Word: latinas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...honored to hear that she's a fan," Toledo said after learning that Obama had worn one of her designs during the campaign. "She chose to wear a dress made by a Latina and made in the U.S.," the designer told the New York Daily News. "She chose to support the industry here...
...headlines. "Miss Narco," blared the tabloid El Metro. "Miss Sinaloa and the Seven Narcos," said the normally high-brow El Universal. She was compared to the heroine of Queen of the South, a fictional work about a beautiful drug trafficker currently being made into a Hollywood movie with celebrated Latina actress Eva Mendes. (See pictures of the center of Mexico's drug-trafficking industry...
...became the first Latina elected to the California state senate, where she successfully pushed through legislation to increase the minimum wage from $4.25 to $5.75 an hour...
...fist, a smile crept across Flores’ face. “I feel incredible,” said the newly-minted president. “But oh my God, now I have to run the UC.” Flores—by her own account the first Latina to assume the UC presidency—won the election in historic fashion, eking out a victory that saw her garner only 66 more first-place votes than her nearest opponent. The election was the closest contest in at least five years, according to election officials. At one point...
...Election Commission declared Flores, the first Latino or Latina president in the UC’s 26-year history, the winner less than a day after suspending her campaign for forging a signature on a list of campaign staff members...