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

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 […]

A while back, “Sex and the City” star Krisin Davis said that she was considered “hippy” but had found a way to accept her body.  At the time, I laughed […]

A new report jointly put together by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez Human Rights Center (Center Prodh) discovered that human rights violations […]

The GOP has stooped to a new level of racial profiling in California, where gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman and senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina tried to court Latino voters by drinking […]

So I’m a twentysomething, educated Latina, and obviously my Mexican relatives are all too eager for me to get married and start pumping out babies.  It’s just their way.  Imagine […]

We all know about La Llorona, variously told by abuelita, about La Malinche or during Halloween/Día de los Muertos.  Well, now Universal Studios Hollywood has introduced her as part of […]

A study came out recently showing that less Americans are getting married, and more are just shacking up.  I’m sure this is driving mothers and grandmothers everywhere crazy.  The Population […]

During a recent trip to Spain First Lady Michelle Obama told the priest in charge at the Casa Don Bosco in Ronda that President Barack Obama, “always carries a picture […]

Jezebel wrote a really interesting piece this week breaking down New York’s fashion week by “color,” and ultimately finding that no one wants Latina models.  As they wrote: “3,410 of […]

As far back as I can remember, I’ve lived a parallel life:  considered not skinny enough by popular American wisdom and somehow simultaneously considered too skinny by my abuelitas. Although […]