Latino Friends: FERRRRNANDO VENTURA ROLLING ON KZQZ-FM
FERRRRRRRRRRRRNANDO. You've got to get that rolled R just right.In only three months since he became the morning man on KZQZ-FM (95.7), they've become a trademark. FERRRRRRRRRRRRRNANDO.There you go.Fernando Ventura says his rolled ''R'' came about as an accident.He was told by a program director in Austin, Texas, that he should try to sound Hispanic, even though he's Italian. He asked some...
Latino Friends: Minorities fund helps future cops
SALT LAKE CITY - Ever since Manuel Escoto was a boy in Palm Springs, Calif., he wanted to be a police officer. He hoped to make something of his life, even when many of his Latino friends turned to drugs. A 7-year-old scholarship program targeting Utah's minorities made his law-enforcement career possible. Escoto is now a Wellington police officer on the central Utah city's four-member force."I wanted to set an example," said the 33-year-old...
Latino Friends: <sp!>Ay, caliente!
Salsa, merengue and other Latin music take center stage for the first Latin Grammy Awards. TAMPA - Kids who don't habla a lick of Espa¤ol are singing "A Puro Dolor," wearing their hair like Jennifer Lopez and dressing like Ricky Martin.Their Latino friends, meanwhile, have developed a certain swagger to their walk. They boast about Puerto Rico or Cuba or Colombia, ticking off the reasons why this one or that is best. They patiently teach the eager...
Latino Friends: LULAC Dinner to Honor Ezell Angers Santa Ana Chapter
Harold Ezell, the top immigration official in the West, may have gained scores of new Latino friends with his sombrero-toting support of the amnesty program last year. But he probably could not find too many amigos within the League of United Latin American Citizens--or LULAC--some of whose members have been calling for Ezell's ouster.Unless, that is, the western regional commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service happens to be in Bellflower, whose local...
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Feature comically probes the prospect of a California suddenly devoid of Latinos.
Imagine waking up one morning to discover that all Latinos in California have vanished.No Mexicans. No Guatemalans. No Hondurans. No Argentines.The state is in a panic. Fruits and vegetables are rotting. Your favorite newscaster is missing. The nanny does not show up. The Border Patrol has nothing to do. People who miss their Latino friends hold vigils with signs saying, "Come back, amigos." Is it the Rapture? Were Latinos kidnapped by aliens?This is the...