National Latino Polls Are A Slice Of Misleading

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Editor If you were to take the latest Quinnipiac University poll at its face value (as most pundits, media outlets and commentators have) you’d come away with a […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Editor The U.S. Justice Department slammed their hammer soundly against one of the nation’s largest banks today for discriminating against Latinos and blacks. The announcement, reported in the Washington Post,  was made early this […]

By Rebeldes, Latino Rebels You don’t think the US Latino vote is not important? Conventional political wisdom pretty much has said over and over again that for Mitt Romney to win the […]

Wednesday July 11, 2012 Joe Biden to Latino voters: Mitt Romney “wants you to show your papers, but he won’t show us his” (Houston Chronicle):  Vice President Joe Biden used […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Editor I live in Texas. No, my daddy doesn’t grow oil, and I don’t wear boots or ride a horse. On the other hand, yes, Rick […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Editor Forty five years ago the Voting Rights Act (VRA) was all but a slam-dunk. In 1965 the law was approved by the US House of […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Editor The big news this week for those handicapping the Presidential horse race came from the recent Gallup poll that measured political identity among Latinos. It matters among the […]

Friday July 6, 2012 27 – Median Age for Hispanics is Lower Than Median Age for Total U.S. Population (Pew Research Center):  Hispanics in the United States on the whole […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Editor It hasn’t yet been a month and already the scammers have come out. There are reports that DREAMers have been targeted by immigration scams; unscrupulous […]

Thursday July 5, 2012 U.S. immigration agent injured in Mexico border shooting (Reuters):  A U.S. immigration agent was shot and wounded during a surveillance operation on a desolate stretch of […]