David Conde, Senior Consultant for International Programs
California, particularly Los Angeles, ICE raids and the immediate reaction by the residents represents a watershed moment in an extraordinary government effort to get rid of Latino immigrants even if they are citizens. ICE is finding out that they cannot go in and do what they want at least with Los Angeles Brown people and their supporters.
The much-touted presence of the military is also finding echoes of confusion. Members of the California National Guard openly questioned why they were there before better thinking allowed them to stand down.
More important is the notion of immigrants as purveyors of hard work as a living concept. People in power are beginning to realize that there is no substitute for hard work although generally few in the country understand or accept it as among the highest priorities that transforms lives.
Throughout our history immigrants that come to the United States have found dignity in work. Perhaps they did not have any other alternative because the choice to leave their country included securing opportunity with many risks.
The wave of devastation caused by lack of Latino immigrant farm labor because of ICE is beginning to weigh on the political class in Washington D.C. An example of this is the issue of tomatoes imported from Mexico. Because 70 percent of tomatoes and other produce served in American tables comes from Mexico, the Trump administration accused the exporter of “dumping,” a term used for artificially lowering the price of an item so that it can unfairly compete in the marketplace. So, it has imposed a 17 percent tariff on tomato imports causing a 10 percent rise in cost of the product in grocery stores.
The tariff is designed to benefit American farmers who welcome the increase in the price, but to what end? We have just seen South Florida farmers plow their tomato crop under because there is no labor to pick it.
Some years back there was an immigration scare, and Alabamans saw their tomatoes rot in the fields because migrant laborers refused to come into the State due to its new anti-immigration laws. The farmers had tried to get domestic labor from a variety of sources but found that they did not last because the work was “too hard.”
Now, Florida Republican Representative Maria Elvira Salazar joined by Texas Democratic Representative Veronica Escobar have introduced the Dignity Act of 2025, an immigration reform package that would allow, among other things, undocumented workers legal status for 7 years with no provisions for residency or citizenship. Like Salazar, farmers and politicians from farming states are showing a sort of desperation that comes from a negative pocketbook experience.
The name of the legislation amounts to an admission not only of the importance of immigrant labor to the American economy but also recognizes the work ethic that characterizes the role of Latino immigrants in the country. However, it does not take into account the deeper intention of an administration that seeks to drastically reduce the number of Latinos and their children in America simply because they are Latinos.
There is a demonstrated fear of Manifest Destiny in reverse. That is, the results of the dispossession of Spanish and Mexican lands and people to achieve continental domination are fraying because of the Latino march toward a demographic majority.
The current national deportation policies favor a much smaller footprint for the Latino community and Latino immigrant access to work. At the same time, there is a great need for hard-working people necessary to build and maintain our prosperity.
The views expressed by David Conde are not necessarily the views of LaVozColorado. Comments and responses may be directed to News@lavozcolorado.com.
Bus shuttles will be provided during temporary service disruption 7-10 a.m. on July 26
The Regional Transportation District (RTD) will conduct a joint emergency preparedness drill in coordination with local emergency services on Saturday, July 26, from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m., along the R Line between Peoria Station and 13th Avenue Station.
During the exercise, there will be no rail service on the R Line between Peoria, Fitzsimons, Colfax, and 13th Avenue stations. Bus shuttles will provide service between these stations throughout the drill period. Customers should allow extra travel time and look for posted signage at stations.
Gate assignments for shuttle service are as follows:
Peoria Station: Gate E
Fitzsimons Station: Light rail bus shuttle stop sign
Colfax Station: Bus stop at station
13th Avenue Station: Light rail bus shuttle stop sign
Service Alerts and station signage will provide real-time updates. R Line service will resume following completion of the drill exercise. Customers seeking alternative travel methods during the drill are encouraged to check RTD’s Next Ride app before traveling and sign up for Service Alerts for specific route information.
Area residents and businesses near the impacted stations may see a noticeable presence of emergency vehicles and first responders during the exercise. The drill is part of RTD’s regular emergency preparedness efforts, designed to ensure customer safety and maintain effective coordination between RTD personnel and local emergency agencies.
RTD appreciates customers’ and the community’s patience and understanding while this important safety exercise takes place.
