Latino Males are Healthy, but Die Young

We’ll call it the paradox within the paradox. Scientists and health professionals have been talking and scratching their heads about the Latino paradox for years: the fact that, despite unfavorable […]

The El Paso Times reported recently that $18 to $39 billion dollars worth of drug money goes from the U.S. south to Mexico every year, according to a report from […]

Qué tristeza. A recent study from the Office of National Drug Control Policy found that drug use among Latino teen boys is rising. Specifically, drug use by this group rose […]

Just when you think the drug-related violence in Mexico can’t get any worse — it does. This just in, police in Mexico are searching for a 12 year-old hitman nicknamed […]

A curious study found that there are specific interventions for smoking cessation, a.k.a. quitting smoking, that are more helpful for Latinos. From the article: “Latinos tend to smoke at rates […]

Molly Molloy and El Diario de Juárez report that there were 340 killings in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua in October of this year. A This is a new record, beating out 338 […]

Time to round up this week’s NewsTaco news…. It was the most racist of times when we saw how low some Republican lawmakers were willing to go with their scary […]

A new report jointly put together by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez Human Rights Center (Center Prodh) discovered that human rights violations […]

Courtesy of Nevada Republican (read:  Teabagger) senatorial candidate Sharron Angle. I like the reenactment by the scary brown people, I feel it gives a strong realism to the fear.  Don’t […]

As a student of the social sciences I am currently working on several research projects, one of which involves Latino gay men. Unhappily for me, trying to find resources about this demographic that doesn’t revolve around HIV/AIDS, drugs and risky sexual behaviors has proven to be just short of impossible.