Throughout the 1980s and ’90s, Mario J. Aranda, an advocate for immigrants’ rights, was a vocal and visible presence in Chicago, appearing in local media and fighting political battles. “It was advocacy all over the place,” is how Mario Aranda Jr., Mr. Aranda’s oldest son, described his father. “He saw need and jumped in.”Mr. Aranda in those years was head of bilingual education for the state of Illinois. He worked on Harold Washington’s successful 1983 mayoral campaign, bringing out the Latino vote for Chicago’s first Black mayor. In 1993, he was named president and publisher of Exito!, a Spanish-language newspaper owned by the Chicago Tribune.

Source: New York Times October 09, 2020 17:48 UTC