NewsTaco Week in Review: Machos, Telenovelas, Militares y la Política

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 […]

Perhaps you read my earlier post about the temporarily positive coverage of Latinos in the U.S. media as hope and the tenacity of the human spirit were on the tips […]

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 […]

In France, what we call “French toast” is called pain perdu. That means “lost bread,” perhaps because it is a way to salvage stale bread by soaking it in a […]

I knew it was going to happen. After all, it has happened every decade since 1970, that I know. Last month, the Economist discovered Latino voters. This month, it was […]

I know I sure don’t need anyone to tell me that immigrants are among the heartiest, hardest working and most persevering folks you’ll ever meet, but CNN found one lady […]

So I’m a twentysomething, educated Latina, and obviously my Mexican relatives are all too eager for me to get married and start pumping out babies.  It’s just their way.  Imagine […]

Like Latinos were turning out in humongous numbers and elevated percentages before, right? We’ll see. The opposite might be true, so says The New York Times.

In case you’ve been sleeping under a rock this week, I’d like to direct your attention to something that has NEVER before happened with conservatives on high horses:  the fall. […]

We all know about La Llorona, variously told by abuelita, about La Malinche or during Halloween/Día de los Muertos.  Well, now Universal Studios Hollywood has introduced her as part of […]