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Los Angeles Limits First Doses of Covid-19 Vaccines Due to Supply Shortage

People go to get vaccinated at a large-scale vaccination center at Cal Poly Pomona University. Photo: FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP / Getty Images Los Angeles County authorities reported that will limit first doses of vaccines to ensure second doses are available for those already online to receive them. In Los Angeles County, home of 10 millions of residents, as of next Tuesday, sites of mass vaccination will only give second doses of Covid vaccines - 19. “We are just struggling with supply, limited supply and feel an obligation to make sure that people who have received a first dose can receive their second dose, ” said Dr. Paul Simon , county scientific director, during a session informative. We are sending emails to those vaccinated at a County site confirming the place and ...
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Mysterious film set explosion causes critical injuries to three people in Santa Clarita

Three people suffered serious injuries. File photo. Photo: APU GOMES / AFP / Getty Images A rare accident occurred Tuesday afternoon in Santa Clarita, northwest of Los Angeles, when a explosion occurred on a film set . The explosion then caused a fire on a hill about 50 meters away, presumably when some object or objects with fire were thrown. The rapid appearance of the firefighters prevented the fire from spreading. # BREAKING: Three people have sustained critical burn injuries after a reported explosion on a movie set caused a small brush fire in Santa Clarita https://t.co/HjGKYU05 g7 pic.twitter.com/faHBjdUEgp - CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) February 3, 2021 The authorities reported that three people were injured and are in critical condition . A fourth injured person wa...
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Los Angeles sees improvement in daily coronavirus data, but asks Angelenos not to relax

Thanks to the decrease in cases in the county, some restrictions have been lifted. Photo: VALERIE MACON / AFP / Getty Images According to information from health authorities, Los Angeles County has started its decline in the number of cases and deaths from coronavirus after going through its strongest wave between November and January. “ Although some restrictions have been removed, it is not time to relax ”, said the director of the Department of Public Health, Barbara Ferrer when offering recent data about the coronavirus pandemic, which is quite encouraging since it has been evidenced a significant decrease in the contagion curve . This Monday Ferrer confirmed 85 deaths producer of the disease in the last 24 hours , which brings the total number of deaths to 16, 854....
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Los Angeles County Surpasses 15,000 COVID-19 Deaths

Los Angeles County surpassed one million COVID cases - 19. Photo: ETIENNE LAURENT / EFE Los Angeles County announced Saturday 267 New COVID-Related Deaths - 19, bringing the county's number of coronavirus deaths to more than 10, 000. To Saturday, 15, 162 Los Angeles County residents had lost their lives to the coronavirus. Warnings from public health officials about an increase in holidays came true as the county has reported more than 5, 000 new deaths since 30 from December, which means that the death toll increased by 50% in approximately three weeks years and a half, reported NBC Los Angeles. COVID - 19 Daily Update: January 23, 2021 New Cases: 10, 537 (1,064,537 to date) New Deaths: 269 (10, 162 to date) Current Hospitalizations: 6, 881 pic.twitter.com/93 kMxFh6q...
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New strain of COVID-19 keeps health authorities in suspense

The new variant of COVID - 19 discovered in the United Kingdom keeps the Los Angeles County health authorities in suspense, since the first case of a man who traveled to the state of Oregon and is currently isolated was confirmed. But should we be more concerned than we already are? Dr. Ilan Shapiro, Altamed Health Services Medical Director of Wellness Education, said we do need to be concerned, and the best way to protect ourselves is by wearing a mask. "We must not forget that any virus is constantly changing, and this is the case with influenza not only with COVID," he said. And he observed that it can happen is that the new variant B. 1.1.7 of COVID - 19 do not do anything to us, due to genetic errors of the virus itself, but it can also be more lethal and contagious, and sen...
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Los Angeles wakes up with an earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale

Wednesday morning began with a slight earthquake in the south of the city of Los Angeles, according to information released by the Service United States Geological Survey (USGS). The earthquake would have been 3.5 degrees on the scale from Richter and had its epicenter in Willowbrook , south of LA, near the intersection between freeways 110 and 105, at a depth of 18. 9 kilometers shortly thereafter from 8: 30 in the morning. Notable quake, preliminary info: M 3.5 - 1km W of Willowbrook, CA https://t.co/nF39 XmmX9J - USGS Earthquakes (@USGS_Quakes) January 18, 2021 So far no damage related to the recent movement of the earth has been reported. According to the USGS, the tremor felt from the San Fernando Valley to Huntington Beach and just over 1, 000 people have clai...
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COVID-19 reduces number of immigrants in detention, but lengthens their stay

