Speaking in Whistles: The Whistled Language of Oaxaca, Mexico

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco This is so NewsTaco! I watched it this morning – a short documentary about people in the mountains of Oaxaca who communicate through a whistling language. […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco The immigration reform debate is complicated and filled with nuance, case in point is the discussion over whether undocumented workers pay income tax and whether they […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco The Associated Press reports that the State of Arizona is at it again. This time the State’s legal arm, along with Gov. Jan Brewer, is defending […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco According to a Hispanic Business article, Latino home buyers are being caught between a dream and a real estate bubble – and that’s making it hard […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco A really interesting piece today in Media Matters about how two faces of the same Fox TV coin cover the same issue. Specifically, the recent news […]

By Francois Grosjean, Ph.D., Psychology Today Most bilingual children acquire their languages “naturally” in the sense that they are brought up in a home and/or an environment which require the use of […]

Victor Landa, NewsTaco Finally. There’s something decidedly sarcastic in writing that. Yesterday, late in the afternoon, my Twitter feed fluttered a little about an Associated Press announcement. The AP has […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Little by little, positive change is coming. This time it was the venerable Associated Press that announced that it is dropping the “I” word from it’s […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Another week, another Friday, another chance to hear great jazz from the the best jazz musicians! Jazz de Mexico! It’s the best Latino jazz musicians and […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco If there was ever a doubt about what the majority of Americans are thinking regarding immigrants and immigration, a just-published Pew Research Center for People & […]