Bill Richardson on the presidential election: “I’ve never seen anything like it”

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Bill Richardson laughs when you ask him what he thinks about the presidential election. It’s not a loud boisterous laugh, it’s more a surprised chuckle. And there’s more […]

*Exactly! We’ve been saying this all along at NewsTaco, the Latino daily and in our podcasts. There was one shot to represent all Latino interests and issues, and we end […]

*This Rubio-Cruz “who-is-more-Hispanic” feud is the latest iteration of an old discussion. Falcon writes that the argument over the terms and over Latino-ness is “subject to a wide range of cultural […]

*I remember, when I was a young reporter, interviewing the great Willie Velasquez and he telling me that Latinos would be well served by having equal representation in both political […]

*The fact that Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have gone farther than any other Latino presidential candidate gives them the title of trailblazer. It’s the “Latino” identity part that complicates […]

*It’s interesting how media thought framers coin new terms to fit new political realities. It used to be that angry white voters were a fringe, now they’re a resentful group. […]

*That’s saying a lot. Especially given that tonight will be the last GOP presidential debate of the year, and that Cruz is surging in the polls, and that Trump has […]

*This fact-check digs into Ted Cruz’s debate remarks about his family’s personal immigrant saga, and his claim that immigrants drive wages down. The result? He’s wrong on wages and his family […]

*The use of Spanish in American politics is not new. Latinos, especially Mexican-Americans, have known this for generations. In fact, I’d say that part of the problem with low Latino […]

*Aaron Sanchez explores the idea that the Republican “Latino problem” stems from the fact that most Republican Latinos aren’t like the rest of Latinos in the U.S. (I emphasize the […]