Party Switching, Racism And South Texas Memories
Party Switching, Racism And South Texas Memories
[Editor’s Note: Alfredo Santos is a Texas native and the editor of La Voz newspapers in Austin, Texas and shares his memories of South Texas party switching here.] Aaron Peña’s […]
Peña’s Political Leap is Really About Democrats
Truth be told, Texas state Rep. Aaron Peña’s outing himself as a Republican is not the scandal we may think it is. It’s the natural succession of political tendencies that […]
Missing Carlos Guerra Part 4
[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 […]
Missing Carlos Guerra Part 3
[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 […]
The Science Behind Obama’s Deportation Record
[Editor’s Note: I wrote last week about the way the Obama Administration had immigration enforcement agencies twist the rules so they could reach their “record” deportations goal. This week we […]
Book Review: Quixote’s Soldiers And The Chicano Movement
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 […]
Missing Carlos Guerra Part 2
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 […]
BREAKING: San Antonio DREAMers Will Not Be Charged
As we reported at the end of last month, DREAM Act protesters in Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s San Antonio, Texas offices were arrested after a sit-in there. Carlos Guerra […]