Latinos And Bill Daley Obama’s New Chief Of Staff

Latinos And Bill Daley Obama’s New Chief Of Staff

Mary Mata January 6, 2011

President Barack Obama has appointed Bill Daley — former Clinton Commerce secretary and current JP Morgan’s Midwest Chair and head of corporate responsibility in Chicago — to be his new Chief […]

Dia de Reyes, Feast of the Aha!

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Televisa, Mexico’s behemoth broadcasting company, had live helicopter-view images of the Tepito marked in Mexico City last night, at midnight. Hundreds of thousands of people packed block after block of […]

First Order of Business for New Congress: Exclude Puerto Rico

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The new Republican leaning congress got straight to work after taking their oath of office and listening to a reading of the US Constitution. Their first order of business was […]

US Gun Shops are Fueling Mexico’s Drug War

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According to Mexico’s attorney general there were 12,456 murders in his country from January to November of 2010. That’s more than 1000 a month, mostly done with firearms, mostly dealing […]

Lucha Libre Wrestlers Pass On Narco Cultura

Mary Mata January 5, 2011

In a feel good story by The Washington Post, we learn that lucha libre wrestlers in the Washington, D.C. area have purposefully left out narcocultura from their repertoire. The story […]

14 States To Tackle Birthright Citizenship

Mary Mata

Seriously? According to a recent report, 14 states have legislators who are set to file bills about birthright citizenship this year. That is, they are going to propose laws that would […]

Note to Bill Richardson: You Don’t Speak for Us

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Don’t let the door hit you on your way out! Geez. Not a day after former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson left office, a group of disgruntled Latinos have told […]

Republicans Take Republicans to Task for use of Anchor baby

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You can’t expect people to stop a behavior if you don’t take them to task for doing it. I’ve been writing in general terms about the use of the words […]

The Importance Of Latino Group Cohesion

Mary Mata January 4, 2011

As we start off 2011, I find it an important opportunity to make a comment about something we all tend to take for granted:  Why do we lump together ethnicities […]

Ethnic Studies Illegal In Arizona, Profiling Still Ok

Mary Mata

Ethnic studies — like African-American studies or Chicano studies — are now officially illegal in Arizona. This goes back to a bill that passed around the same time as SB […]