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The amount of plastic waste is immense and affects all parts of the marine world. And the solution?   Depositphoto
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Flooded with plastic
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Left to right) Ashley Edwards, Chris Brennan, Dann Cuellar, and Alex Jakana were the 2021 winners of the “El Habanero Medal of Advocacy.”    Peter Fitzpatrick/AL DÍA News
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Journalists Honoring
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Too many Americans believe that when it comes to climate change, only the government is up to the task.  Depositphoto
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Climate Change
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Nothing indicates that the socioeconomic conditions in Latin America are improving.  The panorama in Honduras. Photo Getty Images
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Poorer, more migration
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Start-ups and individual inventors need assurance that their hard-won IP can’t easily be stolen. Photo: Depositphoto
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An end to theft
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The United States registers the highest number of illegal border crossings with Mexico this year.  Freedom does not make a person superior, only luckier.
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On the lucky shore
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The first advertiser of AL DÍA was “La Manzana”, later renamed “La Fogata”, this bakery in Olney owned by Eduardo Marín, who invested the first $25 dollars into the publication. Photo: La fogata
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An Improbable Entrepreneur
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Expectations for the return of travelers to the United States from countries that were shut out 20 months ago by the pandemic.     Despositphoto
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Winds of economic recovery
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Catholicism in the United States has representatives at the pinnacle of power: President Joe Biden; Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House; and John Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. But there is a strong internal division between two sectors.    Depositphoto
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Church in power but divided
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To the left, the cover of the book that inspired the production of the first edition of AL DIA. On the right, una of the first covers, produced on a newsletter format.   AL DÍA News
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Home-madE JOURNALISM
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Old illustration of old Capitol, burned during the War of 1812, Washington DC.   Getty
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Like more than 200 years ago
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Samhain, the ancient Celtic celebration that commemorates the end of summer and its harvests.  Depositphoto
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The real terror of Halloween
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On this MAC computer, still in the offices of AL DIA in downtown Philadelphia, the first issue of the publication was born in the living room of the founder’s home in North Philly.   AL DÍA News
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Steve Jobs & Journalism
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Latina Equal Pay Day
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The world’s population is aging, but the situation is most noticeable in Europe and the United States. The migration of young people from other latitudes is an alternative.   Gettyimages
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social debts with old age
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There is increasing resistance to the permanence of monuments that evoke the conquest and colonization in America.  Wikipedia
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Columbus Day in extinction
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Not only through the names of places like "Guantánamo" o "Guararé", or through family names like "Guaracao" or "Cabarique", the presence of indigenous cultures from the Americas is visible today. Above, the Guaracao Family, from Galán, Santander, Colombia, descendants from the Guane nation that existed in northeastern Colombia. (Photo AL DIA).
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My Non-Spanish Last Name
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The restrictive measures due to the pandemic have had a strong impact on the economy, social relations and mental health.   Gettyimages
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The Covid’s Way of Sorrows
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The conservative-progressive justices ratio is currently 6-3 Photo Gettyimages
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Injustice under the Law
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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
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Many still ponder the geopolitical, military, economic, cultural, resource and influence power of the united states.  Gettyimages
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The U.S, the end of an era
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This facsimile of the front page of the October 3, 2016 Medellín edition of the Colombian newspaper ADN summarizes what happened in Colombia five years ago with the peace plebiscite.   ADN
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Five years ago, lies won
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They were still my company during my first Winter of living in Philadelphia, unemployed, with my useless Master of Arts Diploma carefully stored away in my Iowa suitcase, with the rent due at the end of the month. Gettyimages
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My Coldest Winter in Philly
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Mildred Gillars, the “Axis Sally” of wartime German propaganda broadcasts, confers with James Laughlin, her attorney, outside district court after testifying  that because she feared for her life she signed a “written oath of allegiance to German” the day after Pearl Harbor.    Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
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Voice of a Redeemed Traitor
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Among those who managed to stay in school during the pandemic, 38% said they had poor or no connection at home.   Depositphoto
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The aftermath of a pandemic
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John Leguízamo, Lin Manuel Miranda and George López are our “early Historians” piecing together  the suppressed chapter of the Great American History. They, of course, need help from the rest of us. Gettyimages
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Latino History is No Joke
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A slave auction in Virginia.  Rischgitz/Getty Images
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Back to school with a debate
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An original painting of Manuel Torres, painted for the occasion by Colombian Miguel Torres (no relationship) will be on display at the Union League this coming Friday.This  is the first original on the Colombian diplomat painted over the past 200 years.  Miguel Torres/ALDía News
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Philadelphia Renaissance
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The 10 Archetypes being honored with the "Ambassador Manuel Torres" award.Photo credit: Maybeth Peralta/AL DÍA News
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Can't be what you can't see
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Norma McCorvey with her Attorney Gloria Allred, 18th September 1990.   Bettmann/Getty Images
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Roe vs. Roe | OP-ED
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20 years ago AL DIA Editors registered the tragedy in NYC with this award-winning cover that compared the tragedy to the end of the world. Armageddon, or the last battle of the end of the world, is the image that crossed our minds trying to figure out what had happened the morning of September 11, 2001.    ALDíA
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My late 9/11 reflection