JLo to Produce TV Show About Latina Nannies

JLo to Produce TV Show About Latina Nannies

Mary Mata October 26, 2010

I’m not really sure how I feel about this one, guys.  On the one hand, I think it’s good that Jennifer Lopez is trying to get more Latinos on TV […]

Latino Muslims in the U.S. Are For Reals

Mary Mata

Hey everyone, I just thought with recent anti-Islam sentiment and the silliness that was Juan Williams last week, it would be a good time to bring us back down to […]

Tantos Tacos: Hate, Escándalo, Food, Tech, Mexico and Hate

Mary Mata October 23, 2010

This week on NewsTaco we talked about food, hate, politics, voting, tech and a little more hate.  It was a long week! We started off the week talking about hate, […]

New Book: Latino Migration in North Carolina

Mary Mata October 22, 2010

Interesting new book coming out of the University of North Carolina Press titled The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina.  Written by Hanna Gill, the book explores Latino migration to […]

Hablando Bien: The Dynamics of Spanglish

Mary Mata

Recently I was having a conversation with a gentleman from the Deep South in San Antonio, Texas and he informed me that he’s been told, “Hispanics are too lazy to […]

Arroz, Es Arroz, Es Arroz

Mary Mata

Rice is one of the few things in a kitchen you really need to measure because the ratio of rice to liquid will determine if it’s arroz or sopa de […]

More than 20% U.S. Residents 1st, 2nd Generation

Mary Mata October 20, 2010

The U.S. Census Bureau reported that 37 million people in the United States are immigrants in 2009, that’s 12%.  Perhaps more interesting, 33 million people, 11%, were born in the […]

50% Latin American Businesses Go Social (Networks)

Mary Mata October 19, 2010

Just about half of businesses in Latin America use social media networks as part of their marketing strategies, according to the “2010 Latin America Social Media Study” by Burson-Marsteller. This […]

Bilingual Kids Less Likely To Get Alzheimer’s

Mary Mata October 18, 2010

Children who grow up speaking at least two languages have less of a chance of developing Alzheimer’s later on in life and are less likely to be easily confused, according […]

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

Mary Mata October 16, 2010

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 […]