Will Doran and Laura Brache, The Raleigh News and Observer – During the 2018 elections a high school student in rural Yadkin County, Cristo Salazar, noticed the Latino community he had grown up in was not very politically engaged. This story is a subscriber exclusive TOP VIDEOS × “A lot of them actually did not vote because it was just such a hard process for them to figure out how to do it, how to register, and where to (vote),” he said. “Not only that, but there was no access to information on who these candidates were and, you know, what they represented, who they supported, and what they supported.” This bothered him. So he left the area where his parents, immigrants from Mexico, had settled in the North Carolina foothills. He moved to Raleigh and helped out with the 2020 campaign of a Latino candidate, Ricky Hurtado.

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