Dark Knight Colorado Shooting Cartoon By Lalo Alcaraz

Dark Knight Colorado Shooting Cartoon By Lalo Alcaraz

Mary Mata July 24, 2012

By Lalo Alcaraz, Pocho Ñews Service Everyone is horrified about another mass shooting, this one in a movie theater in Aurora, CO at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises. Gun violence in the […]

Chase Confirms Fund To Aid Family of Murdered Immigrant

Mary Mata July 23, 2012

By Rebeldes, Latino Rebels Murder Was Recorded on Facebook It is one of the most horrific murders of the social media age. Three Chicago teens decided to play a game called “”Pick […]

DRUGS: Narco Mennonites Arrested Again

Mary Mata

By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog Years ago, I had a run-in with drug-smuggling Mennonites in the area around Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua in Mexico, and wrote about it, and the decay […]

Local Perspective: Aurora Shootings Bring Community Together

Mary Mata July 20, 2012

By Amanda Devine, Voxxi Colorado has been hit with an act of violence that will be remembered for years to come. The City of Aurora, affectionately called “Saudi Aurora” by […]

I Was A Deaf Thug And Now I Play One On TV (video)

Mary Mata

By Carlos Aguilar, Current TV From deaf gangster to Hollywood gang-star, actor Gabriel Martinez shares his unique life growing up hard-of-hearing in the ‘hood. Once a lost and mischievous youth […]

U.S. Senate Report Signals Shift In Drug War Strategy

NewsTaco July 18, 2012

By Melissa del Bosque, Texas Observer In April, the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations sent a team of staffers to Mexico City and Monterrey to assess the state of […]

Low Latino Voter Turnout Would Send ‘Terrible Message,’

Mary Mata July 9, 2012

By Griselda Nerávez, Voxxi After a year of being labeled as a voting bloc that will play a significant role in this year’s presidential elections, there is mounting pressure on Latinos […]

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NewsTaco July 6, 2012

Friday July 6, 2012 27 – Median Age for Hispanics is Lower Than Median Age for Total U.S. Population (Pew Research Center):  Hispanics in the United States on the whole […]

Finding Oscar: A Father And Son Reunite Three Decades Later

Mary Mata July 5, 2012

By Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica Read our original story, “Finding Oscar: Massacre, Memory and Justice in Guatemala.” It was a day of firsts for Tranquilino Castañeda, a 70-year-old farmer from a jungle village […]

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Thursday July 5, 2012 U.S. immigration agent injured in Mexico border shooting (Reuters):  A U.S. immigration agent was shot and wounded during a surveillance operation on a desolate stretch of […]