Spanglish Is As Proper A Language As English Or Spanish
Spanglish Is As Proper A Language As English Or Spanish
By Wuicho Vargas There are sentiments that swirl around my existence, as the Spanish and English languages ferociously debate about whose importance I should favor. Grammar, rules, chains, accents, punctuation […]
Dispatch from the DF: Easter In Drug-War Torn Acapulco
We escaped Mexico City this week and spent Semana Santa in Acapulco. My husband, our toddler daughter, his two teen daughters and me. I told a friend of mine back […]
Latinos In The U.S. Search For Loved Ones In Mexican Mass Grave
We wrote previously about the mass grave discovered recently in Northern Mexico, but what one reporter from the Fronteras: Changing America Desk News found was that people in the United States who […]
How Can A Bird Pooping On Me Possibly Be Good Luck?
You know it’s happened to you. Maybe it was your tía or your abuelita or your friend or your cousin or even just some stranger that happens to point out […]
Boehner Turns His Back On Capitol 5 De Mayo
At best he punted, at worst he miscalculated. Every year since 2003, when Republican Dennis Hastert was Speaker of the House, there’s been a Cinco de Mayo celebration on the […]
Dispatch From the DF: What Mexicans think of the US
by Alejandra Garza de Gutierrez I hope most people who have a sibling will understand me on this one. There is a new study released by the Pew Research Center’s […]
Hundreds Of Bodies Found In Mexican Mass Grave
[Editor’s Note: The following story published on April 13, last week, details the discovery of a mass grave in Tamaulipas, México. Since, about 145 bodies have been found and about […]
The Saga Of Over-The-Top Mexican Boots
An interesting and short documentary tries to help us understand the growing fashion of these ridiculously long boots we first told you about in November. The short video takes us […]
Wachovia Complicit In Laundering Mexican Drug Money
The Guardian in the United Kingdom wrote an extensive piece uncovering that Wachovia Bank, now a part of Wells Fargo, helped drug cartels in Mexico launder beaucoup bucks in order […]
Mexican Immigrants At High Risk For Depression
CNN published an interesting report yesterday noting that Mexican immigrants run particular risk of depression when they first emigrate to the U.S. CNN reports: Researchers at the University of California-Davis […]