On July 18, 2025, the President signed into law S. 1582, the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act” or “GENIUS Act,” which provides for the regulation of payment stablecoins (a form of cryptocurrency), and for other purposes.
Colorado Governor
Governor Polis joined Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and 16 other governors from around the country in calling on Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to release approximately $6.8 billion that the Trump Administration is withholding from schools and students across America, including $71 million in Colorado. Since then, $1.3 billion of withheld federal education funding for after-school programming has been released.
Denver Mayor
The City and County of Denver today shared an updated and revised Vibrant Denver Bond package. This bond represents $935 million in direct investment into infrastructure across Denver and will not result in a tax increase.
Deadly South Africa building collapse was ‘preventable’
South Africa’s government recently released a report on a 2024 building collapse that killed 34 construction workers. The report reads that the tragedy was “entirely preventable.” Officials say serious safety concerns were raised about the building prior to its collapse. Some of those concerns were reported a year before the collapse.
Zambia teacher killed by elephant
Students, colleagues and others recently paid tribute to Janet Easton, a 68-year-old teacher in Zambia. Easton, known as Janice, was trampled to death by a nursing elephant earlier this month. Colleagues described Easton as a much-loved friend who had an impact on generations of students.
Asia
Air force jet crash leaves 19 dead
A Bangladeshi air force jet crashed into a school campus in the capital of Dhaka, killing 19 people and injuring 164 others. The jet experienced a mechanical fault after taking off for a training exercise, according to a statement from the armed forces. The pilot tried to land the jet in a less populated area after the mechanical error occurred.
North Korea bans tourists from new water park
Officials in North Korea are planning to ban foreign tourists from a newly opened seaside resort. The resort is part of the country’s effort to boost tourism. Prior to opening, it was promoted as an attraction for locals and foreign tourists. North Korea’s new seaside resort includes hotels, restaurants, shopping malls, and a water park.
Europe
Moscow airports temporarily closed
Over the weekend, 140 flights at Moscow’s major airports were canceled because of a Ukrainian drone attack. Russia’s defense ministry said more than 230 drones were downed over Russia. Earlier this year, 60,000 passengers were stranded at Moscow airports after Ukraine launched more than 500 drones in a 24-hour period.
Anti-immigrant protests in Poland
Demonstrators in dozens of towns and cities in Poland gathered to protest against immigration. These rallies were organized by a far-right political group. The group, known as Konfederacja, has claimed there has been a flood of illegal migration in Poland. However, official figures do not show an increase in immigration in the country.
Latin America
Bolsonaro must wear ankle tag
Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro has been ordered by a judge to wear an ankle tag. He will also be required to follow a curfew as officials worry he might try to leave the country while taking stand. Bolsonaro is accused of plotting a coup to prevent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking office in 2023. He denied the claims.
Gunmen open fire on Ecuador pool hall
At least nine people were shot and killed in Ecuador when gunmen opened fire. Police believe the victims were not the intended targets of the attack. Among the victims included a local soccer coach and the son of a radio presenter. Ecuador has one of the highest murder rates in the region.
North America
Late Show ends after 33 years
CBS announced last week that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will end in 2026 after 33 years on air. The TV network said the move is a financial decision and is not related to the show’s performance. The Late Show first aired in 1993 as a competitor to NBC’s own talk show.
Mars rock sells for $4.3 million
A rock from Mars that was found on Earth sold at a New York auction for $4.3 million. The rock weighs 54 pounds and was discovered in a remote region of Niger in 2023. It is 70% larger than the next biggest piece of Mars that has ever been recorded. Other items sold at the auction included a Ceratosaurus skeleton and the skull of a Pachycephalosaurus.
Cirque du Soleil ECHO – Under the Big Top at Ball Arena West Parking Lot. A beautiful and unique show with amazing performances. Shows run until August 30, 2025. For more info and ticket, visit the Cirque du Soleil Echo website.
Photos courtesy: Jean-François Savaria – Cirque du Soleil ECHO
On their 17th century trek north into what is now Colorado, the Spanish marched into a whole new world. They saw new flora, new fauna, mountains that seemed to pierce the sky and endless oceans of wildflowers that exploded in kaleidoscopic splendor. But something else caught their eye.
