By Peter Kuitenbrouwer, National Post, March 11, 2014 Twice in the past three weeks, leaders of Toronto’s Latin American community have sat down in the mayor’s office with Rob Ford and Saad Rafi, chief executive of Toronto’s upcoming Pan Am Games, to address Latinos’ concerns about their limited involvement in next year’s sporting spectacle. Still, the two […]
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By Debra Black, Toronto Star, March 6, 2014 Hispanic community members are concerned about what they call a lack of representation on the Pan Am Games board, executive and in overall planning. The lapse is disturbing given that 19 of the 41 countries attending the Games are Spanish-speaking, says Claudio Ruiz-Pilarte, president of the Hispanic […]
By Oscar Vigil, Revista Debate, March 5, 2014 ¿Se imagina usted una fiesta mexicana sin mariachis? Pues algo así es lo que pareciera estar sucediendo al interior de la organización de los Juegos Panamericanos Toronto 2015, en la cual, los canadienses de origen panamericano han sido casi completamente marginados, aseguran dirigentes latinos. La problemática la destapó […]