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Carlos Arguello is blending his rural Iowa upbringing with a rich Latino lineage to help an icon of American agriculture move further into emerging markets.

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin says he’s an unabashed supporter of U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., as Barack Obama’s running mate. Meanwhile, Harkin, who ran for the presidency himself in 1992, says “realism” holds that Hillary Clinton has little chance of making the cut for vice presidential candidate as “latent” sexism and racism would give such a ticket perhaps too steep a cultural hill to climb.

A Pew Hispanic Center poll shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama leading GOP standard bearer John McCain by wide margin in the Latino community and reversing a Republican tide in the Hispanic community earlier in the decade.
Hispanic registered voters support Democrat Barack Obama for president over Republican John McCain by 66% to 23%, according to [...]

By LORENA LOPEZ and DOUGLAS BURNS

DENISON — Several frightened Hispanics, some crying with kids clearly in the background, made frantic telephone calls to a western Iowa Spanish-language paper over the last two days seeking information on what they mistakenly believed to be the start of a Postville-style raid in Denison, a community with a burgeoning [...]

DENISON — An Ames-based immigration attorney told a crowd of nearly 100 Hispanics at the St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Denison that she expects more raids to follow the historic one earlier this month in Postville — and perhaps soon.

“It’s difficult to predict the future, but it’s going to be a long summer,” [...]

By DOUGLAS BURNS and PAUL RUTHERFORD

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — On NBC’s coverage of the Run for the Roses you see high-hatting swells in the between-the-spires seats, the celebrities with mint julep drinks.

The cocktail-and-croquet set is intriguing, to be sure.

This is a big money event in a big money nation.

Thousands are spent on prime seats. Bettors wagered [...]

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Bill Richardson took questions in both English and Spanish during a stop in heavily Hispanic West Liberty Saturday.

“I’m the only Hispanic candidate,” Richardson told the crowd of about 50 at El Torito Restaurant, “but I gotta tell people because of the name Richardson.”  He offered only a couple lines of the main speech in Spanish [...]

DENISON – Faith and pageantry walked hand in hand through St. Rosa of Lima Parish last weekend as more than 300 Hispanic Roman Catholics celebrated the feast of Guadalupe – a signature event in their culture.

Today, Dec. 12, is the official feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, but the Rev. Paul Kelly, pastor of [...]