{"id":19282,"date":"2023-06-16T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=19282"},"modified":"2023-06-19T21:12:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T01:12:24","slug":"sen-ossoff-commends-que-pasa-founder-moises-velez-for-his-service-to-middle-georgias-latino-community","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-commends-que-pasa-founder-moises-velez-for-his-service-to-middle-georgias-latino-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Commends \u2018\u00bfQu\u00e9 Pasa?\u2019\u00a0Founder Moises Velez for His Service to Middle Georgia\u2019s Latino Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Macon, Ga.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is recognizing Moises Velez, founder of the&nbsp;<em>Que Pasa&nbsp;<\/em>newspaper, for his years of service to Georgia\u2019s Latino community with an Official U.S. Senate Commendation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 years ago, Mr. Velez founded Macon\u2019s first Spanish newspaper to ensure that members of the Latino community could stay informed and up to date on important events in Macon and across the state in their preferred language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The extraordinary contributions of Georgia\u2019s Latino community help keep Georgia strong and united, and Mr. Velez\u2019s leadership in the field of communications continues to be a trusted source of information for residents across Middle Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Please find Sen. Ossoff\u2019s Official U.S. Senate Commendation to Moises Velez&nbsp;<\/u><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/118\/crec\/2023\/06\/14\/169\/104\/CREC-2023-06-14-pt1-PgS2095-3.pdf\">aqu\u00ed<\/a><\/strong><strong><u>&nbsp;<\/u><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/118\/crec\/2023\/06\/14\/169\/104\/CREC-2023-06-14-pt1-PgS2095-3.pdf\">in the Congressional Record<\/a><\/strong><strong><u>&nbsp;and below:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMr. President, I rise to commend Moises Velez of Macon, Georgia, for his years of service to Georgia\u2019s Latino community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c25 years ago, Mr. Velez founded&nbsp;<em>\u00bfQu\u00e9 Pasa?<\/em>, the first Spanish newspaper in the Macon community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMr. Velez\u2019s vision of keeping newly arrived immigrants informed about vital services available to them in Middle Georgia and across the State quickly transformed the newspaper into a trusted news source for the Latino community on important issues like health care, immigration, and education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201c\u00bfQu\u00e9 Pasa?<\/em>&nbsp;keeps the growing Latino community in Middle Georgia informed about news and events statewide. Mr. Velez\u2019s success led to his recognition as one of Georgia\u2019s 50 most influential Latinos by the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMr. Velez is a representation of the extraordinary contributions of Georgia\u2019s Latino community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMr. President, as Georgia\u2019s U.S. Senator, I commend and recognize Moises Velez for his contributions to Georgia\u2019s Latino community and years of service to the Macon community.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macon, Ga.&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is recognizing Moises Velez, founder of the&nbsp;Que Pasa&nbsp;newspaper, for his years of service to Georgia\u2019s Latino community with an Official U.S. Senate Commendation. 25 years ago, Mr. Velez founded Macon\u2019s first Spanish newspaper to ensure that members of the Latino community could stay informed and up to date on [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19282","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/19282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/19282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19284,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/19282\/revisions\/19284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}