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Millward Brown, in conjunction with BrandAnalytics and WPP, today announce the inaugural BrandZ Top 50 Most Valuable Latin American Brands.

The value of the BrandZ Latam Top 50 is dominated by retail, financial, communication, beer and energy brands.

Petrobras, the Brazilian energy giant, topped the ranking with a brand value of $10.6 billion. The remainder of the Top 5 consists of brands from the financial and communications categories.

Brazil, the world's sixth largest economy, is the most dom

The Castilla-La Mancha US Tour will stop in San Francisco, San Diego, and Seattle in July
Featuring Tasting Seminars and a Walk-Around Grand Tasting in Each City

New York, June 21, 2012 – After a well-received tour through Atlanta, Chicago and New York in May, the wineries of Castilla-La Mancha look forward to bringing their distinctive wines to the West Coast during the week of July 9th. Just as local ‘celebrity’, Don Quixote, traveled through his region seeking adventure and noble experiences,

The rise in the influence of the Hispanic business community has not gone unnoticed in the tourism industry.

Latinos are gaining footholds in a variety of industries in Southern Nevada, and airlines are creating connections to the south to help foster those growing business relationships.

While the population centers of Mexico have always been fertile ground for direct flights, big plans are on the horizon to reach into Central and South America with connecting service that should open new marke

The Houston piñata controversy started with a few signs.

At parks in the northwestern reaches of Houston's Harris County, alongside the "Leash law will be enforced" and "No littering" warnings, authorities have posted signs saying, "No piñatas allowed" and "No confetti eggs."

Recently, Latino activists took issue with the signs, which they insist unfairly target Mexican Americans, because piñatas and confetti eggs, or cascarones, are popular Mexican party favors.

" ‘Piñatas prohibited' is not a

The importance of the Hispanic vote to President Barack Obama’s re-election chances is practically impossible to overstate. Yet the significance of the Hispanic vote to the long-term prospects of the Republican Party is arguably greater still.

A Latino Decisions poll of 5 swing states released June 17 revealed that Obama’s executive action to ease the pressure on young illegal immigrants, enabling them to avoid deportation and apply for work permits, has resonated with Hispanic voters.

A previou

President Obama has new campaign ads on health care, and they're in Spanish.

The new spots, featuring Hispanic television host Cristina Saralegui, are airing in three states where the Latino could make the difference for Obama's re-election: Florida, Colorado and Nevada.

"President Obama's new health care law guarantees that by 2014 the vast majority of Hispanics will have access to quality, affordable health insurance," Saralegui says in the new ads.

That assumes, of course, that the Supreme Co

For all the latinas who dreamed of starring in a telenovela, Suave Professionals® set out to make one lucky winner's wishes come true! Creating a "first-ever" landmark in TV sponsorship Unilever and Univision Network have taken their creative partnership to the next level. Suave Professionals®, as the official hair care sponsor of "El Talisman," offered one lucky fan the opportunity to win a walk-on role, setting a new standard and making history in the U.S. Hispanic marketing industry.

"For 50

These are not the tired, poor, huddled masses of your grandparents’ generation.

They are the most educated and wealthiest immigrants in U.S. history, happier than the general public with their lives and more optimistic about the direction of the country.

And now, Asian Americans are the fastest-growing wave of immigrants in the United States, surpassing Hispanics, according to a survey released today by the Pew Research Center.

"It has happened somewhat under the radar screen," Paul Taylor, exec

MiTu Network https://www.youtube.com/mitu which successfully launched on April 30, reported today that the new digital video network on YouTube, exclusively dedicated to Latin lifestyle content for today's Hispanic women, is quickly garnering an impressive critical mass. To date, the network has 83 dedicated Latino lifestyle channels, compiled over 11,000 videos, 780,000 network subscribers, over 260 million total network views, and more than 20 million monthly network views. Furthermore, Beatriz

Daddy Yankee was at a Verizon store located at Brickyard Mall on June 13 to promote the "My Fabulous Quince" composition contest.

