News Flash: Latino Heritage adds to U.S. Cultural Diversity

I was reading a recent release posted on the USINFO website. USINFO delivers information about current U.S. foreign policy and about American life and culture. The site is produced and maintained by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs.

The article which captured my attention was U.S. Politics, Literature, Sports Show Cultural Influence of Hispanics: Latino heritage adds to U.S. cultural diversity, Smithsonian official says.

According to the article, the influence of Latinos is felt in every aspect of society, but especially in baseball, politics and literature, remarks Pilar O'Leary a Smithsonian official. She goes on to say that Latino authors as Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes and Isabel Allende have blazed a trail for Latino authors in the United States and globally.

Isn't this what I and other admirers of Latino/Hispanic literature have been saying for years?

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