Douglas A. Saballos


Doug is President of the South Florida Chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and is involved with LULAC's efforts to pass the *American DREAM Act.  He is also the South Florida representative of Defend the Honor. He retired from the U.S. Postal Service in 2005. He was president of the Miami chapter of The Hispanic Society, United States Postal Service Inc., until 2000.

Doug was born in New York City, N.Y., of Nicaraguan parents who immigrated to the USA during World War II. Both parents proudly contributed to the U.S. war effort and his father was a U.S. Army WW II veteran. Doug was raised in Nicaragua, but returned to the U.S. and volunteered to serve in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war. He served in Vietnam and in Germany. He considers his community involvement as his duty as a citizen. Doug is currently doing research on a book project. He graduated Cum Laude with a  B.A. in History from the Universidad Centro Americana (UCA) Jesuit University in Managua, Nicaragua in 1978. He recently returned to college and earned an A.A. in Journalism from Miami Dade College, graduating Phi Theta Kappa in 2007.


* The DREAM Act is proposed federal legislation that would provide limited legal status for high school and college-age students who were brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents as minors but wish to attend college or serve in the armed forces of the United States.