Alfredo Torres put up with leaky faucets, faulty stoves and rats so noisy inside his Santa Ana apartment that they kept his wife and four children awake at night.
Bank was intended as a place for Latinos to save and borrow in their own community.
The removal of a Spanish-language television station from the basic package of channels available to cable subscribers in Simi Valley has prompted protests from the Latino community there.
It was 1971, a year of opportunity for a group of ambitious, well-connected Mexican-American professionals in Santa Ana.
At a stormy meeting attended by more than 700 Northridge residents, Mayor Tom Bradley and City Councilman Hal Bernson on Sunday promoted different plans for halting crime and blight in a predominantly Latino neighborhood in Northridge.
Almost 30% of all immigrants who apply for citizenship fail on their first try, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Assn. of Latino Elected Officials.
At the first public hearing over the redrawing of Los Angeles City Council district lines, San Fernando Valley Latino leaders testified Friday that they favor creating a district to unite heavily populated Latino communities in the Northeast and Mid-Valley areas.
In January, 1985, Dong Chan Kim had a rendezvous in this border town.
Latino activists hope to establish a political beachhead on the Westside by forming a local chapter of the Mexican American Political Assn.
The general manager of the Coors Distributing Co. in Tustin has received a prestigious community services award from a prominent statewide organization for his work in the county's Latino community.
California, nurtured by the traditions of Spain and Mexico, will probably become increasingly "Hispanicized" in the 21st Century.
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The buyers of the nation's largest chain of Spanish-language TV stations had a simple plan: Create an advisory council of key Hispanic leaders to help improve their ties with the nation's Latino community.
The upcoming City Council election in East Los Angeles and the still-simmering dispute over a Los Angeles speech by Louis Farrakhan illustrate the difficult nature of ethnic politics in this multiethnic city.
In what some hail as a precedent-setting case for the rights of Spanish-speaking labor union members, a federal court judge in Los Angeles has ruled that the predominantly Latino Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, Local 11, must provide Spanish translation at its monthly membership meetings.
Officials at radio station KS-103 here thought a song titled the "Mexican National Anthem" provided cute commentary about the problems of illegal immigration and drug trafficking.
The article regarding brutal force inflicted on Latino citizens by police in Huntington Park brings back memories of similar incidents in the not too distant past in the County of Los Angeles.
The investor group said it made a bid of more than $250 million to buy five Spanish-language television stations, including KMEX of Los Angeles.
In a decision that could affect the way Immigration and Naturalization Service agents apprehend and detain suspected illegal aliens, a Los Angeles federal court judge ruled Wednesday that "all persons of Latin ancestry" lawfully residing in the central judicial district of California could be represented as a class in a...