Conservative Hispanics are growing increasingly impatient with flailing GOP candidates who are refusing to drop out of the race, believing the time is now to coalesce around a contender who can beat Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
It’s not a dynamic unique to the GOP Hispanic community, but the leaders are feeling a particular urgency to unite behind a candidate before the Nevada caucuses on Feb. 23. And they’re banking on Saturday’s South Carolina primary to force the issue.
“I think the bottom two need to quit regardless of who it is,” Massey Villarreal, the former chairman of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and head of the Republican Hispanic National Assembly told POLITICO.
Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement is the most comprehensive account of the arduous struggle by Mexican Americans to secure and protect their civil rights. It is also a companion volume to the critically acclaimed, four-part documentary series of the same title. This volume is a testament to the Mexican American community’s hard-fought battle for social and legal equality as well as political and cultural identity.
Since the United States-Mexico War in 1846-1848, Mexican Americans have striven to achieve full rights as citizens. From peaceful resistance and violent demonstrations, when their rights were ignored or abused, to the establishment of support organizations to carry on the struggle and the formation of labor unions to provide a united voice, the movement grew in strength and numbers. However, it was during the 1960s and 1970s that the campaign exploded into a nationwide groundswell of Mexican Americans laying claim, once and for all, to their civil rights and asserting their cultural heritage. They took a name that had been used disparagingly against them for years—Chicano—and fashioned it into a battle cry, a term of pride, affirmation and struggle.
By Eliza Collins, Politico (4.3 minute read)