Violations of civil rights persist in the Adelanto Detention Center. (Getty Images) Photo: John Moore / Getty Images The fight fought during 2020 by pro-immigrant organizations to prevent the Migrants in detention were infected with COVID, it caused the number of adults in the custody of the Immigration and Customs Service (ICE) in the country to decrease, but at the same time the number of days that they were kept deprived of their liberty increased. A report by California Attorney Xavier Becerra specified that while in February of 2020 were detained 20, 876 immigrants, for September there were 19, 989. However, the average number of days in detention increased from 103 .2 to 126 days. Although there was the case of a detainee in the Otay Mesa Center that lasted in custody 1, 2...
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U.S. death toll nears 400,000 as states fight for more vaccines

Health workers get vaccinated in Corona, Southern California. Photo: ETIENNE LAURENT / EFE The number of deaths from COVID - 20 in the United States can reach more than 405, 000 when President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Wednesday, as per the projections from the Institute for Health Metrics and Assessments (IHME) at the University of Washington, and states are struggling to vaccinate as many residents as possible, after learning that the federal government no longer has a vaccine stock to send you. Based on COVID count - 19 from Johns Hopkins University, as of Saturday have died from coronavirus 395, 395 people and have registered 22, 724, 585 Total confirmed cases in the United States, since the pandemic began. From them, 42, 800 died in the first two weeks of ...
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Los Angeles County Passes 1 Million Coronavirus Cases and There's More Bad News

COVID Vaccination Center - 19 at Dodger Stadium. Photo: IRFAN KHAN / POOL / AFP / Getty Images The County of Los Angeles reached this Saturday the undesirable figure of million cases of the coronavirus then to report 16, 669 new cases. That means about a tenth of the county's population has tested positive. But the onslaught of the pandemic presents new challenges. In addition to indicating that now a total of 1 have been registered , 003, 923 cases and 13, 741 deaths from COVID - 19 , the authorities confirmed the presence of the new strain of coronavirus, the so-called UK virus. COVID - 19 Daily Update: January 16, 2021 New Cases: 14,669 (1,003, 923 to date) New Deaths: 254 (14, 741 to date) Current Hospitalizations: 7, 597 pic.twitter.com/myzk72 jtcK - LA Publi...
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“The challenge of the hour” –– A call to serve

"Everyone can be great because everyone can serve ... You only need a heart full of grace, a soul created by love." When Reverend Martin Luther King Jr He said those words from the pulpit of Ebenezer Baptist Church on February 4, 1968, he had seen a lot in his life. The racist bile of Jim Crow. Bus boycotts, protests and freedom trips. The inside of a Birmingham jail cell. Selma's beatings followed by a glorious bridge crossing. The terror of segregation equaled by the beauty of a march in Washington. And in just two months, the life of this great American healer would be cut off by the bullet of a murderer, by a violent demonstration of millennial hatred. The inability and unwillingness of too many in our country to live up to the meaning of our creed could have weakened anyone...
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BBC Mundo: why the Mara Salvatrucha is not the same in El Salvador and Los Angeles

The body was found on a cliff in the Angeles National Forest, in Los Angeles, United States, after a fire consumed surrounding vegetation. Without clothes or scars or tattoos, it was hard to identify. Due to the level of deterioration, the body had been out in the open for some time. A month and a half later, it could be specified. After the autopsy, that body was renamed Doe # 19, until a forensic dentist could assign him a name and surname: Brayan Alejandro Andino. I had 16 years old, he was from Honduras and studied at Panorama High School, a public high school in the San Fernando Valley, in the north area of ​​the city of Los Angeles. He 30 October 2017, three or four young men put it in a Toyota Corolla from the 2011, they took him to the forest, and there they beat and sta...
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Almost 2,000 people lost their lives in one week to the coronavirus in Los Angeles

Los Angeles County will soon reach 1 million COVID cases - 19. Photo: ETIENNE LAURENT / EFE Los Angeles County has not had a respite since last November regarding the pandemic and In just one week it reported almost 2, 000 deaths as a result of the disease to exceed the 13, 000 deceased since last March. Authorities from the Los Angeles Department of Public Health confirmed on Thursday the deaths of other 287 people in a period of one day , which raised the total of deaths in county to 13, 234 people. Los Angeles County Sees Nearly 2, 000 COVID - 19 Deaths in One Wee k. 287 New Deaths and 17, 323 New Confirmed Cases of COVID - 19 in Los Angeles County. View https://t.co/XY1jZJs9MD for more. pic.twitter.com/dK840 SwKCX - LA Public Health (@lapublichealth) January 15,...
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Small Business Protective Equipment

