Latino State Of The Union

[Editor’s Note: The following is an edited version of a blog from LatinoPoliticsBlog.com blogger Seneca. Re-posted with permission.] The “state of the union” of the Latino community appears to be […]

During the past few weeks many News Taco readers have asked for specific ways in which they can help the DREAM Act cause. This is a action alert, distributed through […]

Truth be told, Texas state Rep. Aaron Peña’s outing himself as a Republican is not the scandal we may think it is. It’s the natural succession of political tendencies that […]

Challenges continue to be heard against Arizona’s controversial SB1070, and they continue to be shot down. But that’s not entirely a bad thing. The latest battle concerned a suit filed […]

Texas State Representative Aaron Peña just switched parties this week, from Democrat to Republican, conveniently a month after his mostly-Democratic constituency re-elected him after eight years of service to them. […]

Visits by U.S. travelers are growing steadily thanks in part to President Barack Obama’s lifting of restrictions on Cubanos visiting their native land, but also probably because Raúl Castro’s government […]

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 […]

No apology yet. But the latest reports are that Fox News Latino has taken down their link to a story that referred to the baby of actors Penelope Cruz and […]

Census data released today apparently shows that Latinos continue to live in segregated communities — that is with mostly other Latino neighbors — whereas whites and blacks have become more […]

“I’m going to beat the f***ing Mexican piss out of you, homey. You feel me?” Those were the words of Seattle Detective Shandy Cobane to a Latino man detained by […]