NEW ORLEANS, March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Pan-American Life Insurance Group (PALIG), a leading provider of life and health insurance in Latin America and the US Hispanic market, today announced financial results for the full year ending December 31, 2011.
Revenues grew 9.8 percent to $470 million,...
Martin Luther King leads the historic Selma-Montgomery march in 1965. By Felicia Persaud
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. March 2, 2012: Who would have thought it? In 2012, 47 years after the Selma to Montgomery march, Blacks and Latinos would be re-fighting the fight for civil rights in Alabama, taking...
By Felicia Persaud
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Feb. 24, 2012: It’s a drama not even a Telemundo soap opera writer could have conceived. And no, it’s no “Harry Met Sally” film. This drama is action packed, rated R and comedic too. It’s all about “Stomp Out The Illegal Aliens” hardliner,...
By Felicia Persaud
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Feb. 17, 2012: The term “Piranha” is defined as any of several tropical American freshwater fishes that are voraciously carnivorous and often attack and destroy living animals. The word came to mind this week as I sought for a description of...
By Felicia Persaud
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Feb. 10, 2012: Recently, my cousin Michael brought to my attention a posting on the wall of a Republican/Tea Party Facebook “friend” showing a photo of the 9/11 terror attack that purported that it was “illegal aliens” who brought terror on...
By Felicia Persaud
On the last day of January, a Republican U.S. lawmaker in Congress introduced a bill that can only be regarded as dumb.
U.S. Representative Diane Black, (R-TN), used January 31st to introduce H.R. 3842. The bill, that comes on the heels of a report that Alabama’s controversial immigration...
By Felicia Persaud
Dear President Obama,
It’s a New Year so wanted to offer you some advice going into the November general election. Take it from one immigrant to the son of another – don’t listen to the claims of the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action and take the...
By Felicia Persaud
This past year, several organizations have released data to prove that immigrants are truly important in driving economic growth and innovation in America. Not only are they laborers, but as the National Foundation for American Policy, a non-profit, non-partisan public policy research...
By Felicia Persaud
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Dec. 16, 2011: International rights group, Human Rights Watch, is the latest organization to slam the Jim Crow-like Alabama immigration law, and rightfully so. But like the U.S. Justice Department, HRW seems to be afraid to call the Beason-Hammon...
MIAMI, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — HBO Latin America announced its 2012 lineup, which includes big screen hits, award-winning original TV series and other acclaimed productions. Blockbuster titles such as Harry Potter & the Deadly Hollows Parts 1 and 2, Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger...
