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The Founder, Editor and Publisher of AL DIA in his early days interviewing a resident of North Philadelphia. Photo  AL DÍA News

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Turned down 3 times

Undeterred, I started AL DÍA as a home-based, one-man newspaper operation in North Philadelphia
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Las personas no vacunadas tienen 25 veces más probabilidades de ser hospitalizadas debido al COVID, ocho veces más probabilidades de desarrollar síntomas si se contagian y tres veces más probabilidades de contagiarse en primer lugar. Depositphotos
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Delta: A great vax motivator
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Restoring our History
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In countries such as Colombia, the medical marijuana business contrasts with the fight against drug trafficking, which involves peasants in remote areas who have no other option for survival.   Depositphotos
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From a drug war to medicine
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Immigrants prepare to cross the Rio Grande into Texas on August 14, 2021 in Roma, Texas. Recent U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures show more than 200,000 people were apprehended at the border in July, the highest number in 21 years. More than 82,000 of those were family members traveling together.   John Moore/Getty Images
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setback for migration
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AL DIA will celebrate the brave men and women who, in the best of the American traditions, have started companies in the U.S. after coming as immigrants from overseas. This acknowledgment will take place during the upcoming month of November when,  by federal mandate, Entrepreneurship Month is celebrated throughout this country.  (Photo Depositphoto)
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Wealth is Yours — Take it!
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Allied troops in Afghanistan accelerate their exit from the country. Photo: Getty Images
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What Afghanistan teaches us
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En dos años y medio, el presidente de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, ha tomado decisiones que afectan significativamente las condiciones de la región amazónica. La deforestación ha alcanzado niveles históricos, en tanto que el presupuesto para programas medioambientales se ha reducido significativamente.  Gettyimages
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Bolsonaro, the predator
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Armando Jimenez Carbarin, an organizer with Make the Road Pennsylvania, speaks during a protest on the steps of the Berks County Services Building in Reading, PA. Gettyimages
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No on Immigrant Prison
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To reach its full potential as a city, Philadelphia must eliminate racism against Latino population. From left to right the featured 40 Under 40 2021 honorees: Noel Ramirez, Natasha Daniela De Lima, Melvin Smith y Maridarlyn Gonzalez.   Harrison Brink/AL DÍA News
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The Uprooting of Racism | OP
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The Haitian tragedy has its origins in the very circumstances of its independence and diplomatic pressure in the 19th century. It requires fundamental solutions and not just the usual palliatives from the international community.  Gettyimages
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The misfortunes of Haiti
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La Fundación GABO ha existido por 26 años, todo el tiempo bajo el liderazgo del Director General, Jaime Abello Banfi (a la derecha). A la izquierda al fundador y CEO de AL DIA, Hernán Guaracao Calderón. Al centro, un poster de García Márquez. AL DIA News Media
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García, The Journalist
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2020 (Inaugural class) and 2021 AL DÍA 40 Under Forty Honorees   AL DÍA News
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Why our 40 under 40
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A man looks at one of the first documents published by the United Nations, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was ratified in 1948.   Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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Even Mozart had to practice
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Whatever variants there are around the world, they’re coming across that southern border.”  Gettyimages
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IMMIGRATION IMPASSE | OP-ED
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From left to right, Jaime Abello Banfi, “Director General” of “Fundación GABO” since its inception by García Márquez and his wife, Mercedes Barcha, “La GABA”. In the middle, back in the wall picture, writer Alvaro Cepeda Samudio, benign welcome by Gabo in Barranquilla after Cepeda Samudio finished his Master Degree in Journalism in NYC’s Columbia University. Migue.. Is in the middle. Yours truly, to the right, a man inspired by all of these brave men. (Photo AL DIA/August 10, 2021/Selfie).
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Gabo, Jaime and Me | OP-ED
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El ya fallecido presidente de Haití, Jovenel Moise, asiste a los funerales del ex presidente haitiano René Preval, que falleció el 3 de marzo de 2017 a la edad de 74 años, en la zona de Champ de Mars de Puerto Príncipe, Haití, el 11 de marzo de 2017.  Foto  Gettyimages
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From Tragedy to Triumph
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Haiti’s late President Jovenel Moise attend a funeral service for the late former Haitian president Rene Preval who passed away on March 3, 2017 at the age of 74, at the Champ de Mars area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on March 11, 2017.  Gettyimages
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From Tragedy to Triumph
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Put in balance the life of Ambassador Manuel Torres is much more wondrous, and much more meaningful for us Americans of Latino descent in the 21st Century, than., all due respect to Linn Manuel, Alexander Hamilton. Recent controversy about the casting for the movie signal how the telling of our own history continue to scape our control. Left, Ambassador Manuel Torres, as drawn by Colombian painter Miguel Torres. Right, Lin Manuel Miranda in his Broadway role as "Hamilton" .Miguel Torres / Gettyimages
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I remain in journalism