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Cinco De Mayo: Whose Holiday Is It, Anyway?

NewsTaco May 5, 2014

*Two things come to mind: Cinco de Mayo is celebrated more in the U.S. than in Mexico, and the celebration here is more about beer and marketing. It can be […]

The 10 best Latin American books of all time

NewsTaco May 2, 2014

Cinco de Mayo, the Confederacy, and Gen. Jo Shelby

NewsTaco April 30, 2014

I say Hispanic. You say Latino. How did the whole thing start?

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*Hispanic of Latino? It helps to know where the terms come from. There’s a general agreement that both terms are imposed, not chosen, and that opens the door for the […]

5 Hispanics in the TIME ’100 most influential people’

NewsTaco April 25, 2014

*There’s so much to take apart here.  TIME always generates controversy with it’s influentials lists, but the keys are TIME’s definition of “influential” and understanding the motive for the list: […]

Don’t ‘Es-stress’ Over Spanglish, Say Some Scholars

NewsTaco April 24, 2014

*“In un placete de la Mancha of which nombre no quiero remembrearme.” A Spanglish translation of Don Quixote is due to be published in 2015. I can’t wait. Meanwhile, a group […]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at 87

NewsTaco April 17, 2014

By Chris Kraul and Anne-Marie O’Connor, Los Angeles Times Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Prize-winning Colombian novelist whose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” enchanted millions of readers around the world and […]