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<p>Remember your very first and official Fathers Day celebration?</p>
<p>When you become a Father, you enter something like a special club. You don’t need a secret handshake nor do you have to wear crazy-looking headgear. However, you can feel an acknowledgement and if you’re lucky, you’ll also feel appreciation.</p>

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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Many are those who know that it was Mexican president, Vicente Guerrero, who said,”Mi patria es primero – my motherland comes first,” – but few realize the man who abolished slavery in 1829 was of African heritage.</span></p>

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<p>They say that if you tell a mejicano there is no God, he may shrug his shoulders and go about his way.</p>
<p>God forbid you tell him that the Virgen de Guadalupe was merely a Spanish story made-up by los conquistadores to speed-up Catholicism in the New World. Ah, good luck with that.</p>

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<p>As we come to the conclusion of the 2012 National Hispanic Heritage Month, America’s second most powerful political personality, said, “The Hispanic population in this country is the most powerful force in American politics.”</p>
<p>Ahem. Perhaps figures like 52 million, 16.7 percent, one-third and 2050 helped nudge VP Joe Biden a tad to utter such a phrase in front of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on a recent evening in D.C.</p>