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Google Doodles Cesar Chavez on March 31
By Ray Salazar, NewsTaco Google is renowned for its doodles, the images embedded into the search engine’s logo on special occasions. This Easter—March 31—Google is not recognizing the spiritual or […]
The Zen Of Being Latino
By Victor Escalante, NewsTaco According to the Census Bureau 55.2 percent of Latino immigrants in the U.S. are Mexican. While there are exceptions to the rule, Mexicans for the most part are mestizos. These […]
Smithsonian And The Evolution of Mexican Food in America
PRESS RELEASE Programs Examine Origins of Mexican Food and Latino Contributions to Food Production The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and the Smithsonian Latino Center will present two programs […]
How a U.S. Guest Worker Program Worked Before
By Ray Salazar, NewsTaco With the Obama administration and the bipartisan senate Gang of Eight poised to move on comprehensive immigration reform soon, which may include an agricultural guest worker program, our country has […]
GOP Flirts With Immigration Reform Again
By Cindy Casares, Texas Observer Every so often, the GOP is beaten badly enough that some Republicans realize that appearing to support immigrants might be their ticket to relevancy with […]
Book Review: “Barrio Boy” By Ernesto Galarza
Reviewed by Luis R. Torres, Latinopia A Second Look at a Classic of Chicano Literature Some weeks back Jesús Treviño, the captain of the Latinopia ship, and I agreed to […]
NewsTaco’s One Year Birthday Is Today
So NewsTaco’s “official” one-year anniversary is today, but if I were to really try to put a date on when NewsTaco was born, I could take it back to my […]
When Women Hate Women: An Abuelita Story
My maternal grandmother was very cruel to me when I was growing up. To this day, I’m not sure why, but I can only speculate that most of it was […]
Memories of Sandías and South Texas
Several of my relatives raised watermelons, and one of my memories as an “honorary” farmworker (because I didn’t really have to do it), was being a pitcher who followed the […]