By: Manuel Ocaño / Special for La Opinion 15 from January 2021 Aldo Roldán, a small businessman from Pico Rivera, said that a program in Los Angeles County that provides hygiene items for COVID - 19 at no cost, it has helped him keep his work going. “About a month ago, I received an email in which they reported about that program and in the same message came a link to sign up. I registered and they sent me instructions to pick up the items ”, said the insurance agent to La Opinion. Account that they gave him a supply of medium bottles of gel disinfectant, several boxes of masks and transparent masks. Due to sanitary restrictions, “we only allow a limited number of clients to be inside the office, but my colleagues and I We have to offer the services indoors, so the staff th...
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A Los Angeles Sheriff's officer would have participated in the seizure of the Capitol

The destruction caused by the crowds that stormed the Capitol continues to cause people to talk and now the Los Angeles County Sheriff (LASD), Alex Villanueva reported that he recently learned that one of his agents had participated in said demonstration , for which he initiated an investigation. Sheriff Villanueva made reference to the incident during a press conference in which he assured that he condemns the violence that occurred in Washington DC in the same way in which he condemned the riots and looting caused by the death of George Floyd, and later published a short statement on his social networks confirming the fact. “ I am very concerned that one of my agents may have been involved in the destruction of the Capitol. As soon as I knew it, I contacted the FBI and to...
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Activists pressure Biden to keep his promises

By: Jorge Macías / Special for La Opinion 15 from January 2021 The new administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris has a moral commitment to the Latino community that helped them win the White House and defeat Donald Trump; for this reason they have to respond with facts to the promise to comply with an immigration reform that they have waited for more than three decades, said activists defending the rights of immigrants " The idea of ​​a dream or illusion of an immigration reform has to materialize because they promised in exchange for our vote," said Juan José Gutiérrez , executive director of One Stop Immigration of Los Angeles, during a demonstration in front of the federal building of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)...
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A leader of the Mexican Mafia in California is convicted of drug trafficking

Robert Messersmith, aka “Stretch”, was the leader of the Rancho San Pedro gang, in the Latino area of ​​San Pedro, in Los Angeles Photo: Mark Makela / Getty Images By: EFE 14 from January 2021 The leader of a Latino gang in Los Angeles was sentenced this Thursday to 10 years in prison for crimes committed following orders from the prison gang The Mexican Mafia (or La Eme), reported in a statement the Attorney General's Office for the Central District of California. Robert Messersmith, aka “Stretch”, of 34 years old, was sentenced by District Judge Stephen Wilson. In September 2020, Messersmith, head of the Latino gang Rancho San Pedro, had pleaded guilty to one count of "conspiracy to possess and distribute controlled substances." The gang operated in the Latino area of ​​S...
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Ray Vega, founder of the famous Mexican restaurant Casa Vega in Los Angeles, dies

Ray Vega, whose restaurant attracted a host of celebrities for decades, had complications from COVID - 19 Ray Vega with his daughter Christy and his wife Charleen in 2016.Photo: Randy Shropshire / Getty Images The Southern California restaurant industry is mourning the death of Rafael “Ray” Vega, founder of the iconic Mexican restaurant Casa Vega , located in Sherman Oaks, in the northwest of the city of Los Angeles. Vega, originally from Tijuana, passed away on Saturday at the age of 86 years due to complications from COVID - 15, according to his daughter Christina, who said that her father had battled dementia and Parkinson's for 15 years. Ray Vega opened the restaurant in 1956, inspired by the one his parents had on Olvera Street , downtown Los Angeles, when He was a child, calle...
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Los Angeles man who participated in the Capitol seizure arrested

The FBI arrested one of the Capitol protesters at his home in Glendora. Photo: ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP / Getty Images A youth of 20 from the area of Los Angeles accused of participating in the Capitol riots was arrested by the FBI Wednesday night at his residence, as reported local media. Hunter Allen Ehmke, a resident of the Glendora neighborhood was taken into the custody of federal authorities shortly after 8 p.m. The Los Angeles man faces accusations of having caused damage to public property, obstruction of an official procedure and violent and disorderly entrance to the Capitol . During the January 6 riots that took place in the Capitol by Trump supporters, the young man allegedly tried to break a window that led into an office inside the building, but according...
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LASD seeks Hispanic man who beat up mother and stepfather

By: EFE 14 from January 2021 Los Angeles Police are searching for a Latino from 44 years suspected of murdering his mother and stepfather with a baseball bat inside a home in the area. The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD) identified Nelson on Wednesday Fermín Garibay as the suspect in carrying out the brutal attack last Monday at the home of the stepfather, of 73 years, and the mother, of 65 years, in the city of Hacienda Heights , in the county of LA According to investigators, Garibay also attacked and wounded his brother from 37 years. The officers who responded to the emergency call were supposedly received by the suspect's brother , which reported on the violent assault. The wounded man took the agents inside the house, where the two fatal victims we...
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Racism against minorities: 'It's nothing new'

