Latin@ high school students are rising to protest hateful SB 4 law in Texas.

By Viri Sanchez and Karla Quinones  (2.5 minute read) Four months ago, on February 16, thousands of high school students across Texas joined in a collective effort to stand up […]

*This isn’t to minimize the death toll. There were 129 people killed, more than 350 wounded in Paris. An attack of such brutality should bring us closer to our common humanity, […]

By Dr. Henry Flores, NewsTaco You are probably wondering what the murders of the political cartoonists in Paris by terrorists have to do with Latinos in the United States.  Well, […]

By Hispanically Speaking News Miguel Alejandro Santana Vidriales, 21, of Ontario and born in Mexico is one of four young men from Southern California that have been apprehended for planning a terrorist […]

By John Lindsay-Poland, otherwords.org In the grotesque wars that pit Mexican armed forces and drug cartels against each other and civilians who get in their way, the Zetas cartel plays a […]

Today as we remember those we lost on 9/11, here are a few remembrances from our News Taco community: 9/11 Is No Excuse for Bashing Muslims The September 11 Lessons […]

I moved to New York City the summer after 9/11, though I was actually born in Brooklyn, but raised in Miami, so it was a return of sorts. The city […]

By J. Richard Cohen, otherwords.org On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, we’ll be transfixed once more by images of the planes ramming into the World Trade Center and people, caught in […]

By Justin Garratt Burke Manuel Vasquez, Assoc. Prof. at the University of Florida, recently delivered the keynote address to the “Imagining Latin America in Australia” Workshop at University of Western Sydney. […]

The man who wrote a gigantic biography on the Argentinian icon and noted Communist Ernesto “Ché” Guevara wrote an essay recently in The New Yorker about the similarities between what […]