LA COLUMNA VERTEBRAL
El Soporte Informativo Para Millones de Hispanos
Por Luisa Fernanda Montero 

    Mientras escribo estas letras, un fumador confeso y arrepentido, un hombre al que he querido y admirado por años libra su última batalla contra el cáncer de pulmón y se debate entre la vida y la muerte en una unidad de cuidados intensivos. Eso duele y hace pensar.

    Hoy en día uno de cada cinco niños escolares es hispano, y se calcula que en la próxima década los hispanos representarán el 95% del crecimiento de la población adolescente en los Estados Unidos. Muchos de estos niños se encuentran en un riesgo especial de tener un rendimiento académico inferior, repetir el año escolar y abandonar la escuela.

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; In response to a new report out [last week] on families separated by deportation, I have to express my profound disgust with a system that has left more than 5000 citizen children in foster care because their parents were deported. These policies are un-American and deeply troubling.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; During the McCain campaign, as I spoke daily to Hispanic voters, I wondered what needed to be done to win the Hispanic vote, and I quickly realized speaking to them 60 days before the election was a failure, and this was validated on election date.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; How does waiving the Endangered Species Act in Glacier National Park help secure the border?</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Simple. It doesn’t.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Antibiotics, jet travel, the Internet and GPS.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Those are just a few things made possible by military investments that paved the way for mainstream commercial applications benefiting millions of Americans. The same process is going on with the military and renewable energy.&nbsp; And what makes the process today all the more beneficial is the human lives saved and economic gain implementing renewable energy technologies can achieve.&nbsp;</p>

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