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		<title>Entre Comadres</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Angelica Jimenez&#8211;
Thousands of Latinas come to the United States each year in hopes of building better lives for their families, but the transition is not an easy one.  Language barriers, lack of job training resources and unfamiliarity with the system can be overwhelming.  But a new partnership between League of United Latin American Citizens [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://latina-voices.com/wp04/2010/03/10/entre-comradres/</link>
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		<title>Shades of identity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jan Peña-Davis &#8211;
“My bad, girl, I thought you were black.”
Fifteen-year-old Delisha Lopez recounts as she remembers how her new locker partner greeted her at the start of this school year.
A sophomore student at Roberto Clemente Community Academy in gentrified Humboldt Park, Delisha fidgets as she twists a strand of short, dark, brown wavy hair, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://latina-voices.com/wp04/2010/03/08/shades-of-identity/</link>
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		<title>Mujeres Asesinas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jenny Patiño &#8211;
Author’s Disclaimer: Don’t go killing anyone.  It doesn’t end well.  Not on television.  Not in real life.  Not even on television inspired by real life.
That being said, I am a connoisseur of televised murder. The “CSI” and “Law &#38; Order” franchises, and “Criminal Minds,” with all their sexy and savvy detectives. Oxygen’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://latina-voices.com/wp04/2010/03/05/mujeres-asesinas/</link>
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		<title>Sin Nombre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Benita Zepeda&#8211;
In the 2009 film “Sin Nombre”, there are many themes that are apparent throughout the film. Some of those themes consist of gang culture, where a “brotherhood” is placed before the law.
Then there are themes of love.  Love that is lost, found, concealed and destroyed. There are moments where families are torn apart [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://latina-voices.com/wp04/2010/03/01/sin-nombre/</link>
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		<title>Latinas lose out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Angelica Jimenez&#8211;
Latinas are losing a desperately need program providing culturally competent reproductive health and family planning because of harassment and intimidation from pro-life groups. Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast has succumbed to pressures from pro-life groups by ending its program, La Promesa While the need for these services is clear, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://latina-voices.com/wp04/2010/02/23/latinas-lose-out/</link>
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		<title>Deliciosa!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Natalia Avilez&#8211;

“Barriga llena corazón contento” is a Spanish proverb when translated means a full stomach, a happy heart.  For celebrity, author and chef- Ingrid Hoffman, she has turned this metaphor into her reality.
Hoffman, 44, started her entertainment career as a soap-opera star over 20 years ago in her homeland Colombia.  After  marrying a “foreigner” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://latina-voices.com/wp04/2010/02/15/deliciosa/</link>
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		<title>Brown kids in brochures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jenny Patiño&#8211;
Latino students are looking for the same things other students look for in a college, according to Ana Maria Soto, the executive director of Latino Initiatives at National Louis University in Chicago.
“They’re looking for value in their education&#8211;a way to make a living and follow their dreams,” she says.
Soto is no stranger to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://latina-voices.com/wp04/2010/02/05/brown-kids-in-brochures/</link>
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		<title>Latinas struggling with weight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Luz Garcia&#8211;
Georgia Hernandez, 20, a student says she has an image in her head of what she should look like and when she sees herself in the mirror she feels she is overweight.
“Sometimes I don’t feel attractive after I eat,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I don’t feel guilty about eating either. It’s when I’m trying on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://latina-voices.com/wp04/2010/02/01/latinas-struggling-with-weight/</link>
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		<title>Defying expectations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Angelica Jimenez&#8211;
Maria Cardenas leads a full life-she juggles four different jobs, a serious relationship, social commitments with a multitude of friends and raises six cats-but children are not a part of this picture.
Cardenas, 47, is one of a minority of Latinas who have made the decision to either delay starting a family or not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://latina-voices.com/wp04/2010/01/27/defying-expectations/</link>
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		<title>One poet who won&#8217;t be boxed in</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jenny Patiño &#8211;
According to Cuban-American poet Rita María Martínez, if you attend one of her readings “expecting that every poem is going to have coconuts in it, or mangos, or that every poem is going to be an exile poem then you are going to be disappointed.”
But you will be pleasantly surprised.
This November 18, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://latina-voices.com/wp04/2010/01/25/one-poet-who-wont-be-boxed-in/</link>
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