How Democrats Could Lose The Latino Vote

*Somehow, Latino politics and political party gains and losses are almost always tied to immigration … VL By Alice Ollstein, Think Progress FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA — As lawmakers across the […]

*This story hasn’t gone away just because the media’s attention has changed. VL By Estehr Yu-Hsi-Lee, Think Progress Between five and ten migrant children have been killed since February after […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco This is a tricky proposition, because it’s not only Latinos who can learn from the events in Ferguson. The causes of what we see now as […]

A Guatemalan diplomat struggles to save her countrymen in south Texas and nearly loses herself. Part three of Beyond the Border, a four-part series from The Texas Observer and the […]

By Rebecca Kaplan, CBS News Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, will surrender to authorities around 5 p.m. CDT on Tuesday to be booked and have his mug shot and fingerprints taken, […]

*I’m looking forward to this. Here’s something to whet your appetite. vl By Our Tiempo Take a look at the making of CANTINFLAS a major Hollywood production of the biography […]

By Dr. Gabriela Lemus, NewsTaco The events in Ferguson, Missouri this past week have been both shocking and traumatizing.  We are a nation at war with ourselves and have been since […]

*Someone was bound to ask the question. Here’s an attempt at an answer: less than 1 in 5 Latinos (18%) are following the events in Ferguson closely. Latinos are less […]

By Dr. Henry Flores, NewsTaco The shooting of young Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri by the police has led me to contemplate several issues.  It wasn’t too long ago, I […]

*While it’s good to see this happening, why did it take so long? Congress has been intransigent on immigration for years; immigration has been kicked around for just as long; […]