Guapura 101: Latinos Should Donate Blood

Guapura 101: Latinos Should Donate Blood

Mary Mata February 7, 2011

Recently I voluntarily agreed to have a needle plunged into my arm so that I could donate blood to a stranger. Ew, right? You’re right, but, I say it’s important […]

Why Latinos Really Need Health Care Reform

Mary Mata

Latinos are a population that can really, really benefit from health care reform because, as a group, they have among lowest rates of health insurance coverage of any ethnic group. […]

Spanish Is The Most Important Foreign Language In U.S.

Mary Mata

I can’t believe I missed this one, but back in December The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof wrote a column in which he said that learning Chinese is great, but […]

Latinos Lash Out At Lady Gaga’s Lyrics

Mary Mata

Here’s how it breaks down. Lady Gaga recently released the lyrics of her upcoming single “Born This Way” and some of the lyrics were found to be offensive to Latinos […]

Mexico Drug War Aid Delays Investigated

Mary Mata

Somewhere between President George W. Bush announcing in 2007 that the U.S. would give México $1.4 billion dollars to fight drug cartels (Mérida Initiative) and now, just $362 million in […]

Texas Budget Cuts Get a Human Face

Mary Mata

by Dave Mann from The Texas Observer They had three minutes to share their life stories. Just 180 seconds to describe all that had befallen them. The details were different. […]

Latinos: From Field Hands to Farm Owners

NewsTaco

It only makes sense, if you give a traditionally agricultural community in its origins an opportunity to expand its entrepreneurial energy. And it flies in the face of all the […]

NFL Is Serious About Reaching Out to Latinos

NewsTaco

It’s an odd thing to say, that the NFL has targeted Latinos as a growth market, because most of the Latinos I know (and I reiterate, most, not all) are […]

Mexican Journalist Asylum Request Postponed

NewsTaco

The case of the Mexican journalist who asked for asylum in the US two and a half years ago has been kicked down the road. Emilio Gutierrez Soto says that […]

Racial Profiling Feared in New Mexico

NewsTaco

One of the first things that Susana Martinez, the newly elected and installed Republican Governor of New Mexico, did was undo what her predecessor had done. Five years ago then […]