Tag Archives: Viviana Hurtado
¡One of Forbes.com’s Top Online Political Influencers!
December 3, 2012
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I was minding my own business when my reputation manager (aka Mami who monitors the internet searching for axe-wielding interNUTS who seek to do her daughter harm) tipped me off to the Forbes.com article that listed me among the top politics Read More...
Date with History: My More Magazine Interview with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
November 19, 2012
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Note from your Blogger-in-chief: I am resurrecting this post and the accompanying Q & A with Nobel peace laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (DASSK), which was first published in More Magazine in May of 2010, because of President Obama’s Read More...
Latino Voters: ¿Obama Claus or Mitt Romney?
November 16, 2012
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Does anyone remember the iconic ”Don’t Speak?” scenes in Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway” when Dianne Wiest orders John Cusack’s to be quiet? No one likes to be chiteado, especially women and Latinas. For good reason: in many contexts, our voices and Read More...
Petraeus Escándalo Boils Down to El Hombre Propone y la Mujer Dispone
November 15, 2012
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When I read on Twitter that Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director David Petraeus resigned days after the re-election of Barack Obama, I assumed the decorated retired Army general had done so because he no longer wanted to serve under this President. Read More...
¡Viviana Hurtado’s The Wise Latina Club LATISM 2012 Best Politics Blog!
November 14, 2012
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You did it again! You helped make The Wise Latina Club Latinos in Social Media (LATISM)‘s 2012 Best Politics Blog for the second year in a row. LATISM is a special community, bringing together Hispanics from all walks of life, working on a variety of issues Read More...
¡The Wise Latina Club 2012 Blogs by Latinas Best News Blog!
November 13, 2012
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Amigos, some great news. The Wise Latina Club was awarded the 2012 Favorite News Blog by Blogs by Latinas, an online directory of more than 2000 blogs world-wide, written by Hispanic women for the second year in a row. This recognition is Read More...
The Latino Vote: The Way Forward
November 12, 2012
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The day after the election a friend posted on my Facebook page, the “Latino Vote –unfrigginbelievable.” She’s right. Many factors contributed to President Obama’s re-election. But few are as important as the Latino vote. Hispanics made up 10 percent of Read More...
Latinos Vote: the Leader of the Pack
November 8, 2012
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Coalition. Networks. Alliance. These are all terms that in a political context mean the relationships forged among groups, forming a pact to further an agenda. It’s a power play meant to force an outcome. Representation, respect, access, money can be Read More...
