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How a Mexican cowboy laid down a challenge for Hitler and the Nazis

NewsTaco November 2, 2015

*Fascinating! Imagine 250 contingents of Mexican charros, trained and ready to defend their country against a Hitler invasion. It actually happened. VL By Roberta Bosco, El Pais In 1942, two […]

Bourdain: Trump’s deportation plan would ‘shut down’ every US restaurant

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Warship honoring Latino Marine christened at Maine shipyard

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University of Louisville apologizes over Hispanic Halloween costumes

NewsTaco October 30, 2015

*A couple of things here …  I don’t know if the headline writer was going for an alliteration effect – Hispanic Halloween – but the incident at the University of […]

There’s a Little “Wild” Out There For All of Us

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*What is a Chicano environmentalist? It’s not that far-fetched an idea. VL By Jose G. Gonzalez, Medium Growing up, my memories of the outdoors are a combination, a blend, amestizaje […]

Robert Montemayor dies at 62, helped LA Times win Pulitzer with series on Latino community

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*Robert’s contribution to the prize-winning three-week series of reports “focused on the difficult situation of students, many of whom, he wrote, ‘have traditionally been neglected and often are regarded by teachers […]

To Help Small Businesses, Help Immigrants

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*Teresa Tritch breaks-down the numbers behind the immigration-hurts-small-business idea. Tritch found in her research that 20 percent of the U.S. workforce is employed by small businesses; that the vast majority […]