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Los mexicanos en Colorado encuentran un poco de casa en su vestimenta colorida Por Michelle Zayed
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as fronteras pueden ser difíciles de cruzar pero la moda es capaz de penetrar barreras, cruces y bloqueos para servir como un medio de expresión de la cultura de personas lejos de su país. Con la celebración del 202avo aniversario de la independencia mexicana a la vuelta de la esquina los mexicanos en Colorado se preparan para demostrar su patriotismo por medio de su vestimenta. Gabriela Martinez una diseñadora de Denver oriunda de México dijo que ella siempre trata de incluir motivos mexicanos en sus diseños. “A mi me gusta usar mucho las flores”, explicó. “Así yo fuera usar unos vestidos de noche a mi me gustan con enlaces y flores”. Una de las piezas tradicionales más hermosas es el huipil, una túnica sin mangas de algodón decorada con detallados bordados de flores usualmente combinada con una falda oscura. Martinez dijo que ha notado que muchos elementos mexicanos como los rebozos se han empezado a usar en las modas alrededor del mundo. “Las mascadas (pañuelos de seda ) y los rebozos que antes no se usaban mucho, ahora están volviendo”, dijo.
El Condado Jefferson anima a vacunarse contra la tos convulsa. Officials encouraging whooping cough immunizations.
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Federal prisons lock up Latinos at higher rate than Colorado prisons By Nancy Lofholm, The Denver Post
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decade ago, there were 3,578 adult Latinos in Colorado’s state prisons. At the end of the last fiscal year, there were more than twice that, according to the Colorado Department of Corrections. Colorado does not have the same problematic numbers
as the federal prison system, where more than half of all prisoners sentenced to time behind bars last year were Latino. But the percentage of Latino prisoners in Colorado does outstrip the size of that population. Colorado’s Latino population now stands at 20.9 percent. In prisons, Latinos account for 33 percent of all those locked up, Colorado
corrections department figures show. Latinos have consistently made up about 30 percent of the state’s prison population for the past decade. Part of that increase in total numbers is due to the increase in the Latino population. But another factor, according to the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform
Coalition, is likely due to the fact that there is more street-level policing in neighborhoods with high Latino populations. “There has been consistent evidence over time that people of color are significantly more likely to be arrested and incarcerated, particularly for drug offenses,” said Christie Donner, executive director of the coalition. Figures for Colorado’s inmate population show some other disparities in prison populations related to race.
African-American males and females now make up 20 percent and 15 percent of their respective prison populations, while that racial group totals only 4.3 percent of Colorado’s population. Meanwhile, Caucasian men and Caucasian women represent 44 percent and 52 percent of their respective prison populations in the state. But Caucasians, who are not identified as of Hispanic descent in the latest U.S. Census report, comprise about 70 percent of the general population in Colorado.