Microsoft announced the appointment of Mariana Castro, as the new Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Operations for Latin America, after Paula Bellizia announced her interest to pursue new personal endeavors.
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Posted Friday, October 23rd 2020 at 1:35PM
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Once a Marine, always a Marine. I served five years in the 5th Battalion, 11th Marines as a platoon sergeant and martial arts instructor with two tours in Afghanistan. Today, if I meet another Marine, we automatically connect. It’s like a magnet, we’ ...
Posted Friday, October 23rd 2020 at 1:33PM
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I am a proud Mexican American woman. I grew up in a rural town in California’s Central Valley where 80 percent of the population is first-generation Mexican American or Mexican. But as close as I am to my roots and my heritage, I struggled with not feeling Latina enough ...
Posted Friday, October 23rd 2020 at 1:32PM
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In order to be respected in life, you have to be either a doctor or a lawyer.
That is what my parents always told me as a little girl growing up in Cuba. But when we moved to Los Angeles, as a teenager I ran into nothing but doubt when I said I wanted to be a lawyer. ...
Posted Friday, October 23rd 2020 at 1:30PM
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What do I love about being Latinx? We bring passion to everything we do!
Since I was born and raised in Venezuela and then immigrated to the United States where I lived in Miami, Florida, I have always been surrounded by my heritage. Growing up, ...
Posted Friday, October 23rd 2020 at 1:22PM
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“I’m not the right fit for this job,” I explained to the hiring manager. Although the Community Development Specialist position seemed like my ideal job, I panicked when I found out I was pregnant. If I wanted to raise a family, I thought I couldn’t ...
Posted Friday, October 23rd 2020 at 1:19PM
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Watching the sun set over Havana while savoring a prototypical, when-in-Cuba experience — sipping a mojito and smoking a Cohiba on the grounds of the iconic Hotel Nacional — it dawned on me how much the city has changed in the 25 years since my last ...
Posted Friday, June 10th 2016 at 4:04PM
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How do you throw a celebration in the midst of a financial crisis?
According to the National Puerto Rican Day Parade board, by educating a community and standing together with the island of Puerto Rico. ...
Posted Friday, June 10th 2016 at 3:59PM
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The Puerto Rican Day Parade has had myriad special guests over the years, but none like this.
Santurce, Puerto Rico, native Stephanie Llanes, 28, a recent University of California, Berkeley, School of Law graduate, will be donning patriotic polye ...
Posted Friday, June 10th 2016 at 3:56PM
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A California man who was beaten by anti-Donald Trump protesters at the candidate’s rally in San Jose recently says that coming out as gay was not nearly as difficult as declaring his support for the real estate mogul.
In an interview with Fox News ...
Posted Friday, June 10th 2016 at 3:42PM
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