Portal:Hispanic and Latino Americans/Did you know/9


 * ... that Crash actress Arlene Tur played professional beach volleyball during her time at Florida International University?
 * ... that Arizona SB1070, the state's new immigration enforcement law, has attracted national attention as the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration measure in decades within the United States? (protest pictured)
 * ... that Eliseo Medina is the first Mexican American to serve on the executive board of the Service Employees International Union?
 * ... that playwright Josefina Niggli is believed to be the only Mexican-American woman to have a theatre named after her?
 * ... that a co-founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Mario G. Obledo, organized a boycott of the Taco Bell Chihuahua, citing the dog's stereotypical Mexican accent?
 * ... that San Diego artist Salvador Torres led the movement to paint murals on the support columns of a freeway in Chicano Park?
 * ... that an entire regiment of the Mexican Army was despatched to expel Mexican folk healer and mystic Teresa Urrea from the country?

2010