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Strict requirements, insufficient information about registration procedures and lack of public interest hobbled Mexico’s first effort to conduct absentee voting among its more than ten million adult citizens living in the United States, according to a Pew Hispanic Center survey. About one-half of one percent of Mexicans in the U.S. sought absentee ballots for the presidential election in July during a registration period which ended last month.

Opera Colorado Education and Outreach Director Katherine Myers announced that Opera Colorado has commissioned Texas-born composer Robert Xavier Rodriguez and librettist Mary Medrick to create a new family opera based on Latin American themes. The new opera, entitled La Curandera (The Sorceress), will have its world premiere at the Eugenia Rawls Courtyard Theatre at the King Performing Arts Center on the Auraria Campus this coming spring. La Curandera will be performed in Spanish and in English.

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Many high-achieving Latino students miss the opportunity to succeed academically because their needs are poorly understood, according to a new report from ETS and a University of California researcher. As a result, these students’ academic futures are left “hanging by a thin thread of hope.”

A spirited discussion on whether the U.S. ban on travel to Cuba should be lifted is one of the highlights of the newly-launched “Cuban Affairs Journal,” published by the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS). The discussion is between the former Chief of Mission of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, James Cason and William M. LeoGrande, Dean of the School of Public Affairs at American University.