Combating Climate Change is a Distinct and Top Foreign Policy Issue for Latinos
Combating Climate Change is a Distinct and Top Foreign Policy Issue for Latinos
*NewsTaco published a story about a Chicago Council on Global Affairs report that says Latinos are interested in foreign affairs. Our take was that this isn’t news, that at best it’s […]
Thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations benefits art world
*A long time coming, this sounds like a very good deal. I want to hear from the artists in the Taquista community. What do you think about this? VL By […]
Punjabi Sikh-Mexican American community fading into history
*These things are true: Latinos are leading the American transformation to a multi-racial society. This is because Latinos are multi-racial to begin with, and because Latinos are marrying non-Latinos in […]
Spic-O-Rama: Where ‘Spic’ Comes From, And Where It’s Going
*What I like about this is how young generations have taken a word that in the past was flung with a hate filled jagged edge, and smoothed it over with […]
Latinos Mention Tom Perez as Possible Replacement for Mikulski
*A little inside baseball for a Wednesday morning. Tom Perez to replace Barbara Mikulsky? Hmmmm …. By Fox News Latino Labor Secretary Tom Perez was the name bouncing around Latino […]
Death on Sevenmile Road
By Melissa del Bosque, The Texas Observer The pickup truck accelerated. Jose Isabel Coj Cumar could see the glow of the sun through the thin black fabric that concealed him […]
Pasties, Soccer and other Welsh Gifts to Mexico
By Phyllis Marquitz, La Vitamina T Last Sunday was St. David’s Day, a Welsh Holiday, which you can read about thanks to Wikipedia here. My husband (Jason) and I have Welsh […]
Latinos, CPAC, and the GOP
By Dr. Henry Flores, NewsTaco Last week a great drama played itself out in Washington, D.C. Congress is luchando con el Presidente over funding for the Department of Homeland Security […]
Arpaio’s contempt could mean payout for profiled victims
*Things clear and unclear: there is videotaped evidence, corroborated by interviews, that Arpaio’s deputies continued to profile for undocumented immigrants after a federal judge ruled that the practice must stop. […]
New poll: Emanuel, Garcia in ‘dead heat’ in mayoral runoff
*This is important for three reasons: first because of the top line news itself. The fact that Chuy Garcia is in a dead heat with incumbent Mayor Rahm Emanuel and […]
