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<p>If you ask him, Juan Ortiz would tell you that he rarely votes in local elections.</p>
<p>But now that that two of the candidates in the City of San Diego special mayoral election are Latinos, he said he’s definitely going to the polls on November 19.</p>

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<p>Si le preguntas, Juan Ortiz te dirá que rara vez vota en las elecciones locales.</p>
<p>Pero ahora que dos de los candi-datos en la elección especial para alcalde de la Ciudad de San Diego son latinos, dijo que definitivamente va a salir a las urnas el 19 de noviembre.</p>
<p>“Tenemos que representar, ¿verdad?”, dijo Ortiz cerca de Chicano Park esta semana, en el corazón de Barrio Logan.</p>

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<strong>New America Media</strong></p>

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<p>Mexicans, more than most races, seem preoccupied with death. Since colonial times Mexican laborers have continuously been uprooted, travelling thousands of miles from the interior of Mexico forging an El Camino Real to to mining camps and plantations in northern Mexico. They arrived in places like Zacatecas where they fanned out, forging spider web corridors in form of roads.</p>
<p>These workers felt vulnerable. They missed home, and most knew that they would never see their homes or families again.</p>