Hanging Lake – Glenwood Canyon, Colorado Photo courtesy: LaVozColorado Staff
It was the way the sunlight, with a gossamer delicacy, gave already rust-shaded sandstone an unmistakable blush. The term they used to describe it was ‘colorado,’ Spanish for colored red. The name became official in 1861 when the region was rebranded a territory and, in 1876, a state.
“I tell my grandchildren that all the time,” said long-time Denver political icon, Ramona Martinez. Actually, long before telling her grandchildren, Martinez often wondered why a state so culturally and genetically branded offers so little to remind the world of this historic legacy.
Retired federal government executive and self-described ‘community connector’ Patricia Rivera Barela whose family history can be traced back to New Spain’s first arrivals shares Martinez pique.
Nearly thirty years ago, as a plan crystalized to right this wrong and a building for their dream became available—a building that sits at the intersection of Speer and Colfax—the Coors Foundation stepped up with a donation for the purchase. It was gifted to the city. In a symbolic ‘sale,’ then Denver Mayor Wellington Webb sold it to Martinez and her group—for a dollar. “I outbid (iconic historic preservationist) Dana Crawford,” Martinez chuckled.
But unforeseen delays, procrastination, perhaps, excuses, produced no results. The site became home to a series of other occupants, including the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Rocky Mountain SER, but never a heritage center or museum. But fortuitous timing and a new energy have resuscitated the dream.
Fast forward to 2022. Momentous national and state birthdays were approaching. Commissions—‘America 250’ and ‘Colorado 150’— were formed to commemorate them. Martinez was appointed to Colorado’s and Governor Jared Polis’ marching orders to her were simple, she said, “Think Big!” She did and got others to buy in.
Martinez, Rivera and longtime Denver and Colorado political force, Polly Baca, along with enthusiastic partners representing all areas of the state got on board. (In Denver Debbie Ortega, Juana Bordas and a tapestry of others reflecting gender, age, and ethnicity joined in.)
Denver was chosen as the location for the future site, though Pueblo and other regional sites were all thoughtfully considered. After scouring the city, good fortune and a little political muscle, —the Governor offered his suggestion—the group located what appears to be ‘ground zero’ for this dream. The Auraria High Education Complex.
With friends in high places, a small, but determined army of allies, including Ivan Anaya, a developer who the pair say has pledged his help to bring the museum to fruition, the elements are beginning to coalesce.
Martinez and Barela are acting as ‘point’ for this effort, but each is adamant that their roles are no bigger, no more important than their group’s members who represent every corner of Colorado.
They expect, barring any unanticipated event like, say, Covid, that the museum’s ‘balloon drop’ will happen on time and meet the country’s sesquicentennial—250th birthday—and Colorado’s 150th.
Martinez, Barela and their “village” envision a museum with colorful murals, stories about the women and men who, at the right moment, stood tall for the things that may not have been popular, but right and narratives of the events in which Latinos may have been forgotten but were surely as instrumental as anyone else.
“It’s something overdue for our community,” Martinez said. “We’ve spent so many years trying to make things better.” When the doors open on this dream, she said, everyone will know that you can never “be afraid to put out the truth to our country…We’ve left a legacy.”
Martinez story will certainly be included among many others. The daughter of a WWII veteran who returned to Denver to raise a family and a caring homemaker mother, she lived a life light years beyond a that little brown girl’s wildest dreams.
She recently recalled an indelible school days memory. Her teacher was querying her classmates about their dreams. When she stopped on the only Hispanic child in the room, she Martinez recalled the moment. ‘Ramona,” the teacher said, “your hair is always so neat. You should be a beautician.’
“Not that being a beautician is a bad thing,” Martinez said. But she had so much more in mind—and she achieved it.
She was elected to Denver City Council in 1987 and served multiple terms. She also found a niche in national politics, playing a role in several presidential elections. Today she may be retired but never retiring.
“When I look back, I would never have imagined I was going to do the things I have. Lawrence (her late husband) and I didn’t have the start that many people had. What we did, we did for others.”
The same for the Corrales, New Mexico, native Barela who grew up on a small ranch with nine siblings. “We did it all,” she said. They bailed hay, worked cattle and did the dirty work of ranching. But the hard work forged an identity.
