Celebration Marks 611th Birthday of Aztec Chief

By Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express News The sound of drums echoed throughout San Pedro Park Sunday afternoon, signaling the 611th birthday celebration of a man revered as an […]

“Cinco de Mayo, La Batalla” to Premiere May 3 By Latino Rebels It’s a start. While most of the America will be donning silly sombreros, drinking cheap tequila and thinking […]

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile Chile’s Environmental Evaluation Service (SEA) has sent the Superintendence of the Environment—the country’s environmental regulatory body—several claims regarding Hidroaysén’s alleged breach of […]

By Saul Elbein, Texas Observer Every morning, while her girls are still in bed, Irma Rosales makes tortillas for breakfast. She prepares the masa, pats it into little cakes, places them […]

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile The Italian energy company Enel—which has a 51% stake in the beleaguered HidroAysén mega dam project through its subsidiary Endesa—will only […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco The violence in Mexico, seen from the U.S. perspective, has an “over there, to ‘those people’” quality that’s hard to break down. This short video, produced […]

By Mark Stevenson, Associated Press/Seattle Times MEXICO CITY — Salt and lime with tequila. Salt with your iced “michelada” beer. Salt and chili on fruit and even candy. Mexicans love salt, […]

By Melissa del Bosque, Texas Observer This story was produced in partnership with the Guardian, where a version of this story also appears. In 2010, the birth year of the popular and […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco First week of April, check. Friday almost done, check. Jazz de Mexico, only on NewsTaco, let’s go! It’s the best Latino jazz musicians and composers, brought […]

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile Thousands of dead shrimp and small fish have emerged from a duct of the Bocamina II plant, an Endesa-owned thermoelectric power generation […]