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Halloween, Día de los Muertos and Holloweening
Why? ¿Por qué? Why is it that when we mix religion and cultural nationality there is confusion? I was a child who grew up with Halloween. I would put on […]
NewsTaco’s Rally to Restore Sanity Coverage
[Editor’s Note: This post was written by David Lauricella.] WASHINGTON — The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear drew hundreds of thousands of fake news devotees to the nation’s capital […]
The Trouble With a Latino Republican Balancing Act
Being a Latino Republican in this electoral cycle filled with anti-immigrant, often interpreted as anti-Latino, sentiment is tough.  Gerry Shih of The Bay Citizen writes about Californian Lieutenant Governor candidate Abel […]
GOP Accused of Nasty Racism
The saddest thing is, I think it’s healthy to have a dialogue between political sides, but this is a bit much. Â I’ve got two items for you today. Â One is […]
Latino Fatalism May Cause Cancer Deaths
The International Journal of Behavioral Medicine is set to release a study showing that the Catholic-ish belief that things are in God’s hands may lead Latinas to believe that cancer […]
Paperless: DREAM Act Students in the NYTimes
The New York Times ran a long piece about students the DREAM Act would benefit last week, even though the writer made sure to point out the same lame arguments […]
Was ‘Don’t Vote’ Campaign Real? Or a Way to Keep Getting Paid?
With the mid-term elections nearing, everything is heating up and things are getting intense, and in some cases, a bit overwrought. Check here, here and here, if you don’t believe […]
Tantos Tacos: Hate, Escándalo, Food, Tech, Mexico and Hate
This week on NewsTaco we talked about food, hate, politics, voting, tech and a little more hate. It was a long week! We started off the week talking about hate, […]
Hablando Bien: The Dynamics of Spanglish
Recently I was having a conversation with a gentleman from the Deep South in San Antonio, Texas and he informed me that he’s been told, “Hispanics are too lazy to […]
Keep ‘Em Dumb So ‘Illegals’ Don’t Get Our Jobs
In an obvious attempt to keep unauthorized immigrant children from getting post-high-school education, The Nation reports that Georgia has joined a growing number of states are making it increasingly difficult […]