bracero
CARDBOARD BOX DREAMS: A Bracero’s Story
By Celia Viramontes, Tell Your True Tales The train screeched to a halt in Empalme, Sonora. Don Luis adjusted his wide-brimmed sombrero over his head and clutched his small bag […]
The Bracero Treaty changed America
*Important, lest we forget. Timely as well, given the influx of immigrant children at the border. The cherry picking of immigrants “we want and don’t want” began with the Bracero […]
Northwestern University hosts “Bittersweet” exhibit about bracero guest worker program
By Ray Salazar, NewsTaco The Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibit “Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964” will be on display at Northwestern University through March 28 at the Dittmar Gallery on the first floor of […]
Bracero Pay Day on Hold
By Mónica Ortiz Uribe, Latino USA While Congress debates provisions for a new guest worker program, elderly Mexican farmworkers called braceros protest about retirement money they say they’re owed. Mónica Ortiz […]
La Uva, Mexican-American winemaking: Lucha, Oportunidad y Familia
By Eduardo Díaz, Director – Smithsonian Latino Center (3 minute read) The advent of World War II (WWII) created a serious labor shortage in the United States. With so many men […]
The radically old-fashioned solution for America’s immigration crisis
*Latinos will fuel 25% of the U.S. economy by 2020, we will purchase 50% of homes in the next 20 years, we’re increasing in college enrollment when overall enrollment is […]
I’m the first House Democrat elected since Trump. Here’s what my party should do.
*The first Democrat elected to congress after Trump is Latino, He says the first order of business should be getting past the midterms. Then, communicate. VL By Jimmy Gomez, Washington […]
Long-Lost Photos Reveal Life of Mexican Migrant Workers in 1950s America
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco (1 minute read) TIME magazine has published a series of revealing photographs of the Bracero program from 1957. Sixty years ago the Saturday Evening Post […]
As Trump Strikes Syria, We Should Revisit the History Lessons of US Intervention in Central America
*Why you should read this: Because while we focus on Trump’s disdain for Latin American’s we shouldn’t forget that the U.S. has a long history of meddling in Latin America. […]
The Sadness of The Border Wall
*Why you should read this: Because these words and pictures are so truthful that they’re a good reason to invest your time on them. Because we need more stories that […]