Spanglish Is As Proper A Language As English Or Spanish

By Wuicho Vargas There are sentiments that swirl around my existence, as the Spanish and English languages ferociously debate about whose importance I should favor. Grammar, rules, chains, accents, punctuation […]

On our weekly News Taco list segment this week we thought it’d be interesting to look at some of the top slurs, read: racial insults, against Latinos. Of course over […]

[Editor’s Note: Michael Seifert is an activist living in Brownsville, Texas. This post was re-published from his blog, Musings from Alongside a Border with permission.] Someone must have had a […]

By Melissa del Bosque The drug war plaguing the U.S.-Mexico border since 2006 has all but eclipsed any news about ongoing squabbles over the U.S.-Mexico water treaty. But with an […]

There’s already controversy surrounding the 2010 Census, even though it hasn’t even been fully released. Along the U.S.-Mexico border, where Latinos are concentrated, poor neighborhoods known as colonias were severely […]

Gabriel Treviño was born in Brownsville, Texas and raised there and across the river, in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. He’s a painter in his free time, an engineer during the day. I […]

For the people of Eagle Pass, Texas, a small border town of about 27,000, trying to preserve their health and way of life has proven to be difficult. Especially because […]

¡Hijole! This is the stuff telenovelas are made of! San Diego-area Border Patrol agent Marcos Gerardo Manzano Jr., 26, allowed his father — Marcos Gerardo Manzano Sr., 46, who had […]

All kinds of people in the U.S. are illegally smuggling guns into Mexico — it’s illegal for civilians to have firearms in Mexico — essentially arming the cartels that are […]

As always, there’s a lot happening with Mexico, the border and the U.S. response.  Here’s a quick roundup: The U.S. and Mexico’s relationship is deepening, including sharing information, soldier training, […]