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Watch: We’re about to get a decade named after Hispanics … again!

Mary Mata October 12, 2010

I knew it was going to happen. After all, it has happened every decade since 1970, that I know. Last month, the Economist discovered Latino voters. This month, it was […]

101 Year-Old Texas Woman Finally Becomes a Citizen

Mary Mata

Fiorina & Whitman ‘Go Latino’ and Drink Tequila

Mary Mata October 11, 2010

There Ain’t No Prí­ncipe Azul Out There

Mary Mata

So I’m a twentysomething, educated Latina, and obviously my Mexican relatives are all too eager for me to get married and start pumping out babies.  It’s just their way.  Imagine […]

Diabetes in Cake-Pie Form

Mary Mata

This is probably one of the most amazing things I’ve ever imagined in my entire life.  Being from a family of diabetics and would-be diabetics who love pastries — I […]

NYT: Latinos will skip election over immigration

Mary Mata October 10, 2010

Like Latinos were turning out in humongous numbers and elevated percentages before, right? We’ll see. The opposite might be true, so says The New York Times.

La Llorona is Alive…in LA…

Mary Mata

We all know about La Llorona, variously told by abuelita, about La Malinche or during Halloween/Día de los Muertos.  Well, now Universal Studios Hollywood has introduced her as part of […]