Word: villaraigosa
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...semanas despu?s de haber sido electo en mayo alcalde de Los ?ngeles, Antonio Villaraigosa viaj? a Washington, donde el p?blico hac?a fila para aclamarlo como el nuevo abanderado del poder latino en el partido dem?crata. Las expectativas eran grandes que su elecci?n como el primer alcalde latino de Los ?ngeles en mas de 130 a?os, diera luz a una nueva era para los latinos, que hist?ricamente han tenido poca representaci?n en la pol?tica. Pero Villaraigosa pronto indic? que sus planes eran para m?s de un grupo ?tnico. En un almuerzo con 200 dirigentes latinos, entre ?stos Anna Escobedo Cabral, tesorera...
...llamados hispanos, s?lo el 17% dijo latino y el 34% no 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...
...choose to be called Hispanic, only 17% said 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...
...Villaraigosa is candid about the mistakes he has made. "My whole life has been one of falling down and getting up again," he says. Born Antonio Villar (he added his wife's surname Raigosa when he married), he grew up watching his father beat his mother and then took his own anger onto the streets, getting into fights. He was kicked out of one school, dropped out of another, and probably would never have graduated if not for Herman Katz, a teacher at Roosevelt High, who plucked him from a remedial English class and propelled him on to graduate from...
...Today Villaraigosa stands out in a city full of stars. He calls L.A. "the city of America's promise and its future." In the end it will be his ability to deliver that future, and not his ethnicity, for which he will be remembered. --With reporting by Jeffrey Ressner/ Los Angeles