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Well-nourished babies in Honduras look like well-nourished babies everywhere--plump, active, alert. In rural Honduran towns, there's now one more way to identify them: look for a little blue pin next to their names on one of Vicky Alvarado's healthy-eating charts. A child earning one of those is a child getting a fair shot at life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nutritionist | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

That never sat right with Alvarado. A native Honduran, she graduated with degrees in primary school education and nursing, then traveled to the U.S. to earn her master's in nutrition at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. All this made her uniquely qualified to tackle the dearth of nutrition education in her home country--something she got a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nutritionist | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

...mostr? preferencia. Tal gama de opiniones y prioridades se refleja en la lista de Time de los 25 hispanos m?s influyentes en Estados Unidos, que incluye a celebridades como Jennifer L?pez y el alcalde de Los ?ngeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, y a otros menos conocidos como el activista sindical Pablo Alvarado y la conservadora de arte Mari Carmen Ram?rez. ?sta ?ltima dice que su trabajo es ser la predicadora de la cultura latina. Con estos poderosos hispanos a su lado, no es de extra?ar que su mensaje se est? difundiendo r?pidamente...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los 25 hispanos m?s influyentes de EE.UU. | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

...Pablo Alvarado todav?a recuerda el terror que sinti? hace 13 a?os en Woodland Hills, California, cuando, a?n siendo un joven indocumentado salvadore?o, cinco autos de polic?a con sirenas y luces encendidas lo detuvieron porque los nerviosos residentes de la zona pensaron que ?l era un criminal. Eventualmente Alvarado los convenci? de que estaba all? en busca de un trabajo ofrecido por uno de los vecinos. "Todos los d?as los trabajadores se ven obligados a pasar por cosas como ?stas y peores", dice Alvarado. Como coordinador de la National Day Laborer Organizing Network durante los ?ltimos tres a?os, Alvarado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pablo Alvarado | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

...Latino and 34% had no particular preference. Such a wide array of opinions and agendas is reflected in Time's list of the nation's 25 most influential Hispanics, who range from celebrities like J. Lo and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to the lesser-known labor activist Pablo Alvarado and art curator Mari Carmen Ram"rez. She says her job is to be an evangelist for Latino culture. With these 24 powerful Hispanics at her side, no wonder word is spreading fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 25 Most Influential Hispanics in America | 8/13/2005 | See Source »

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