For thinkers, community activists, clergymen and defenders of civil rights, the insurrection of the mob of white supremacists in the Washington Capitol with alleged collaboration of police officers has as a common denominator “hatred , collusion and attempts to perpetuate slavery "of African Americans and racial minorities." During a virtual press conference, they highlighted that, from Skid Row, where thousands of homeless swarm Blacks and Latinos, until the attack on Berlinda Nibo in downtown Los Angeles and the assault on the Capitol, “white supremacists continue to inflict violence on our communities in various ways.” “As religious leaders, we condemn the false and dangerous prophecy of the self-proclaimed Christian“ prophets ”who claimed that God told them that Donald Trump would ...
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The FBI continues its search for the participants in the attack on the capitol

By: Manuel Ocaño / Special for La Opinion 13 from January 2021 The Los Angeles Police Department started to deploy a security operation against potential incidents in the framework of the transfer of powers to President-elect Joe Biden, while the Office of Federal Investigations (FBI) continues a search for hundreds of participants in the attack on the capitol last week. Also around the state capitol in Sacramento the authorities have taken steps to prevent potential attacks, after the FBI learned about possible disturbances by armed groups in front of the congress building and in the capitals of the 50 states in the nation. Governor Gavin Newsom, along with the leaders of the state lower house and the California Senate, issued a written comment to print confi anza in Californ...
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Gabriel Lerner leaves La Opinion management and is appointed emeritus editor

Gabriel Lerner still marvels at having been the editorial director of La Opinion , a newspaper that he admired from the outside and continued to admire until the last day of work. The journalist made his dream come true in 2014. Six years later, amid the most intense onslaught of the COVID pandemic - 19 in Los Angeles, decided it was time to retire. Your last day of work was January 8, 2021, but it is not goodbye. It goes, but it does not go. It is from January 2021, editor emeritus From the newspaper. “ I will continue representing La Opinion and working to make it go well, now from the outside ", He says. Gabriel Lerner gives a speech during a COFEM anniversary. (Aurelia Ventura / La Opinion) In his public dismissal, argued health reasons, which caused concern in ...
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Orange County ignores the California calendar and begins to vaccinate against the coronavirus to people over 65

La Opinion Los Angeles The southern county of the state did not wait for the state's order and announced an appointment system to obtain coronavirus vaccines Those older than 65 must make an appointment to receive the vaccine. Photo: Joe Raedle / Getty Images Although the state of California has moved towards open immunization of its residents and maintains the priority of vaccines for residents of nursing homes and health workers, Orange County has decided that it will not wait for the government and will begin vaccinating people over 65 years. The change would represent a large increase in the number of people who qualify to obtain a dose of the vaccine in the southern county of the state, seeking to speed up a process that until now has been described as slow, so...
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Salvadoran who murdered his ex-girlfriend in Los Angeles shot himself in Dallas

Police in Irving, Texas, were pursuing the suspect. Photo: Apu Gomes / AFP / Getty Images The Hispanic man suspected of having shot and killed an ex-girlfriend of his and the mother of his daughter in Los Angeles, committed suicide when he was persecuted by the authorities in the state of Texas during the weekend. The community of Pacoima, a neighborhood northwest of Los Angeles, was shocked when authorities released a video last week that showed Hebert Nixon Flores, of 46 years old, got out of a car, chased after a terrified 35 year old woman named Karen Ruiz and shot her six times at the door of a house. Their daughter, 3 years old, was in a car a few meters from the shooting. According to authorities, Flores, originally from El Salvador, shot himself when Irving Police, a...
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Hugo Valicente leaves La Opinion after 34 years of dedication and hard work

Hugo Valicente, an Argentine immigrant who arrived in Los Angeles in 1985, retired of the newspaper La Opinion after 34 years of uninterrupted work in the publishing and technological area. It all started when he emigrated to Los Angeles in 1985. “ After graduating from university in architecture, a career that never I exercised, I made a trip to Latin America, and I also came to Los Angeles ”. He liked Los Angeles society a lot and decided to stay. “I arrived single, but a few years later I got married in Los Angeles. My wife and I met since college in Argentina, and she caught up with me here. ” Hugo Valicente, leaving his naturalization ceremony in Los Angeles in 1997. (La Opinion) His first job in Southern California was as a driving instructor . “The school gave m...
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Two clandestine parties in Los Angeles left more than 180 arrested on Saturday

