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Article: WOMEN: HISPANIC WOMEN GAIN POLITICAL SPACE IN U.S.A.
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- February 14, 1996
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Inter Press Service English News Wire
02-14-1996
MIAMI, Feb. 13 (IPS) -- Maria Echavesta could hardly have wished
for a more powerful friend when she joined the board of Directors
of the New World Foundation back in the early 1990s. Hillary
Clinton, wife of then aspiring Democratic presidential candidate
Bill Clinton, asked Echavesta to serve as her husband's Hispanic
community campaign coordinator.
Since then Echavesta, a lawyer and the daughter of Central
American peasants, has distinguished herself politically after
joining the Clinton administration in 1992 as administrator of the
Labor Department's wage and hours division.
Echavesta is one of a growing number of women of Latin American
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