I was using Dragon yrs ago to make notes while keeping my hands free (no not for the usual online reasons) for digital graphics, but the memory, cache and storage requirements even on top of the line systems at the time simply didn't allow for simultaneous movement between sound and graphics. The wait time was just counter to the ease of speech.

I always liked vox for computer commands and dictation and stuck to that but now that memory and storage alternatives are cheaper, I want to incorporate Dragon again. My old English one's working out fine for now. (Stupid Dragon trick: eat celery or chips and swap the ensuing "poetry" with fellow speech-to-text users.)

I use a tablet for digital art, handwriting, crop-marks etc. and dictation to text commentary is easier for transmission and editing into a report format.

I wish tableture hadn't lagged behind in development, though. I kept my old Palm around just to use that function. I learned the Palm digital alphabet (handwriting to computer txt) years ago and find it indispensable; it's like doing calculations on an abacus, a skill I learned a long time ago and which has come in surprisingly handy for someone "innumerate" like myself.

The cultural differences are wide and narrow.  The language is the common thread but the experiences are huge.  Dominicans and Hondurans are as different to one another as Mexicans and Panamanians that live here in the USA.  The Puerto Rican election is not that much of a barometer to how mainland Latinos will vote with respect to Obama if he is the nom in the fall.

Cubans in southern FL are notoriously republican.  Texas Latinos are pretty fluid between the parties.