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Oscar Argueta, of Mt. Pleasant, Ia., is the publisher of the Spanish-language newspaper El Heraldo Hispano and a supporter of presidential candidate Mitt Romney.  Argueta was at his candidate’s recent appearance in Washington, Ia.

Following Romney’s short speech, Argueta posed a question on moral values which gave the former Massachusetts governor a chance to talk about [...]

With aid from the Marshall County Sheriff, the Marshalltown Police Department arrested 16 people in Grinnell last Friday under forgery and identification theft charges.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokeperson Greg Palmore said that ICE provided expertise, “assistance and administration processing,” to local police but did not initiate the investigation.

Warrants had been prepared for 26 [...]

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd (from Connecticut) have agreed to participate in a presidential debate conducted in Spanish.
The debate is scheduled for Sept. 9 at the University of Miami and will be hosted by Univision Communications, Inc., the nation’s largest Spanish-language broadcaster. The network’s programming is available in most Iowa [...]

One of the more influential venues for discussion and debate in western Iowa’s burgeoning Hispanic community is published in Carroll.

The 1-year-old Spanish-language paper, La Prensa (The Press), is a family operation, the product of an ambitious mother-son team originally from Nicaragua but with deepening roots in Carroll.