NewsTaco Week in Review: Machos, Telenovelas, Militares y la Política

Time to round up this week’s NewsTaco news…. It was the most racist of times when we saw how low some Republican lawmakers were willing to go with their scary […]

A new report jointly put together by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez Human Rights Center (Center Prodh) discovered that human rights violations […]

I knew it was going to happen. After all, it has happened every decade since 1970, that I know. Last month, the Economist discovered Latino voters. This month, it was […]

I know I sure don’t need anyone to tell me that immigrants are among the heartiest, hardest working and most persevering folks you’ll ever meet, but CNN found one lady […]

Like Latinos were turning out in humongous numbers and elevated percentages before, right? We’ll see. The opposite might be true, so says The New York Times.

We all know about La Llorona, variously told by abuelita, about La Malinche or during Halloween/Día de los Muertos.  Well, now Universal Studios Hollywood has introduced her as part of […]

Courtesy of Nevada Republican (read:  Teabagger) senatorial candidate Sharron Angle. I like the reenactment by the scary brown people, I feel it gives a strong realism to the fear.  Don’t […]

A study came out recently showing that less Americans are getting married, and more are just shacking up.  I’m sure this is driving mothers and grandmothers everywhere crazy.  The Population […]

The Brookings Institution put together an interesting list of 10 economic facts about immigration, something I think we can all appreciate given the heavy current anti-immigrant climate. Today’s Immigrants Hail […]

The GOP’s sometime favorite minority Republican came out in favor of not only immigration reform and the DREAM Act this week, but also managed to perjure himself by saying he […]