Yoani Sanchez, 07/13/12

Award-winning Cuban blogger

Just before dawn this morning, the 300-foot-long ship Ana Cecilia docked at the Port of Havana with an unusual cargo: the first maritime shipping direct from the United States to Cuba in more than 50 years.

Eliseo Medina and Bill Burton, 07/13/12

Latino voters are getting a new pitch from his campaign in the form of a Spanish language website and ad that offer a vague answer to the question: "Who is Mitt Romney?"

Gabriel Sanchez Zinny, 07/12/12

Managing Director at Blue Star Strategies in Washington, DC

It looks like a more systematic outreach from the Catholic Church, a general awareness that public schools are not proving the best quality of education and the voucher programs are changing this decreasing dynamic.

Jose Antonio Tijerino, 07/12/12

President and CEO of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation

I've always said great leaders deal in hope. And that's what Maria Teresa does, hope to inspire, educate and mobilize young Latino voters. Hope to provide young Latinos the opportunity to leverage the astounding numbers of our population.

Miguel Columna, 07/12/12

Co-Founder, conPRmetidos

It is obvious to our generation that Puerto Rico is in dire need of similar innovative and evidence-based models and programs to start tackling the current unprecedented socioeconomic crisis.

Dan Na, 07/11/12

Founder, Cheekswab.org

Due to the lack of minority donors within the bone marrow registry, the process becomes much more complicated for ethnic minority patients. Unfortunately, less than 27 percent of the entire bone marrow registry is non-Caucasian.

Mariela Murdocco, 07/11/12

Journalist, TV Writer, TV Producer & Photographer

A world of opportunities for up-and-coming Latin recording artists that not only will change your playlist but may just become famous along the way.

Jonathan Spalter, 07/11/12

Chairman, Mobile Future

These outcomes are bad for all Americans -- but will hit Hispanics and other minority communities who rely most heavily on wireless connectivity especially hard.

Kristian Ramos, 07/11/12

Policy Director, Hispanic Demographics, Immigration NDN

When asked in an open-ended question to name the person they consider "the most important Latino leader in the country today," nearly two-thirds (64%) of Hispanic respondents said they did not know.

Eduardo Barraza, 07/10/12

Founder and director, Hispanic Institute of Social Issues; Editor, Barriozona Magazine; author

The film seeks to highlight that while two Americans have the same birth rights granted in the U.S. Constitution, the younger one finds herself in a devastating predicament when her undocumented parents are incarcerated.

Cesar Vargas, 07/10/12

Managing Partner of DRM Capitol Group and national advocate for the DREAM Act

The rhetoric on immigration this election cycle has been extreme, demonstrating a willingness to sacrifice common sense for fanatical politics. Even worse, the rhetoric has made immigration legislatively untouchable.

Yvette A. Nunez, 07/10/12

Latina. Mother. Writer.

I went into the 2012 National Council of La Raza Annual Conference in Las Vegas, eyes, ears and heart wide open to receive the kind of inspiration that leads to action, and I was haunted knowing that Sandra Cisneros was going to be a part of one of the workshops.

Rev. Jesse Jackson, 07/10/12

Civil rights activist

This economy is not working for most Americans. With hard-hit families tightening their belts, employers won't hire until they see a lot more customers with cash in their pockets.

Sylvia Puente, 07/10/12

Executive Director, Latino Policy Forum

While the details of Peña Nieto's personal life remain fuzzy at best, his Institutional Revolutionary Party's uninterrupted, 70-year rule of Mexico, which ended in 2000, provided ample opportunity for familiarity with its legacy of corruption.

Fundacion MEPI, 07/10/12

Independent investigative journalism project specializing in binational and regional investigations

It wasn't until 2006 that Mexicans living out of the country could vote. The 2012 presidential elections were the second time Mexico organized citizen abroad voting exercises.

Pablo Manriquez, 07/10/12

Sr. Strategist, Qorvis, LLC

More than 21 million Latinos will be eligible to vote this November. And the fate of Latino immigrants in America would surely improve quickly between now and Election Day if unregistered Latino voters visit one of the sites listed here.

Erin Siegal, 07/09/12

Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism. Author of "Finding Fernanda." Redux Pictures photographer.

In nationwide demonstrations on Saturday, tens of thousands of Mexicans peacefully took to the streets in protest of President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto, accusing his party, the PRI, of corruption and vote-buying.