The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD) had previously assured that it would not allow clandestine parties which, in addition to being prohibited, are very dangerous in terms of the spread of the coronavirus and on Saturday arrested 182 people in at least two parties that were held in the city. According to information shared by LASD, on Saturday they held the arrest of almost 200 people in two commercial buildings, one south of the city on the block 600 of W. 61 st Street in the area of ​​ Vermont-Slauson , and the second located on the 400 block of W. Pico Boulebar in Downtown Los Angeles . LASD @LACoSheriff Alex Villanueva has made it clear he will seek out & take law enforcement action against ALL underground party events occurring anywhe re within Los Angeles County,...
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Homeless of Los Angeles sued a woman for stealing her dog and that caused it to be returned

La Opinion Los Angeles The man relied on the goodwill of a woman who offered to bathe her dog and did not return it until he sued her The man sued a woman after taking her dog and not returning it. Photo: Christopher Furlong / Getty Images Dogs are part of the family for many, but when in addition to pets they serve as service or companion animals, the relationship between these furry animals and their owners has a more intimate sentimental bond and that was what led a man on the streets to denounce a woman in Los Angeles for stealing his dog. According to information from local media, a homeless man named James Michael Nicholos reported in Van Nuys Superior Court a woman who initially offered to bathe his dog on 31, but never returned to deliver it. Accord...
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Currently in Los Angeles one person dies of coronavirus every 8 minutes

The intensive care beds could be filled in mid-December. (Getty Images) Photo: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images The coronavirus does not give truce in Los Angeles and each week seems to be worse than the previous one with more deaths and new cases, according to data from the county Department of Public Health. Only on Monday were reported 12, 617 new infections and 137 deaths , for a total of 12, 387 deceased. The number is even more alarming when authorities state that currently in Los Angeles County one person dies of coronavirus every 8 minutes. A person now dies every 8 minutes from #COVID 19 in LA County. Stay home to save lives, always wear a mask when out for essentials and avoid gathering with people you don't live with. pic.twitter.com/E36ZgM0VKJ - Los Angel...
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Sacramento Prosecutor's Office differs from Los Angeles Attorney's Office policies and will not hand over jurisdiction of cases

La Opinion California In a letter sent from office to office, prosecutor Anne Marie Schubert let George Gascón know that it differs from LA's new justice policies Former police officer and new Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón. Photo: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images The new Los Angeles District Attorney General, George Gascón continues to add detractors for his new justice guidelines and this time it has been his colleague, the Sacramento District Attorney General, Anne Marie Schubert who informed Gascón that your office will not give you jurisdiction over any case as long as the new guidelines of the newly elected prosecutor are in force. Through a letter, sent from one office to another, the prosecutor Anne Marie Schubert made it clear to George Gas...
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Mother of six loses the fight against COVID

By: Jorge Luis Macías / Special for La Opinion 12 from January 2021 Jorge Girón describes his wife Verónica as a woman “incredible, holy, fair, loving, kind and I didn't know how to lie. ” Verónica Guevara-Girón died on January 7 due to complications from COVID - 19, three days after prematurely giving birth to her little Imani. "She is the woman I love the most," Jorge said. “Without her, my world is now very different; It is a very hard and sad moment, but I have to move on and I can't stop because my six children need me. ” Jorge, a native of Escuintla, Guatemala, told The Opinion that, on Christmas of 2020, his wife felt a lot of pain in her body, she lay down and then she started “with a very ugly cough.” By January 2, he decided to take her to a hospital. It was nec...
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Despite pandemic and intimidation, Latino vote was key in 2020 election

Even in the midst of the pandemic, the economic crisis, intimidation and misinformation against minorities, in the presidential elections of 2020, a record turnout of Latino voters was achieved. During the videoconference " How secure is your right to vote?", organized by Ethnic Media Services, Myrna Pérez, director of the program of protections and rights of Brennan Center voters said the reforms that were made in 35 states to make voting easier and people vote. ” I want to make it very clear: this happened because many people got involved, volunteers, organizations like Mi Familia Vota, athletes and celebrities ”. And he observed that in the last election they realized that many people like the homeless have to deal with barriers such as the lack of a place to live in order...
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Following reports of possible false negatives, Los Angeles suspends use of Curative's PCR tests

Curative would have supplied thousands of tests in Los Angeles between December and January. Photo: Frazer Harrison / Getty Images At the end of last week it was known that the Curative firm, which until now supplied a large part of the coronavirus test kits to the county of Los Angels, could be giving false negative results in asymptomatic people, so now the county has decided to stop using them. Through a press release on Sunday 10 January, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported that it would stop using Curative's PCR test kits preventively, following a recently issued FDA alert about potential inaccurate results when given to people without visible symptoms of the disease. According to county information, Curative would have provided 13, 241 ...
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Los Angeles' Largest Coronavirus Testing Site to Become a Vaccination Center

