Bien Hecho: Rigoberta Menchú To Run For Guatemalan President
Bien Hecho: Rigoberta Menchú To Run For Guatemalan President
Nobel Peace Prize winner and longtime Guatemalan activist Rigoberta Menchú has announced that she plans to seek her country’s presidency this month. This would be the second time she seeks […]
Perry’s Hiding Record Behind Angry Rhetoric
By Maria Cardona Texas Gov. Rick Perry wants to be the next president of the United States. He announced his candidacy on Saturday and has since campaigned like an angry […]
GOP Hopes To Avoid Immigration Issue To Win Florida
I’m not making this up, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a conference call today that the Republicans would try to skirt debate on immigration during the election, trying […]
GOP Candidates Ignore Latinos, Then Lie To Them
If you ask me, and no one did I’m just saying, this is a pretty lame way to treat a huge voting bloc. Let me break it down. The reason […]
Mitt Romney’s Mexican Family: Caution On Immigration
Lots of folks have been mentioning this Washington Post story about Mitt Romney’s Mexican relatives. In case you don’t remember, and as we previously reported, Romney’s ancestors fled to Mexico […]
Do Spanish Language Ads Work On Latino Voters?
By Beatriz Terrazas In both of his presidential runs, George W. Bush used more Spanish-language TV ads than any Republican presidential candidate before him. But it wasn’t just the language […]
Romney’s LA Visit & The Lameness Of Latino Voter Pitches
Mitt Romney continued his pitch to Latinos in Los Angeles yesterday and the mayor of that city, Antonio Villaraigosa held a tele-press conference to seize the moment and call foul. […]
GOP Seeks To Deport More People
Republicans recently introduced a measure in Congress that would remove the President’s discretion to prioritize deportation cases, in essence ending the practice of prioritizing dangerous criminals and stopping delayed deportations. […]
Perry Bombs At National Latino Conference
By Melissa Del Bosque Thursday in San Antonio, the national press got one of their first honest-to-God looks at Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential potential. They got to evaluate his candidate […]
Cornel West, Latinos Are Also Disappointed In Obama
What do President Obama, Professor Cornel West, Latinos and Immigration Reform have to do with each other? A lot! A great deal, actually! Last week Professor Cornel West, an eminent […]