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