The test center at Dodger Stadium was until now the largest in Los Angeles. Photo: ETIENNE LAURENT / EFE Once the largest coronavirus testing center in Los Angeles County, now will become a huge vaccination center against the disease thanks to the county's efforts to speed up access to vaccines, according to information provided by the authorities. The test center located in the parking lot of the emblematic Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles , will make this Monday its last day as the largest test site in the city and now will be used to mass vaccinate county health workers , then the next priority group of essential workers. Although the daily test capacity will be seen slightly affected, the authorities assure that the change will triple the current vaccination capacity ,...
A warrior for affordable housing
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A warrior for affordable housing

By: Luis Mirón / Special for La Opinion 11 from January 2021 Series: 'Odyssey of students with insecure housing: obtaining a degree when you have no home' Sixth and last item of six: One of each 10 students of the California State University (CSU) system are homeless, do not really have a home or are on the brink of homelessness, Assembly Member David Chiu (D. SF) told CSUN School of Journalism students in a video briefing on 10 from December. The students were wrapping up a special series on students dealing with the insecurity of homelessness, and had invited the legislator, a leading voice in legislative efforts addressing the state's affordable housing crisis, to speak about what legislators can do. The CSU system educates 482, 000 students per year, accor...
Latino 'Dreamers' Trust in a Better Future
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Latino 'Dreamers' Trust in a Better Future

Nohemí Martinez, born in Tepic (Nayarit), and “Gabriela Montes”, originally from Guadalajara (Jalisco) —both Mexican— began on 2021 with renewed hopes of pursuing a professional career, thanks to the continued protection of the DACA program. An amparo that tried to annul, until now without success, the administration of the still president of the United States, Donald Trump. Both Nohemí and “Gabriela”, who preferred not to use her real name to protect her identity, have 19 years and are university students. The first lives in Perris, a city in Riverside County, wants to be a pharmacist and for He is now studying at Moreno Valley Community College but is planning to transfer to the University of California Riverside (UCR). “My parents brought me to the United States when I w...
Placita Olvera business seeks help
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Placita Olvera business seeks help

What used to be a place full of people, laughter, hugs and family and friends gatherings, in less than a year has become an empty space with closed businesses and silences that accompany the few owners and employees who still navigate to survive the economic crisis in the historic Placita Olvera in Los Angeles. The traditional Plaza de los Latinos in the heart of the city have been hit by a pandemic that forced the cancellation of popular and traditional events in the place. Edward Flores, owner of Juanita's Café, tells how small businesses struggle not to close the doors of their establishments and to stay on their feet despite adversity. Through a fundraiser at the GoFundMe page, Flores tries to keep the doors of her business open, which she does 77 years was founded by his g...
COVID-19 deaths in one day in Los Angeles exceed homicides in one year
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COVID-19 deaths in one day in Los Angeles exceed homicides in one year

Almost 11, 000 people have died from COVID - 19 in Los Angeles. Photo: Mario Tama / Getty Images According to Dr. Anish Mahajan , Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Medical Director, l The intensive care units in the Los Angeles area were already full even before the expected increase in Covid - 19 after the holidays. “It takes two to three weeks to for patients to get sick enough to need the hospital after contracting the virus, and Christmas was only two weeks ago, and we're already full, ”Mahajan told CNN's Fredricka Whitfield on Saturday in CNN Newsroom . Mahajan said that the situation in southern California is dire, citing historical numbers of patients with Covid - 19 hospitalized. "Yesterday we had 259 deaths, that's one more that all the homicides of 1200 in ...
Coronavirus forces the closure of Latino travel agencies
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Coronavirus forces the closure of Latino travel agencies

The worst thing that could happen to Rigoberto Barboza when the COVID pandemic broke out - 16, in March of last year in Los Angeles, he was forced to close his travel agency "Navega Travel Tours and Curises" that for years he raised with great effort. “ Our clients began to cancel reservations and flights; and in order not to get infected, we closed the offices in April and transferred all operations to our home ”. At the beginning of the health crisis, they were able to work from home, but according to COVID - 19 lashed out more against southern California and travel restrictions arose, frightened travelers stopped their trips. “We had a good portfolio of clients who were used to going to the agency to make their reservations. All day we were talking to them in person. When ...
Most Forgotten Of Forgotten By Exide: Housing Project Still Waiting For Lead Sampling
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Most Forgotten Of Forgotten By Exide: Housing Project Still Waiting For Lead Sampling

