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...What can I tell you about Pedro Infante? If you're a Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who he is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos. If your racial and cultural ethnicity is Other, then it's about time you learned about the most famous of Mexican singers and actors." -Denise Chavéz, from her 2002 novel Loving Pedro Infante...
...Infante was an ornament of Mexico's Golden Age (La é poca de Oro del Cine Mejicano), a two-decade stretch of potent moviemaking. While the U.S. industry was importing Latin Americans like Ricardo Montalban, Carmen Miranda, José Iturbi and Fernando Lamas, Mexican beauty Dolores del Rio left Hollywood and returned home to join such new stars as Cantinflas, Pedro Armend?riz, Mar?a Félix and Infante's friendly rival in the singing hunk sweepstakes, Jorge Negrete. Emilio "El Indio" Fern?ndez was directing movies that won international prizes, like the Cannes Palme d'Or. A renegade from Franco...
...Establecido en Los ?ngeles, Gonz?lez, hijo de un inmigrante mejicano que cargaba camiones en una f?brica de Coca-Cola en Orange, CA, percibe su presupuesto de $4 millones anuales de varias fundaciones y empresas, incluso State Farm y Telemundo Communications. SVREP llev? a cabo 300 campa?as de inscripci?n de votantes en 14 estados el a?o pasado, con la ayuda de 700 empleados a sueldo y 10,000 voluntarios. Si los republicanos se quejan de que los votantes reci?n inscritos votan m?s por los dem?cratas, Gonz?lez se?ala el caso de La Florida, donde los esfuerzos de SVREP tuvieron como resultado...
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