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Rick Perry Throwing Latinos Under The Bus To Win
By Raul A. Reyes, otherwords.org Texas Governor Rick Perry had a busy summer. In July, he told reporters he felt “called” to run for president. In August, he hosted “The Response,” […]
A Chat With Utah State Senate Minority Leader Ross Romero
News Taco had the opportunity to interview State Senate Minority Leader Ross Romero – D, of Utah earlier this year. Romero arrived to politicos after 10 years of practicing law, three […]
Anna María Chavez Named New Girl Scouts CEO
Girl Scouts of the USA has selected Mexican-American Anna Maria Chavez as its new CEO. As mentioned previously in News Taco, the organization is stepping up efforts to recruit more […]
Latino Civil Rights Figures: Luisa Moreno
By Victoria Cepeda Latina civil rights activist, Luisa Moreno, is better known for having found El Congreso del Pueblo de Habla Española or the The Spanish-Speaking Peoples Congress back in December 1938. […]
What, Exactly, Is A Pocho?
Pocho used to be defined by what it wasn’t. But that was a long time ago. I bring it up as an answer to a question posed by one of […]
To Mobilize 12 Million Latinos, Register 15 Million
Before we begin mobilizing Latino voters for the 2012 presidential election, we must understand the population of available voters in our community as well as the total number of Latino […]
Let’s Mobilize 1 Million Latino Voters In 10 Texas Cities
By the 2012 presidential election, I believe that we can achieve a 60% Latino voter rate in the state Texas. We have just under five hundred days to mobilize a […]
What You Need To Know About The Latino Vote In 2012
The appointment of Katherine Archuleta as political director of president Obama’s re-election campaign is significant, but not for the obvious reasons. Yeah, it’s a big deal that Obama gave a […]
Latinos – Believe it or Not – Are Thriving in Tuscaloosa
Toosca-donde? Talk about a Latino population boom! (more like a bang, but we won’t go there, for obvious reasons). The number of Latinos in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has almost tripled in the last […]
Wanted: A Latino In New Mexico’s U.S. Senate Seat
Representative democracy sometimes isn’t, well, all that representative. The U.S. is set to become Latino-ized, in the sense that nearly 1 in 6 people here will be counted as Latinos […]