Looking To Buy Land, Two Unarmed Latinos Shot Near Border

Looking To Buy Land, Two Unarmed Latinos Shot Near Border

Mary Mata July 18, 2011

By Melissa del Bosque It was an early morning in mid-May. Norberto Velez, 55, and his son Norangel, 32, were driving through ranchland in far West Texas. They were looking […]

Can A Grieving Poet’s Movement For Peace Save Mexico?

Mary Mata July 11, 2011

By Melissa del Bosque On a broiling mid-June afternoon in Juarez, Javier Sicilia stepped on to a makeshift stage in a downtown park to address at least 2,000 of his […]

Book Review: “Down & Delirious In Mexico City”

Mary Mata July 7, 2011

And today, an interesting discussion about Daniel Hernández’s “Down & Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty First Century,” which in Adolfo Guzmán-Lopez’s estimation is a “pull-you-by-the-hand-otherwise-you’ll-get-swallowed-by-the-mosh-pit account […]

Washington D.C. Hate Crimes Increasingly Against Latinos, Whites

Mary Mata

News from our nation’s capital: hate crimes are being redirected away from gays and lesbians and towards Latinos and whites. Interesting, right? Turns out the gentrification of Washington, D.C. has […]

Man Convicted Of Racially Charged Murder Of Latino Neighbor

Mary Mata July 6, 2011

Gary Thomas Kelley, 51, of Phoenix, Arizona was sentenced to 20 years in prison after shooting his neighbor Juan Varela in the neck after telling him to “go back to […]

Caylee & Brisenia: Why The Difference In Coverage?

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When was the last time you heard Nancy Grace rail obnoxiously from the television screen about the murder of Brisenia Flores? You know who I’m talking about – it’s hard […]

Casey Anthony Found Not Guilty

Mary Mata July 5, 2011

Almost three years after the death of then-two year-old Caylee Anthony, her mother Casey was found not guilty in the death of her daughter. This was one of the most […]

In Monterrey We’re All Becoming Just Numbers — Or Targets

Mary Mata July 1, 2011

By Wuicho Vargas For the grill to burn just right, the night has to unfold — along with the beer, the friends, the conversations, everything, it all has to be […]

Puerto Rico’s Hostile Environment To LGBT Leads To Murder

Mary Mata June 29, 2011

In 18 months, 18 people from Puerto Rico’s LGBT community have been killed, according to a report from Autostraddle. The murders are the result of homophobia, a tolerant political environment, […]

John McCain Uses One Fire To Start Another

Mary Mata June 24, 2011

By Randy Parraz Most recently Arizona has been in the national headlines because of the outbreak of wildfires. At no time in our history have we ever experienced fires of […]