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Los Angeles Times Mexico City bureau chief Hector Tobar discusses the dawn of a Latino civil rights movement. Actor Ricardo Antonio Chavira explains how he landed his Desperate Housewives role.
Hector Tobar
Hector Tobar
Hector Tobar: Latinos are getting a double message.
The Mexico City bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, Hector Tobar is also author of Translation Nation, which looks at how Hispanic Americans are reinventing the American community, and the acclaimed The Tattooed Soldier, his first novel. He's the son of Guatemalan immigrants and grew up in Southern California. After college graduation, he worked at a community newspaper in San Francisco before moving to the Times. Tobar shares the '92 Pulitzer Prize for the Times' coverage of the L.A. riots.
Ricardo Antonio Chavira
Ricardo Antonio Chavira
Ricardo Antonio Chavira on "Desperate Housewives."
The hit ABC series Desperate Housewives took Ricardo Antonio Chavira from relative anonymity to international fame. The South Texas native has credits in all areas of the business, including The Alamo and several indie films, HBO's Six Feet Under and numerous guest-starring TV roles, and onstage at top regional theaters. An activist in the fight against breast cancer, which felled his mother when he was 15, Chavira is San Antonio's honorary spokesman for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.