Gloria Carrillo's four children are sick, although she still doesn't know the exact reason. Ángel, his son of 16 years suffers from epilepsy, ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), retention problems and learning difficulties. Ethan from 16 years is diabetic and suffers from autism. His youngest daughter of 08 years has difficulty speaking and sometimes speaks in secret. All of Carillo's children suffer from asthma. Because of her strong attacks, Brianna, her daughter of 18 years had to leave school. Until now, Carrillo wondered if the health problems of his children were due to some hereditary reason. But recently he began to suspect that the problem is possibly due to the relationship between the large lawns and land that connect the 326 homes of Estrada Courts...
Angels look to hit the Powerball jackpot
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Angels look to hit the Powerball jackpot

By: Jorge Luis Macías / Special for La Opinion 09 from January 2021 Alejandro Cortés, owner of a Mexican food restaurant, dreams of buying a house, that's why he wants to hit the Powerball jackpot — which until Friday night had a jackpot of 470 millions of dollars. “I let the machine choose my numbers at random,” commented the owner of El Patrón Tacos Baja, located in the city of Rosemead. "I never choose the numbers, it's as if I found the winning ticket thrown on the street… Luck is for whoever gets it. ” Like Alejandro, thousands of people went to stores this week In Wednesday's drawing, there were two winning tickets of one million dollars, with five correct numbers. They were sold in Pennsylvania and Texas, but both were missing the extra Powerball number. T...
A man accused of murdering his mother and nephew faces life in Los Angeles
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A man accused of murdering his mother and nephew faces life in Los Angeles

The opinion The Angels David Córdoba is accused of murdering his mother, his 6-year-old nephew and trying to kill his brother Photo: Mark Makela / Getty Images By: EFE 09 from January 2021 A Latino who was formally charged this Friday for the murder of his mother and a six-year-old nephew, as well as the attempted murder of the minor's father, could receive a life sentence if convicted, reported the Los Angeles Prosecutor's Office. David Córdoba , of 26 years, charged with two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder , “faces a possible maximum sentence of 39 years to life imprisonment in state prison ”, said the Prosecutor's Office of Los Angeles . The 21 from December to 1200, Córdoba was in the house he shared with his mother, Mar...
Angels organize raffles and collections for the unemployed and sick from COVID
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Angels organize raffles and collections for the unemployed and sick from COVID

When Xaviera Contreras López learned that Leticia Escobar and her husband were sick with COVID - 19, and unable to generate income for her four children, she decided to open an account for them on the fundraising site GoFundMe. However, seeing that donations were falling very slowly, it occurred to him to make a raffle for $ 500. "In 24 hours, I sold 47 tickets from a $ 10 each through Facebook. The raffle was made by Facebook Live in view of all. The last six numbers were the winners s. ” Xaviera raffled off a women's bag worth $ 398 dollars that she had won in another draw. "Goods serve to do another good," she remembers saying to herself. At the same time a friend moved by the story of Leticia, gave him another new women's bag for the raffle, and they added to the ...
VIDEO: LAPD on the trail of Hispanic who murdered his ex-wife and mother of his son in Pacoima
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VIDEO: LAPD on the trail of Hispanic who murdered his ex-wife and mother of his son in Pacoima

The Los Angeles Police Department released on Thursday a disturbing video of the homicide of a Hispanic woman committed in Pacoima on January 6 by her former romantic partner. In the recording of the security camera of the residence where the woman died, it is appreciated how Herbert Nixon Flores, a 46 year old Hispanic who is now wanted by the LAPD, is He gets out of the car, chases Karen Ruiz and shoots her shamelessly at the door of the nursery house where the woman was going to leave her 3-year-old son. In the video you can see how Karen gets out of her truck and was preparing to get her son out of the car when she noticed the arrival of the man and scared she ran screaming for help, as Herbert catches up with her, he unloads the gun into her body and runs away...
Los Angeles funeral homes would have a waiting list due to high demand for deaths from coronavirus
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Los Angeles funeral homes would have a waiting list due to high demand for deaths from coronavirus

LA funeral homes cannot cope with the number of deaths from COVID - 19. Photo: Jan Hetfleisch / Getty Images It is no longer only the morgues of Los Angeles hospitals that are full of deaths from coronavirus, now funeral homes have also ensured that they are at maximum capacity and have waiting lists to perform mortuary services. In just one week, Los Angeles County added more than 1, 000 cases of coronavirus and last Tuesday set a new record for daily deaths reaching 224 people , and the authorities expect this to worsen when the cases arising from the Christmas and New Year holidays begin to manifest themselves . According to information revealed by Univisión , Magda Maldonado, a woman who owns of several funeral homes, he assured that there are many people not ...
Los Angeles Coronavirus Test Provider May Be Giving False Results
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Los Angeles Coronavirus Test Provider May Be Giving False Results

