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Before I even learned to speak Spanish I knew every word to every song on Julieta Venegas’ breakthrough album Sí. It didn’t matter that I couldn’t understand the lyrics at […]

The basic story goes like this. One of the members of the hackers group Anonymous became mixed up with the Mexico’s scary drug cartel, the Zetas (although this has come […]

In my own life, growing up between Los Angeles and South Texas, celebrating Día de los Muertos was always almost just a shadow on the wall that was pretty easy […]

By Melissa Del Bosque “Somebody’s taken Carlos.” Ana couldn’t quite believe what her cousin had just told her over the phone. How could it be true? Ana had been preparing […]

By Melissa Pitts It’s that time of year again (already? I know.) Halloween and, in Latin America, Day of the Dead (aka Dia de los Muertos)! While Dia de los […]

After the piece I wrote about my cruel grandmother, there was a maelstrom on my mother’s side of the family. In short, I have been shunned. Let’s just say that […]

Earlier this month 22 year-old Paola Longoria of San Luis Potosi, Mexico won the US Open Racquetball Championship, beating the #1 female player in the world Rhonda Rajsich, and earning her […]

Obviously, the big international story this week was the death of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.  But while the Middle East dominated major headlines, we’re bringing you a breakdown of events in […]

I went to school in Mexico, from the third grade through to the ninth, and I don’t remember reciting the pledge of allegiance to the Mexican flag, ever. So I was curious about a controversy that broke out when a […]

By Elly Pepper The public lands surrounding our country’s borders contain wilderness areas, national wildlife refuges, national forests, national monuments, state parks, and hundreds of miles within the national park […]