The Battle Against SB1070 is Just Beginning

The Battle Against SB1070 is Just Beginning

NewsTaco December 17, 2010

Challenges continue to be heard against Arizona’s controversial SB1070, and they continue to be shot down. But that’s not entirely a bad thing. The latest battle concerned a suit filed […]

Missing Carlos Guerra Part 4

Mary Mata December 15, 2010

[Editor’s Note: Roberto R. Calderón is my father and a professor of history at the University of North Texas. He was a fan and a friend of Carlos Guerra and […]

Heidi Jones And Yet Another Latino Rapist

Mary Mata

Weather forecaster Heidi Jones, 37, was suspended from her job Wednesday after she filed a fake police report claiming she was raped and stalked by a “Hispanic man.” She worked […]

Latinos Change Texas’ Future, May Suffer In Present

Mary Mata

By Stace Medellín Recently I attended the Harris County (Houston) Democratic Party Brown Bag discussion, including State Reps. Armando Walle, Scott Hochberg, and Carol Alvarado. They shared an outlook of […]

Obama Plans New Staff, No Latinos Included

Mary Mata

President Barack Obama is set to revamp his staff next year and — in a surprise NewsTaco has been anticipating — no Latinos are slated to be on board, at […]

No Charges For Racist Seattle Cop Who Beat Latino

Mary Mata

“I’m going to beat the f***ing Mexican piss out of you, homey. You feel me?” Those were the words of Seattle Detective Shandy Cobane to a Latino man detained by […]

Missing Carlos Guerra Part 3

Mary Mata December 14, 2010

[Editor’s Note: Juan Perales is an attorney and childhood friend of Carlos Guerra’s.] When I was a junior in high school some of my classmates were talking excitedly about a […]

Book Review: Quixote’s Soldiers And The Chicano Movement

Mary Mata

By Vincent Bosquez Call it cosmic faith, or a poignant buena suerte, but a few hours before I learned of San Antonio icon Carlos Guerra’s death last week, I had […]

Latino Republicans Call Tancredo Out as a Hypocrite

NewsTaco

I don’t know if there’s a rock big enough for Tom Tacnredo to hide under, but he needs to find it fast, if only to take a breath. The folks […]

Missing Carlos Guerra Part 2

Mary Mata December 13, 2010

So many of you were excited to share your memories of Carlos Guerra that we had to do a second version of memories of him, to follow up the first […]