Translated Drug Labels Are Often Wrong
Translated Drug Labels Are Often Wrong
This hits really close to home. I have a 90 year old father who hasn’t been feeling well these past few days. The doctor says he caught a virus and […]
Offensive Against Arizona-Type Laws Gains Momentum
Last week’s defeat of five stringent immigration bills in the Arizona legislature was no fluke. Ever since that state’s notorious SB1070 was signed into law, Arizona has become the focus […]
51% of Border Patrol Agents Set to Retire by 2012
This puts a whole new spin on the question “Who’s minding the store?” While some legislators in Washington and in state capitols across the country are calling for stronger border […]
Mexico Journalists Sign Narco-Violence Coverage Pact
What is it that they say about strength and numbers? 40 Mexican media groups that represent more than 700 newspapers, television and radio stations gathered for what looked like a […]
3rd Grade Reading Homework: What is an Illegal Alien?
This is just plain wrong. But it’s wrong in so many different ways that it’s beyond belief. A third grade public school class in Duluth, GA, was given a reading […]
More US Latinos Live in Most Polluted Areas
When I was a kid I used to ride the public transportation in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico: over crowded and harried where the bus didn’t actually stop at the corner, it […]
Latino Census Headline is Off the Mark
So the big headline this morning concerning Latinos and the US Census is that Latinos are now 1 in 6 of the US population. Honestly though, the drum roll on […]
AZ Senate Racist Letter Accused of Being a Fraud
The controversy over the racially tinged letter from a Tucson substitute teacher, read aloud on the floor of the Arizona state Senate, continues to grow. News Taco reported that the […]
4 Year-Old US Citizen “Trapped” in Guatemala
Her name is Emily Ruiz, a US born citizen from Long Island. She was on a return trip from Guatemala where she had traveled with her grandfather. The plane she […]
Obama: US-Latin America Past is Past
Ask pretty much any person from Latin America and they’ll tell you that the one word that defines the US relationship to that part of the world is paternalistic, at times either meddling or […]