• The June issue of Hispanic Business ranked the top 500 Latino owned companies in the U.S. The top three and their 2009 revenues were:
  1. Molina Healthcare Inc., Long Beach, CA, Healthcare services, $3.7 billion
  2. Brightstar Corp., Miami, Wireless distribution and services, $2.8 billion
  3. MasTec Inc., Coral Gables, FL, Infrastructure development, $1.6 billion
• "Multiracial Americans stand poised to become the country’s new racial majority, a long-anticipated turning point that promises to further transform an increasingly diverse country," Aol News reported June 11. "According to new census data, babies born to nonwhite minorities made up 48.6 percent of all U.S. births between July 2008 and July 2009 and are on track to outpace the number of babies born to whites. Before long, whites will no longer be a majority in the U.S."
• More that half the nation’s young Hispanic voters do not identify themselves as liberal or conservative, though almost three in four say Democratic President Obama is doing a good job," according to a poll released by Democracia USA. "The poll, however, did find that young Hispanics who do register to vote are signing up as Democrats by a four-to-one margin over Republicans or as Independents." - HispanicBusiness.com, June 10, 2010
• Republicans in Nevada and New Mexico chose Hispanics in their primaries to represent them for governor in the November elections. Susana Martinez, the district attorney from Dona Ana County in New Mexico, defeated former state GOP chairman Allen Weh, as well as State Rep. Janice Arnold Jones; public relations company owner Doug Turner, and Pete Domenici Jr., son of the former U.S. senator. In Nevada, former federal Judge Brian Sandoval became the first Hispanic to claim a major-party gubernatorial nomination ousting incumbent Gov. Jim Gibbons. - HispanicBusiness.com, June 2 and 10, 2010
• The federal government will sue Arizona challenging the states’ new immigration law, according to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The secretary made her remarks on Ecuadorean television during a visit to Latin America. - PoliticsDaily.com, June 18, 2010
• "Mexico announced some of the toughest restrictions in its history on dollar cash transactions (June 15) in an attempt to fight money laundering that is fueling an increasingly bloody drug war," the New York Times wrote in its June 16 edition. "Tourists and Mexicans without bank accounts will be limited to exchanging a maximum of $1,500 per month."
• Colombian voters overwhelmingly elected Juan Manuel Santos as their new president, "an American-educated former defense minister who oversaw a forceful counterinsurgency against the country’s rebel groups." - New York Times, June 21, 2010