Andrea Long-Chavez in Los Angeles contributed to this report. Los Angeles County, California, is home to 1.8 million Latinos. It is also home to Occupy L.A., the Southern California city's answer to Occupy Wall Street-inspired protests across the country and world. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, Latinos comprise 47.7 percent of Los Angeles County's population and 48.5 percent of the residents of the city of Los Angeles. Antonio Villaraigosa, who has been Los Angeles' mayor for the past six years, is Latino and a longtime activist for Latino causes. Even the Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles and the country's highest-ranking Hispanic bishop, Jose Horacio Gomez, is Mexican-American. The...
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