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Saying sorry is not enough. That’s the message Mexican human rights and women’s activists are sending to the US-based cosmetics company MAC. At a Mexico City press conference this week, activists announced a boycott of MAC to protest the trendy company’s unveiling last month of a new product line that stirred memories of the Ciudad Juarez women’s murders. 

In flashy form, the lipsticks and nail polishes were dubbed “Ghost Town,” Quinceanera,” “Factory,” and  “Juarez,” among others. 

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Chicago White Sox Manager Ozzie Guillen called out Major League Baseball (MLB) on August 1st&nbsp;for providing translators for players arriving from Asia but not for Spanish-speaking Latinos. Asking, “Why do we have a Japanese interpreter but not a Spanish one?” Guillen criticized the racial double standard whereby Major League Baseball provides special services to the handful of Asian-born players but does nothing to ease the transition for the many Spanish-speakers from the Dominican Republic and elsewhere.</p>

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<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; </strong>Érase una vez, dos senadores republicanos dieron la impresión de tener sentido común y de querer enmendar la maltrecha relación de su partido con la comunidad y los votantes hispanos de Estados Unidos.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Forty years ago, workers in the United States won a great victory.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; On July 29, 1970, the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) ended its successful grape boycott when the growers agreed to sign the first contract with the union.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; It seemed like an improbable outcome, as the battle pitted a mostly Mexican as well as Filipino immigrant work force against powerful agricultural growers in California.</p>