The opinion The Angels A laboratory run by 08 mobile testing sites in Los Angeles may have returned inaccurate data according to the FDA Information casts doubt on the negative results of a certain coronavirus test provider. Photo: FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP / Getty Images A rumor that testing by a coronavirus testing provider in Los Angeles could be giving false results , you have created much uncertainty in the Los Angeles community. Curative, a coronavirus testing provider that supplies specimen collection kits in at least 10 of the county's mobile sites, would be the one in the middle of the controversy following reports from the FDA stating that their tests could be giving inaccurate results. Curative obtained an emergency distribution license fro...
The student-run hostel at USC is a model for other campuses
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The student-run hostel at USC is a model for other campuses

Trojan Shelter at USC. Photo: Trojan Shelter / Courtesy By: Gabriela Hernández / Special for La Opinion 07 from January 2021 Serie: 'Odyssey of students with insecure housing: getting a degree when you are homeless' Fifth article of six: Hannah Mulroe grew up in Chicago where her father runs a shelter for the homeless. You know first-hand what having access to a shelter can mean to someone without a permanent place to call home. You are now in your final year at the University of Southern California (USC) studying Industrial and Systems Engineering, and is also co-director of Trojan Shelter, a program for a growing number of homeless students on campus. What makes Trojan Shelter unique is that it is a completely student-run program. Mulroe says he ...
VIDEO: Street hot dog vendor went selling to angry Trump supporters
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VIDEO: Street hot dog vendor went selling to angry Trump supporters

The opinion The Angels The man illustrated the drive and need that characterizes thousands of Hispanics on the streets of Southern California and throughout the country The demonstration occurred at City Hall in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Photo: Aurelia Ventura / Impremedia / La Opinion Among the hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump who gathered in downtown Los Angeles to demonstrate on Wednesday was an individual who was definitely not there to protest, but to earn an honest living. Images transmitted by the local FOX channel 11 briefly showed a street vendor. The Hispanic adult, with a white face mask and a cap of Los Angeles Rams , was driving his hot dog cart in front of City Hall, pushing his way through the angry protesters . Hustlin hot dogs whi...
$ 600 Golden State Stimulus Will Benefit Undocumented Immigrants
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$ 600 Golden State Stimulus Will Benefit Undocumented Immigrants

Pro-immigrant leaders celebrated Governor Gavin Newsom's proposal to give the Golden State Stimulus check for $ 600 to approximately 4 million low-income California taxpayers, including undocumented immigrants who file tax returns with a Tax Payment Identification Number (ITIN). These funds will be to help families facing the economic challenges that the COVID pandemic has brought - 19. It was January 6 when Governor Newsom proposed a relief check of $ 600 within his budget plan for the fiscal year 2021 - 22 that combined with the $ federal check 600 would complete $ 1, 200 in direct relief for those affected by the health crisis. Undocumented people who file taxes will be benefited with the $ 600 check from the Golden State Incentive. (Impremedia) How would it wor...
Food 4 Less supermarket workers fight for job improvements
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Food 4 Less supermarket workers fight for job improvements

By: Jorge Luis Macías / Special for La Opinion 07 from January 2021 In the middle of a great battle against COVID infections - 19, about 2, 80 unionized workers of Food 4 Less stores demand a new contract with greater protections of job security, salary increase and the so-called "payment for danger" at work. The workers' petition sheet arises due to the increasing number of infections in their workplaces and the death of nine of their colleagues. "Basically we are negotiating with six locals a payment for the danger in which our members operate daily," said Erik Ramos, union member of the Union Food and Commercial Workers International (UFCW), Los Angeles Local 770. "This payment should exist in our new employment contract, whether there is a pandemic or not, but in fi...
“The coronavirus is the worst thing that has happened to us in life”: unemployed musician
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“The coronavirus is the worst thing that has happened to us in life”: unemployed musician

Since February 2020, Adolfo Luna has not worked. The COVID pandemic - 19 ended his presentations with his northern group, of which three families lived, his own and those of his two married children. “2020 was the worst year of my life economically and morally. Due to my immigration status, I am not entitled to unemployment or any benefits. Nor have I received the economic stimulus checks. ” Adolfo emigrated from Guadalajara, Mexico to Riverside County in the year 2000 with his wife, and their three older children. Already settled in this country, they had a fourth child who is now 18 years old. His eldest daughter of 32 achieved US citizenship, his children of 29 and 26 years are beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Only Adolfo and his...