After leaving the ranch, she took jobs with the U.S. Forest Service and steadily worked her way from New Mexico to jobs around the country, each step a higher rung on the ladder. Before retiring, she held top level appointments with different government agencies.
Never afraid of hard work, Barela says conceiving the idea of a museum and bringing it this far has been a lesson in sweat equity, perseverance and love.
“From the beginning, we felt it was such a good thing to do,” she said. “Everyone needs to know the history of our culture and what we’ve done for this country.” The museum or heritage center or whatever it may be called, Barela said, will be confirmation that, “We’re here, we belong here, and no one will ever take it away.”
After far too many stops and starts on a decades-long voyage, the cadre of Martinez, Barela, Baca, Ortega, Bordas, Chavez, Anaya, Espinosa and so many others, are true disciples of a simple axiom: “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
This offseason the Denver Nuggets made some significant moves in an effort to make a deeper run into the playoffs next season. One of those moves included trading for center Jonas Valanciunas who recently committed verbally to the European League team the Panathinaikos who offered him a lucrative deal.
Fortunately for the Nuggets his contract must be fulfilled unless he’s able to buyout his contract. As of Monday, it appears that Valanciunas is willing to hold out in order to get out of his contract to play in the European League.
The Nuggets brought back Bruce Brown for a one-year deal that would bring the guard back to Denver in hopes of sparking another run at the Finals.
In other sports the Denver Broncos training camp will officially began as of July 25th. Camp will continue through the month of August. Currently all dates have been sold out but the team encourages fans to keep an eye out for availability.
The Broncos last day of training camp will wrap up on August 14th five days after their first preseason game against the San Francisco 49ers on August 9th. Two days after their last day of training camp they will face the Arizona Cardinals at 7:30 p.m.
The Colorado Rockies lost three straight to the Boston Red Sox last week losing 2-10 in the last two games and losing 3-9 in their first. The Rockies were in Cincinnati over the weekend to fact the Reds in a three-game series winning game one and losing games two and three.
This week the Rockies are at home to host the Minnesota Twins in a three-games series that wraps up this Sunday at 1:10 p.m.
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston released a new report detailing the full progress and achievements of Denver’s All In Mile High initiative – a comprehensive program centered around long-term solutions for ending street homelessness – in the two years since its launch. The updated report offers a comprehensive look at the strategy and outcomes of the program’s continued effort and highlights the transformation of Denver’s street homelessness landscape.
“Homelessness is not just a moral crisis, but an economic one,” said Mayor Mike Johnston. “Everyone deserves to have a safe place to sleep at night and feel safe walking around our city. In Denver, we’ve created a blueprint for change and provided a national model for ending unsheltered homelessness with urgency, innovation, and humanity – by treating our neighbors with the dignity and compassion everyone deserves. The work isn’t over, but in Denver, we believe our problems are solvable and that we are the ones to solve them, and we are proving that to be true.”
Through the All In Mile High initiative, Denver has delivered the largest multi-year reduction in street homelessness of any major U.S. city, reducing street homelessness by 45 percent. The encampments that once lined Denver’s streets are gone; more than 7,000 people previously experiencing homelessness have transitioned into interim housing, and more than 5,500 have been connected to permanent housing.
A comparison of Denver before and after implementation of the program
Data on outcomes and progress
Details of the multi-step approach and next steps
Community support
“Denver is on the right track,” said Jeff Olivet, former Executive Director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. “Courageous leadership from Mayor Johnston, a great team, and a strong focus on addressing unsheltered homelessness with compassion are beginning to show real results.
This transformation has been driven by the dedicated work of city employees, provider partners, and Denverites across the city. The program’s newest report illustrates how Denver’s coordinated citywide approach to addressing homelessness has efficiently created a system in which people in crisis are connected to the services and stability they need, while navigating permanent housing and long-term support to rebuild their lives.
“This success shows what Denver is made of. The City’s commitment to data-driven solutions is achieving historic reductions in unsheltered homelessness, first for the veteran populations, and now the general population,” said Roseanne Haggerty, CEO of Community Solutions. “Denver’s example should inspire the country that real progress is possible in making homelessness rare and brief.”
Here is a secret worth sharing, especially for day-trippers with a love for aircraft. It’s the Pueblo Weisbrod Air Museum, located at the city’s airport park just east of the city. For those who’ve never been there, or even heard about it, it really is a big deal.
