The Emergence Of The Political Eva Longoria

The Emergence Of The Political Eva Longoria

Mary Mata April 23, 2012

By Tony Castro, Voxxi When Eva Longoria was unveiled as one of co-chairs of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, the reaction among the national press corps was the usual rolling of the […]

Friday’s Cartoon: Crime Watch

Mary Mata April 20, 2012

By Khalil Bendib, Other Words

Morning NewsTaco

Mary Mata

Friday, April 20, 2012 Obama camp launches Latino push, hits Romney: With both sides eying one of the fastest-growing blocs in the American electorate, President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign on Wednesday […]

Nebraska Upholds Prenatal Care For Undocumented

NewsTaco April 19, 2012

By Victor Landa It turns out pro-immigrant trumps anti-abortion in Nebraska after all. This has been a topsy-turvy issue for a few weeks so I’ll give you the need-to-know version […]

Interview With “Bully” Director Lee Hirsch

Mary Mata April 18, 2012

By Janice Fuentes, Our Tiempo While I enjoy a pleasant conversation with Kelby, one of the subjects in the much anticipated documentary “Bully”, the movie’s director, a very tired Lee […]

My mother, The Most Unfortunate Pilgrim

Mary Mata

Once upon a time, I believed what my first grade teacher told me.  I thought I was the descendant of a pilgrim. I took her word for it. I thought […]

U.S. to House Children from Central America at AF Base

Mary Mata April 17, 2012

By Melissa Del Bosque, Texas Observer When there is unrest in Latin America, the U.S.-Mexico border is often the first place to feel it as refugees flee violence or economic insecurity. […]

Quinceañera Dress To Be Part Of Smithsonian Exhibit

NewsTaco April 13, 2012

Who would have thought it? This is the lead paragraph of an Associated Press story that ran in the Chicago Sun-Times: She was just a regular kid. Now, the dress […]

America’s War With Aliens And Their Families

Mary Mata April 12, 2012

By  Hector Luis Alamo, Being Latino In the time it takes you to read this article, alien parents will be torn away from their children by armed men (possibly in […]

Texas Sen. Carlos Truan, A Living Legacy

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If you venture too far from South Texas or the mired halls of Texas’ state capitol politics you may not not run into too many people who’ve heard of Carlos Truan. But […]