US Latinos: Many More Than 50M Estimate

US Latinos: Many More Than 50M Estimate

NewsTaco March 15, 2011

[Editor’s note: For several months we at News Taco have thought and said that the number of Latinos in the United States was larger than the roughly 50 million projected […]

Latinos – Believe it or Not – Are Thriving in Tuscaloosa

NewsTaco March 14, 2011

Toosca-donde? Talk about a Latino population boom! (more like a bang, but we won’t go there, for obvious reasons). The number of Latinos in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has almost tripled in the last […]

Few Blacks & Latinos Means No Looting in Japan

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That’s the headline of a forum posted in Topix.com, that builds itself as “…the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to […]

Few Latinos in US Military Top Ranks

NewsTaco March 11, 2011

According to an independent report prepared for the US Congress there is a need for more and better integration at the highest levels of the US military. The report counted […]

Homemade Bomb Targeted at Latino Family in Mississippi

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For no apparent reason, except what the authorities in DeSoto County, Mississippi are thinking is racial violence, a chemical bomb was placed in the mailbox of a Latino family – […]

This Lent I Confess the Sins of Adulthood

NewsTaco March 10, 2011

We live in a very expedient society, and maybe that’s our fault. We’re always in a blind hurry to get there, to get it done, to have it made, to […]

Chipotle Workers Exodus in DC and Virgina

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According to news reports workers at Chipotle restaurants in Washington DC and Virginia have been leaving in droves since immigration officials announced that they were auditing restaurants in the area. […]

No Official Record of “Hispanics” in Vietnam War

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I came across this in one of those “today in history” posts. I didn’t know this, so I imagine that other people would have no reason to know it either. […]

Latino Children are Now the Majority in California

NewsTaco March 9, 2011

The Census numbers are out for California and there’re two big stories to talk about; first, that Latino children are now the majority in California, and second, that as Latinos […]

VIDEO: New Hampshire Bill Would Restrict College Students’ Vote

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After we posted a story about a bill in the New Hampshire legislature that would restrict the voting rights of college students on the grounds that “they lack life experience […]