Verizon offers to pay all the party expenses, a higher education scholarship, and the presence of famous urban singer Daddy Yankee at the winner's cotillion party. The young women may send compositions until July 31, 2012 online at www.myfabulousquince.com

In 1972, Raul Soto immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico, expecting to work for only a few years before returning to his home country.

Forty years later, the 69-year-old former fruit picker is growing old in America.

"I still think about going back to Mexico, but I have never returned," said Soto, now a U.S. citizen. "I never thought I would stay in this country, but I did."

In Washington state, the number of older Hispanic or Latino people now tops 20,000 — twice the number in 2000, according to d

Jobita Hernandez has been looking forward to today for a long time.

This morning, with a salsa band providing festive and fitting music, the businesswoman will snip a ribbon commemorating her business's most recent expansion, this time to a cavernous space in Bluffton's Sheridan Park.

Seemingly more like an airplane hangar than a store, the 22,000-square-foot El Super International dwarfs neighbors such as Sonic and KFC in a symbolic affirmation of the ascension of local, Hispanic-owned business

The number of Latino children and youth under 20 years of age diagnosed with diabetes is growing at an alarming rate -- the fastest of any ethnic group in the U.S.

It might be hard to tell a chubby-cheeked gordito that he can have only one helping of flan after dinner, but doctors say a healthy diet and good exercise habits are the key to fixing one of the Latino community's scariest health problems.

A new study released by research affiliates with the American Diabetes Association found that th

Anna Maria Chávez took over as the country’s chief Girl Scout last November. She's the first Latina to head the 3.2 million member organization.

Chávez grew up in the tiny town of Eloy, Ariz., between Phoenix and Tucson. And, of course, she was in a troop.

“I went away for the first time to go camping without my family. That was a huge thing," she recalled during a recent visit to San Diego. "And since that point it really charged me up to think about boundaries outside of Eloy.”

Chávez went to

The story of population growth in the United States is a story about Latinos reshaping our landscape. Over the past decade, they have accounted for 56% of America’s growth, now reaching 16% of the population, or more than 50 million citizens, even surpassing African-Americans to become the country’s biggest minority group. Latinos are certainly making their voices and preferences heard.

Such a phenomenon can also be seen in the showbiz world, as we’re finally starting to see a positive shift in

Reaching out to a fast-growing population of young Latinos is key to the country’s economic future, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis said Friday in Des Moines.

A conversation with more than three dozen people from area Latino communities focused on jobs, a topic of intense interest among Hispanics across the country, Solis said.

To reach the next generation of Americans entering the workforce, Solis said her department has launched a social media campaign to connect people with job search res

Although 20% of the US Population is Latino, only 2% of all healthcare executives are prepared to address Latino healthcare challenges. The Association of Hispanics Healthcare Executives (AHHE), together with politicians, policy makers, and healthcare leaders, is providing a unique healthcare dialogue and solutions for the Latino community at its 2012 Annual Healthcare Diversity Awards Gala. Keynote Speaker, Commissioner of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Thomas Farley, MD, MPH,

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FOR RELEASE: June 13, 2012

TALE OF THREE SEGREGATIONS
Poor other-race neighbors contribute to poverty of Black and Hispanic neighborhoods

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Unlike most whites, blacks and Hispanics tend to have neighbors from other racial groups who are disproportionately likely to be poor. This contributes importantly to the high poverty rates of the neighborhoods lived in by black

Nova Southeastern University (NSU) was recently ranked as the number one institution in the nation for the number of doctoral degrees awarded to Hispanic students. The ranking was published in the Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine's 2012 "Top 100 Colleges for Hispanics" edition.

For the fourth consecutive year, NSU earned the top spot on the list for doctoral degrees awarded in such high-demand fields as education, business, psychology, dental medicine, law, osteopathic medicine and

Who is Latino? Who counts as Native American?

The debate over who is considered a minority was brought to the spotlight by the Senate race in Massachusetts. Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren claimed she had Native American heritage, but there's no records to indicate that. Still, Warren insists that she learned of her background through family stories and that she is proud of her heritage.

Today, The New York World ran a story that talks about the real-world implications of these questions.