“I would describe it as one of the best in this part of the country,” said Museum President Jeanne Sandidge. While it would be easy to boast, the Memphis-native is, plainly speaking, quite objective about the place she’s been overseeing for the last four years.
Photo courtesy: Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum
The place is easily one of southern Colorado’s ‘must-see’ stops with aircraft—military and civilian—ground equipment and war-time weaponry on display in two massive hangars stretching more than 85,000 square feet. Its collection has machinery that has fought wars going back to the twenties, essentially the early days of aviation. But there is included in the more than 40 aircraft on display, a B-29, one of WWII’s workhorses, and a modern-day jet fighter, the F-15. The F-15 on display, said Sandidge, has a special cachet. It flew in Desert Storm and was credited with taking down a Russian-built MIG
Getting new aircraft for the museum takes a little bit of moxie and finely tuned radar. It also helps if you have a retired General lending a hand. The General, whose name was not shared, “was on the crew of an F-15,” she said. He learned the jet fighter was going to be ‘mothball’ and, after making a few inquiries, got the plane donated to the Pueblo Museum.
It’s the same way the museum got its latest piece of hardware, a U.S. Air Force A-10, popularly known as the ‘Warthog,’ so named for its unique airframe. Of course, the A-10, something of an aerial acrobat for its surreal ability to maneuver across the sky, is still flying missions and is an essential tool in the American arsenal, but this one was ready for the boneyard.
Photo courtesy: Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum
The museum, Sandidge said, is “a great field trip for kids,” and says during May when schools are ready to let out, “we may have four or five school trips in a week.” But springtime isn’t the only time crowds descend on the museum. “Last year we had 13,000 visitors,” a number she said includes a majority from out of town.
Though the museum is a living and lovingly restored history of aircraft, it also sits on ground that has its own hallowed history. Pueblo and its airport, for those who may not know, had its own unique contribution to winning WWII.
Once war was declared in 1941, the government scrambled to stock its armory with every element necessary to win the war. Then, known as the Pueblo Army Air Base, the facility was used to train pilots and crews—especially the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator crews—for missions in the Pacific and European theaters. The late Hollywood icon, Clark Gable, was one of thousands who once called Pueblo home as he did his part to win the war.
Coming up the last weekend of September, Pueblo will host its own airshow with thousands showing up to watch world class aerial demonstrations. But, no surprise, the big draw will be the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds. The Army’s Golden Knights, a team of precision paratroopers, are also scheduled. For tickets to the air show, visit Tickets | Wings of Pride – Pueblo Air Show.
But Sandidge said the air show the museum are not connected. So far, no decision has been made on whether or not the museum will be open while the air show is on. But tickets for the Pueblo Air Museum are available on site. Adult tickets sell for $10 and children under 7 are free. Special discounts for seniors and active-duty military and veterans are available. Visit the museum website at pwam.org for more information.
From Denver, the museum is a quick 90 minute ride south on Interstate 25 to Highway 50 east.
David Conde, Senior Consultant for International Programs
I am on the southern border of the United States in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. I have crossed the border to see both sides of a reality that has been so much in the news.
I was born less than 10 miles from the border with Mexico in this region. My early memories of the area include living in a house in Weslaco, Texas and visiting family in La Villa in a home next to one of the many canals that formed the irrigation system of the Valley.
The memory that I most cherish is that as a 2-year-old walking with a tin cup down a set of stairs that led to the back yard where grandfather was milking a cow. There, grandfather filled the cup, and I drank the milk on the spot.
Sometime later, the family and many of the relatives began a long period as migrants working the fields of the Southwest and Midwest. I never returned to live in the Rio Grande Valley.
However, I have continued to keep in touch with people in the region because so much of my family still lives there. As a matter of fact, our 2008 family reunion was held in South Texas as a way of keeping in touch with those that could not travel to other venues in the country.
I arrived in McAllen, Texas on the border and stayed overnight. One would think that with all of the media commotion, the place would be a beehive of activity with Border Patrol, National Guard and other federal and state agencies filling the space.
Not true. It was a “normal” day with people going about their daily activities.
