Sanders intensifies campaign in NY between blacks and Latinos

Democratic candidate for president of the United States, Bernie Sanders


New York - The Democratic candidate for president of the United States Bernie Sanders stepped up his campaign in New York to try to get Hillary Clinton rival the Latino vote and black, key parts in a state with great diversity and place a large number of delegates in dispute on 19 April.

The senator from Vermont was on Thursday the Bronx to promote his program for the rights of immigrants and low-income Americans. On Friday, Sanders organized a debate in the Harlem neighborhood to try to win the vote of black women.

The act had the presence of actress Rosario Dawson, the Latino Vote association, praised Sanders' commitment to family reunification for deportees and their claims against the high levels of prison population consists of Black and Latino due to political year Bill Clinton as president.

Dawson said the goal of Sanders to get health and free education for all and regretted that Hillary Clinton "is not able to dream so high."

"This is what happens when you do not have to answer to the people, but to large corporations and pharmaceutical companies," criticized the pre-candidate.

One of the black women who attended the act, Tina, 46, told Efe feels "frustrated" every time a woman the reason for his choice not Hillary as a woman.

"Barack Obama failed to break the glass ceiling for blacks. Being black is not enough to end racism. Being a woman is not enough to end the machismo. It takes effort," he said.

The debate "Black women for Sanders" ( "Black women in favor of Sanders" in English) occurred in Table Row, in the Harlem, on the street 115, near Central Park.

The venue is a New York more diverse, as well as St. Mary's Park in Mott Haven in the Bronx, one of the poorest places in the country and where on Thursday Sanders told his supporters county, which has the largest Latino population of the city.

Sanders spoke in a language that everyone understands by living it day to day: the lack of opportunities, poverty, unemployment, high rents, the need for affordable housing, the satisfactory medical care, good schools, free university and immigration.

The Democratic presidential candidate reminded the audience that was born in the county of Brooklyn, the son of an emigrant who had arrived from Poland to New York at 17 years "without a penny in his pocket," having lived in a family that had no money and met on the skin migration challenge.

Both Sanders and Clinton, who was a senator from New York for eight years and has a home in Chappaqua, try to show more New Yorkers than the other.

The State of former secretary also began to step on the gas in his campaign in the state of New York. Clinton spoke to the black population on Wednesday at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, to criticize Republican rivals by discourses that seek to create walls against diversity and divide Americans, and also to snipe Sanders.

Hillary believes that the senator from Vermont is making promises that are impossible to meet and spend more time criticizing the system than proposing alternatives.

In his speech, pre-candidate listed some ideas proposed during the campaign, this time focused on the challenges faced by New York.

The former first lady recalled that the primary elections held so far have resulted in 9 million supporters, one million more than Trump and 2.5 million more than Sanders.

"But this is a wild election, and we will not give anything for finished," insisted Clinton.