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Xicanosmotic Art: Raúl Gonzalez III
From the textmex obsessed imagination of William A. Nericcio Just getting around to pondering the rad painterly stylings of Raúl Gonzalez III–here are two prints from a recent issue of Juxtapoz magazine. […]
Unaccompanied Migrant Children Requires Congressional Attention
By Lavinia Limon, The Texas Observer Despite border fences, increased militarization and drones patrolling our southern border, every year thousands of children from Latin America traveling without parents or adult […]
Softening Immigration Tone In Texas
By Duke Machado, Voxxi Shortly before midnight, a person went to a microphone in the Fort Worth auditorium and made a motion to end a bitter debate over immigration. And just […]
Steven Seagal Hunting Immigrants In Texas
By Melissa del Bosque Last seen driving a SWAT team tank through a man’s home in Phoenix, which resulted in a dead puppy and a lawsuit, middle-aged action hero Steven […]
Narcos Have Killed Any Hope For Reynosa
By Melissa del Bosque Reynosa is crumbling under the dark spell of organized crime and narco-traficantes. This is not the city I used to know a decade ago with its vibrant […]
The Pain Of Losing A Son In Iraq, One Latino’s Story
[Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in The Texas Observer and was written by Eugene Richards.] Carlos Arredondo: I remember the war in Nicaragua in the 1980s, the Contra scandal, […]
Mexico Drug War Aid Delays Investigated
Somewhere between President George W. Bush announcing in 2007 that the U.S. would give México $1.4 billion dollars to fight drug cartels (Mérida Initiative) and now, just $362 million in […]
Sheriff Arpaio Stand’s Down His Dragnets, but…
So at first I read this little item from Fox News in Phoenix and felt mildly concerned. Arizona’s sheriff Joe Arpaio has eased off on his famous traffic patrols in […]