I remember running into a group of young locals getting ready to board buses for the State of Nebraska. They were contracted to work in the corn fields topping corn stalks.
On the other side, I saw a lot of people rushing to get to work. Among the leading employers are the assembly plants that dot the area.
The plants seem to work round the clock. I have a relative that works the night shift.
I also found that many are allowed to work only halftime. I wonder if that is the case because there are so many applicants for the jobs.
I saw very little law enforcement personnel on both sides. On the American side, the police were busy giving tickets for traffic violators.
On the Mexican side there also appears little police presence other than National Guard patrols in pickup trucks. There was, however, a strike by taxi drivers that sought to blockade some streets in protest for having to pay taxes on their earnings.
For me, the Southern Texas Rio Grande border has always been a special place for hearing the sounds of Spanish, listening and dancing to Onda Chicana, Tex-Mex and Northern Regional music that have unique influences on American country songs. The fast-speaking Spanish on both sides of the border along with the delightful mixing of Spanish and English in the same sentence on the American side makes for unforgettable moments.
This is to say that the border continues to be a cultural enclave that defies the stereotypes being mounted by the media and people that are out to make political points. The anti-immigrant campaign seen in the commercials of Secretary Kristi Noem are loud in this regard.
People on both sides know there are problems of all kinds. The arch of solutions is also there.
The views expressed by David Conde are not necessarily the views of LaVozColorado. Comments and responses may be directed to News@lavozcolorado.com.
America rethinks immigrant role
California, particularly Los Angeles, ICE raids and the immediate reaction by the residents represents a watershed moment in an extraordinary government effort to get rid of Latino immigrants even if they are citizens. ICE is finding out that they cannot go in and do what they want at least with Los Angeles Brown people and their supporters.
The much-touted presence of the military is also finding echoes of confusion. Members of the California National Guard openly questioned why they were there before better thinking allowed them to stand down.
More important is the notion of immigrants as purveyors of hard work as a living concept. People in power are beginning to realize that there is no substitute for hard work although generally few in the country understand or accept it as among the highest priorities that transforms lives.
Throughout our history immigrants that come to the United States have found dignity in work. Perhaps they did not have any other alternative because the choice to leave their country included securing opportunity with many risks.
The wave of devastation caused by lack of Latino immigrant farm labor because of ICE is beginning to weigh on the political class in Washington D.C. An example of this is the issue of tomatoes imported from Mexico. Because 70 percent of tomatoes and other produce served in American tables comes from Mexico, the Trump administration accused the exporter of “dumping,” a term used for artificially lowering the price of an item so that it can unfairly compete in the marketplace. So, it has imposed a 17 percent tariff on tomato imports causing a 10 percent rise in cost of the product in grocery stores.
The tariff is designed to benefit American farmers who welcome the increase in the price, but to what end? We have just seen South Florida farmers plow their tomato crop under because there is no labor to pick it.
Some years back there was an immigration scare, and Alabamans saw their tomatoes rot in the fields because migrant laborers refused to come into the State due to its new anti-immigration laws. The farmers had tried to get domestic labor from a variety of sources but found that they did not last because the work was “too hard.”
Now, Florida Republican Representative Maria Elvira Salazar joined by Texas Democratic Representative Veronica Escobar have introduced the Dignity Act of 2025, an immigration reform package that would allow, among other things, undocumented workers legal status for 7 years with no provisions for residency or citizenship. Like Salazar, farmers and politicians from farming states are showing a sort of desperation that comes from a negative pocketbook experience.
The name of the legislation amounts to an admission not only of the importance of immigrant labor to the American economy but also recognizes the work ethic that characterizes the role of Latino immigrants in the country. However, it does not take into account the deeper intention of an administration that seeks to drastically reduce the number of Latinos and their children in America simply because they are Latinos.
There is a demonstrated fear of Manifest Destiny in reverse. That is, the results of the dispossession of Spanish and Mexican lands and people to achieve continental domination are fraying because of the Latino march toward a demographic majority.
The current national deportation policies favor a much smaller footprint for the Latino community and Latino immigrant access to work. At the same time, there is a great need for hard-working people necessary to build and maintain our prosperity.
The views expressed by David Conde are not necessarily the views of LaVozColorado. Comments and responses may be directed to News@lavozcolorado.com.