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VIDEO: Why Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Is Anti-Latino Sentiment

Mary Mata March 30, 2011

We recently had the chance to chat with the executive director of the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC), Oscar Chacón, about several issues. Interestingly, Chacón points out that […]

Four Year-old US Citizen, Trapped in Guatemala, Returns Home

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Smugglers Take To The Seas, Authorities Respond

Mary Mata March 29, 2011

More Water Woes for the Border

Mary Mata March 28, 2011

By Melissa del Bosque The drug war plaguing the U.S.-Mexico border since 2006 has all but eclipsed any news about ongoing squabbles over the U.S.-Mexico water treaty. But with an […]

News Taco To Go: Basketball, Radiation, Cuba, Geraldine Ferraro And Libya

Mary Mata

The Final Four in March Madness were unpredictable, but they are: Kentucky, Connecticut, Butler and Virginia Commonwealth. Radiation in Japan is spread to the soil and seawater, even as workers continue […]

Central America Increasingly Caught Up In Drug Wars

Mary Mata March 24, 2011

Drug violence that has plagued Mexico and Colombia for decades is moving into Central America as the U.S., as well as Mexican and Colombian governments, step up enforcement on drug […]

Guatemala’s First Couple Divorces, Wife To Run For President

Mary Mata

Guatemalan President Álvaro Colom and his wife, Sandra Torres filed for divorce recently so that Torres could run for president later this year. According to the Constitution in Guatemala, one […]