In my difficulties in keeping up with current amount of lactnet mail I
missed the beginning of this thread. However, I worked for four years in
clinics with large hispanic clientelle. In this years the breastfeeding
rates went up. Personally I feel this came from empowering the Hispanic
women that the breastfeeding culture they knew from "the old country" was
right and that the American way was NOT better. I still remember the mother
who came in to the clinic at few days post partum with her bottle fed baby.
This was her fourth baby, the first born in the US. She stated that she had
breastfed her first three children happily and successfully.  When we asked
her why she was bottle feeding she said becasue thats what the nurses did in
the hospital so it must be better.  We quickly disabused her of this notion
and she happily went back to breastfeeding.

In our clinic we started a breastfeeding support group modelled on La Leche
meetings.  It turned out to be done in Spanish with English translation
because the majority of women who attended were hispanic.  One member went
on to become a peer counselor.