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Jazz De México
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco I don’t know if you believe in this kind of stuff, but somewhere between Tuesday afternoon and Thursday late morning most everyone I knew was getting […]
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Friday September 14, 2012 Castro Says Both Candidates Need More Hispanic Outreach (Daily Political): Julian Castro, the Mayor of San Antonio, Texas and the keynote speaker at the recent Democratic National Convention said that […]
New Chupacabra Book Review: Aztlan
From the textmex obsessed imagination of William A. Nericcio My review of Benjamin Radford’s rad book on the Chupacabra for the University of New Mexico Press,Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast […]
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Thursday September 13, 2012 Romney, Obama to appeal to Hispanics in back-to-back broadcasts (EFE/Fox News Latino): Spanish-language network Univision will broadcast the forums “to discuss education and the future of […]
Richard Carmona Could Be Arizona’s First Latino U.S. Senator
By Griselda Nevarez, Voxxi The U.S. Senate race in Arizona just got a lot more interesting after a new poll shows Democrat Richard Carmona neck-and-neck with Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff […]
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Wednesday September 12, 2012 Hispanics and values: How the GOP and the DNC address Hispanic issues (Washington Post): Most political observers believe that the reason why, despite their primarily conservative values, […]
5 Ways Courts Say Texas Discriminated Against Minority Voters
By Lois Beckett and Suevon Lee, ProPublica How does Texas discriminate against minority voters? Federal judges counted the ways. Last Tuesday, a panel of federal court judges ruled that new […]
Voter Fraud Database Uncovers No Evidence That Photo ID Is Needed
By Natasha Khan and Corbin Carsoin, NEWS21 A News21 analysis of 2,068 alleged election-fraud cases since 2000 shows that while fraud has occurred, the rate is infinitesimal, and in-person voter impersonation […]
You Know Julian Castro’s Star Is Bright When…
Victor Landa, NewsTaco So he did the big speech at the DNC, big yawn… The true test of a national politician is when late night comedians mention your name. But you know […]
First Mexican American Delegate From Tennessee Is Newly Minted Citizen
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Ivan Serna is an unlikely delegate to the Democratic National Convention, but he doesn’t see it that way. He’s the first Mexican-American delegate from the state of […]