Resumen Noticiero: Giffords, Congress, Salud and King
It’s been a crazy week, but 2011 is just getting started. We wanted to wrap up what was so that we can get down to the business of what will be. Have a great weekend!
- A Latino, who’s also gay, helped save the life of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
- Scoop: The day Giffords was being shot, Maricopa Co. Attorney Bill Montgomery was calling for Governor Brewer to take a gun to the border to enforce immigration laws.
- U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa was mean and then whined a lot.
- Latino politicos in Congress, in New York, Chicago, Latinos trying to save César Chávez Day in Texas.
- Food: Pupusas in LA, Pozole Rojo, eating chile and nopales.
- We wondered about a report claiming that Mexico’s drug war may have claimed as many as 50,000 lives.
- Health: Latinas in LA have cervical cancer rates twice the national average and Latino neighborhoods are disproportionately affected by nursing home closures.
- Ron Rivera became the third Latino NFL coach.
- Two men in Austin were arrested for DWI while riding a mule and a donkey.
- Me and my Spanish expletives!
- Latinos, mobile phones and the digital divide.
- A Latino Border Patrol agent arrested for harboring his own father, a man without documentation. He also harbored another immigrant and had a penchant for methamphetamines.
- Jerry Brown’s budget may hurt California Latinos.
- Finally, in a move my abuelita could appreciate, Pope John Paul II is going to beatified this year — taking him one step closer to sainthood.
