This is for  those who may choose to stay silent, frustrated or disillusioned, and are hesitating weather or not to come out to vote on November 8th, 2016.

Latinos in particular, who demonized and/or ignored by either Republicans or Democrats, must not fall this time into the trap of being rendered paralyzed and reduced, once again, despite their growing numbers, into political irrelevance.

In the political dungeon where Latinos have been secluded for decades, unwanted by one party and rejected by the other, while being accused systematically of living illegally in the country, or some other times of being lazy, soft and passive in politics ("pendejos", in Spanish), no progress will happen for the largest minority in the country today, and, as a consequence, for the rest of the nation.

It is up to Latinos, acting on their own, as they did when they marched by the millions in the streets in 2006, in the largest public demonstrations ever seen in the largest U.S. cities, to come out courageously and tip the balance of power in the country, deciding with  big numbers this particular presidential election and evidencing in the final statistics on this "Trump Vs Hillary" contest their true political power.

10 years ago, the 'grito de guerra' was: "Today we march, tomorrow we will vote".

Well, the time has arrived for you, U.S. Citizens of Latino descent, to do, finally, the second.

As we say in America, "It is about time!".. Besides, Enough is enough.

O, en español: "¡Ya es hora!"  "Además, Es más que suficiente."

Remember… Nov. 8th!

Register on time.

Vote early.

And Rule (your own destiny, stopping others from doing it for you, politically speaking...)

There are two unique forms of voter control that the major parties in the United States seem to have devised to keep the fastest growing of voters in the nation, the Latino voters, from fully engaging and voting en masse in U.S. elections.

One is demonizing Latinos or anybody of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, Argentinean, Chilean, Uruguayan, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Bolivian, Ecuadorian, Colombian, or Colombian national descent —as Donald Trump keeps doing— even after the infamous handshake with the Mexican President, and his “Latinos for Trump” charade.

The other, more common among Democrats, is declining to fully address Latinos and Latino issues and avoiding ample, comprehensive and meaningful engagement with Latinos, beyond the closed-door dialogues with the token Latinos from the inner circle, as the Hillary Clinton camp has so far practiced.

It is obvious that the future of the nation is at stake this November 8th, 2016.

Yet the two main Presidential Candidates seem more centered on the tactics of winning and losing points in the opinion polls than the larger, more serious strategy, and larger poll, on the future of the country, now populated not only by White and Blacks, but by ethnic groups of all sorts that, put together, are the new, natural majority in every large city in the nation.

This is the coalition that brought to power the first Black President of the United States, 8 years ago, today even larger and larger with the presence of newly naturalized citizens and registered voters ready to cast that first ballot. Or simply children of immigrants, 'millennials' and 'billennials' (speaking 2 languages), turning 18 years of each by the thousands every day, and eager to have a say in the future of their country.

By the way, Election Day is barely 60 days away.

If Latinos are kept out of the picture on Election Day, either intimidated by the blatant stigmatization that is ongoing from the Republican camp, or the lack of active engagements by Democrats, it seems, very paradoxically, that the 2 parties have finally agreed on something.

Apparently, the rationale goes like this:

“As long as Latinos are kept to a reasonable, manageable percentage (27%, Romney; 71%, Obama) we, the powers that be inside the 2 political parties, could have some form of control over the largest growing segment of the electorate.."

“As long as Latinos are kept to a reasonable, manageable percentage (like the 27% Romney obtained; and/or the 71% Obama was lucky to capture in the 2012 election) we, meaning the party bosses, could have some form control over the largest growing segment of the electorate, postponing the fair sharing of power with their legitimate representatives. 

Bottom line, with results like this, with limited percentages, we could afford to continue controlling Latinos— ignoring them, with free right to safely chastise them, because of "not getting involved," perpetuating the subjugation of the new, necessary vassals in our society.

What an un-American paradox!

This is yet another huge paradox of the current Presidential election 2016:

While the 2 candidates battle over the airwaves for few points of difference in the preference of the public, Latinos, who can tip the balance in favor of either one, are kept at bay, demonized by one candidate and ignored by the other.

Consequence of that? 

Latinos are just a small concern, just a tiny little part of the “electoral coalition” to win... Never, NEVER, Latinos will be part of the “government coalition” to rule over the nation’s wealth and vast government resources...

Latinos are just a small concern, just a tiny little part of the “electoral coalition” to win, one the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump can treat like the Cinderella we will leave for last, last, LAST, minute.

Never, NEVER, Latinos will be part of the “government coalition” to rule over the nation’s wealth and vast government resources. That's is too much for the Party bosses.

Who are those Party bosses, by the way?

Weren't they at the same outsider spot Latinos are today, some decades ago, before they pushed forward and got in their current cozy chairs?

Perhaps they have forgotten their meager origins, from which they pass down to the new comers, with no fear of being questioned by the current obedient Latino leadership, the same humiliating currency of only 1-penny-only representation for this passive minority within the minority.

Ask any Latino today and most likely all of them furiously resent this “Second, 2nd-class minority status.”

Double minority which doubles up the lack of appreciation, it seems.

The 2-party system have probably succeeded in reducing Latinos to be nothing more than a zero to the left on the statistics of this presidential race.

Despite the obvious fact that Latinos are the fastest growing segment of voters in the nation, and they have finally acquired the muscle to basically decide, if they wanted to, who is elected President come Nov 8th. 

That is the big paradox of 2016.

What to do, then?

Latinos must respond with the only resource left: The power of their legally acquired right to vote, one person at a time...

Latinos must respond with the only resource left:

The power of their (so far timidly exercised) legally acquired right to vote, one person at a time.

One person at a time marched 10 years ago, in the Streets of Philadelphia, to one million at a time in a city like Los Angeles.

"Sí se puede." "Yes, we can," to borrow President Obama slogan who brought him into power, who borrowed from Latinos 8 years ago.

"Sí se puede." "Yes, we can," to borrow President Obama's slogan, who borrowed it in turn from Latinos 8 years ago...

From AL DÍA, we are strongly encouraging this disenfranchised community to participate, regardless of individual ideological persuasion.

Democrat? Libertarian? Republican? Green?

Come out in full force and cast your precious individual vote for any one of them who honestly addresses your issues, regardless the language he or she uses. Be particularly cautious with those who use Spanish to ingratiate and, in the process, ignore the issues pending full discussion.

Bottom line:

Don't let others decide your future any more.

"¡No más!" "¡Respeto!" "¡Ya es hora!"

"¡No más!"

High Latino Voter turn-out, as it naturally happens in places like Puerto Rico, or local communities in Mexico, can change for ever the way the Republican Party and the Democratic Party traditionally approach their timid courting of the Latino vote they done on U.S. Latinos  for decades.

It is all about, "¡Respeto!"

High Latino Voter turn-out, as it may happen on Nov. 8th —when Latinos may deliver the knock-out punch and their promise of "Today we March, Tomorrow We Will Vote" of 2006— can change, literally, the future of the United States.

Judgment Day is coming...it is about time Latinos finally wake up and vote.

It is November 8th.

It is about time!, "¡Ya es hora!"

Check voter registration deadline and prepare to make your U.S. citizenship count.

Do it for you, but mainly do it for the others.

Specially those who can't vote, either because they are undocumented— or those many others yet to be born.

Check for upcoming details of Voter's Guide AL DÍA will be unveiling in the upcoming weeks.

For now, this is a link to the online registration in the State of Pennsylvania, and this is the online guide to vote from NALEO, the National Association of Latino Elected Officials.