Happy Friday From Chente Barrera!

[Editor’s Note: This is a re-post from Stace’s blog, Dos Centavos, published here with permission.] By Stace Medellín I’ve been following this guy since he was hidden behind Jay Perez and […]

Seven children aged 7 months to 11 were killed in a barn fire in a Mennonite community in Pennsylvania. A former NPR executive was taped by the same guy who […]

Charlie Sheen was fired from his job at “Two and a Half Men” after his antics over the past few weeks, which included rants, seeming drug use and anti-Semitic comments. Libyan […]

Okay everybody, if you’re like me, you love going to the movies. Here are a few films that look really intense, but look like super good movies. One is about […]

Los Master Plus is composed of two Guadalajara, México natives, El Comanche and Larry Mon. The duos’ stage personalities are hilarious — Mexican hipsters — and they have the ironic […]

Twenty year-old Marisol Marisol Valles García took over as police chief in a small town of Praxedis G. Guerrero on the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez after no one else would last […]

192,000 jobs were added to the economy in February, which is the biggest jump since mid-2010. Republican lawmakers are trying to pass off their cuts to the budget as job […]

This one’s a doozy! Do you remember the immigrant labor-loving Texas Republican State Rep. Debbie Riddle, who proposed a bill making it illegal to hire people without papers — unless […]

[Editor’s Note: This story by Roberto Ontiveros was originally published in the Texas Observer.] MY LATE GRANDMOTHER MARTHA made mole—which I knew as a dark peanut and chocolate sauce over chicken—for […]

About two years ago, I went to Mexico in order to put 2008 in my rearview mirror. I have family in the municipality of La Rivera, Jalisco, they see me […]