News Taco To Go: Math, Chile, GOP, Norway And Obama

News Taco To Go: Math, Chile, GOP, Norway And Obama

Mary Mata July 27, 2011

How To Get More Latinos Involved In Math And Science HidroAysen Hydroplant Is Not The Only Solution GOP Candidates Ignore Latinos, Then Lie To Them Norway, Latinos And The Far […]

GOP Candidates Ignore Latinos, Then Lie To Them

Mary Mata July 26, 2011

If you ask me, and no one did I’m just saying, this is a pretty lame way to treat a huge voting bloc. Let me break it down. The reason […]

GOP, Dems Want Latino Votes, What Do We Want In Return?

Mary Mata

That the Republican Party is busy recruiting Latinos is not surprising, given the recent success of Marco Rubio in Florida and Raul Labrador, the first ever Latino elected to the […]

News Taco To Go: Romney, Immigration, Abuse, Spanish Ads

Mary Mata

Mitt Romney’s Mexican Family Caution On Immigration Shooting Immigrants Comment Harkens Back To Jim Crow Domestic Violence Facts And Resources Spanish TV Ads Are Not Latino Politics

GOP Better At Recruiting Latino Candidates Than Democrats

Mary Mata July 25, 2011

This is how it breaks down: the number of Latino Democratic politicos is down, the number of Republican Latino politicos is up. It’s not a hard calculus to understand. The […]

President Obama: Help Latino Voters Help You

Mary Mata

President Barack Obama spoke to the National Council of La Raza conference today and touched on several things, among them were reasons why his administration has been unable to bring […]

Mitt Romney’s Mexican Family: Caution On Immigration

Mary Mata

Lots of folks have been mentioning this Washington Post story about Mitt Romney’s Mexican relatives. In case you don’t remember, and as we previously reported, Romney’s ancestors fled to Mexico […]

Democrats Recruit Latino Support With Spanish Video

Mary Mata July 22, 2011

 Not really sure what to make of this, but the Democratic National Committee has created a Spanish language video in an effort to reach out to Latinos in Reno, Las Vegas, […]

NALEO Calls On Obama To Act On Priorities for U.S. Latinos

Mary Mata

[Editor’s note: The following is a press release from NALEO.] The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) issued the following statement today calling on President Obama to […]

Can Racist Laws Spur Latino Political Participation?

Mary Mata July 21, 2011

It’s an interesting question being posed in a story by Julián Aguilar in a story about Texas’ own version of Arizona’s SB 1070, which was SB 9 and ultimately died […]