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Carlos D. Conde

Carlos D. Conde, award-winning journalist and former Washington and foreign news correspondent, was a press aide in the Nixon White House. 

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Hispanic Community January 2011 Premium

A Field of Broken Dreams <b> Carlos D. Conde </b>

Social issues on their way to becoming legislation have a way of becoming identified by a catchy metaphor that captures their objectives. It’s usually intentional, like the DREAM Act, an apropos label if there ever was one. And if there ever was a piece of legislation that merited passage, it was this, with all the elements to ease some of the problems created by theinflux of illegal immigrants and provide a positive, if partial, solution to this illicit diaspora besetting the nation.

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Hispanic Community February 2011 Premium

For Brazil, the Future Has Arrived <b> Carlos D. Conde </b>

In1941, so the story goes, Austrian author Stephan Zweig migrated to Brazil and, being so enamored with his new homeland and its potential, praised it in a book as the “country of the future” and then committed suicide. Not that these frustrations were to blame, but it supposedly gave rise to one of the most hackneyed references to this South American colossal – “the country of the future and always will be.”

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Administration February 2011 Premium

The System Is Broken, Ad Nauseam <b> Carlos D. Conde </b>

There’s a fruit vendor in my border hometown in Texas who sells fresh fruit from his truck. He’s a popular figure because he’s good with the “pilon,” the baker’s dozen giving, let’s say, 15 oranges for the price of a dozen. His wife was a coveted seamstress until an immigration patrol picked her up and sent her back to Mexico. She was gone a few months, probably took the time to visit relatives, and now she’s back again to her routine, probably still illegal.

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Administration March 2011 Premium

Baby Doc’s Second Act by <b> Carlos D. Conde </b>

Youheard the one about the three biggest lies in the world? “Of course, I’ll still love you in the morning.” “The check is in the mail.” “I’m from the federal government and I’m here to help.” That last one can be applied in a somewhat similar context to Jean- Claude Duvalier, the former president of Haiti who showed up unexpectedly in Port-au-Prince in January saying he was so moved by the current plight of his countrymen that he had to come home to help them.

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Hispanic Community March 2011 Premium

Help! The Latinos – Mostly Mexicans – Are Coming. No, Wait, They Are Here! by <b> Carlos D. Conde </b>

Maybe Harvard scholar Samuel Huntington and conservative political activist Patrick Buchanan were right several years ago when they predicted that soon enough, the U.S. would be lousy with Latinos, mostly Mexicans. It’s already happening, but not to the extreme these two xenophobes predicted in their best-selling books that warned that if the population and migration trend continued – which it has – a wealth of Americans would soon be speaking Spanish and eating tacos.

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Administration April 2011 Premium

The Teaching Profession Under Siege <b> Carlos D. Conde </b>

Other than my parents, the greatest influences in my life have been teachers or people related to teaching. It dates to a declaration early in my life about the values of an education and about learning. My parents told my brother and me they would do whatever it took and make whatever sacrifices to push us to get a formal learning because, as they explained, you can lose all your material possessions but no one can ever take away an education.

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Administration July 2016 Premium

Latino Dreaming in 2016 <b> Carlos D. Conde </b>

It’s the quadrennial of U.S. presidential elections, so it’s apropos to bring up the image of Ben Fernandez who, as many may have forgotten, was the first Latin-Mexican American, to be precise to run for president of the United States. It brings reminiscences of where he got this pipe dream that a Latino, and Republican at that, could be elected U.S. president.  It wasn’t that long ago (actually 1980), but really seems an eternity from the prospect of one day having a Latino sitting in the White House Oval Office.

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Administration December 2016 Premium

Quiere Combate Says Trump to Mexico by <b> Carlos D. Conde </b>

There is an old Mexican saying by one of its former presidents, the legendary seven-term President Porfirio Diaz, 1876-19ll, who even back then had coined the apropos adage about his country’s relation with its neighbor, the United States.   “Tan legos de Dios y tan cerca de los Estados Unidos,” he sighed over some border issues with the United States.  (“So far from God and so close to the United States.”)

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