Hector Luis Alamo

Latin America, send us your poor, your violent, your drug-addicted.

When a military coup removed the president of Honduras in 2009, Sec. Clinton was forced to choose between democracy and business interests. You already know which she chose.

Ninety-nine years after Puerto Ricans were granted second-class citizenship, why should anyone be surprised that many of the rights of U.S. citizenship don’t apply in Puerto Rico?

Hillary Clinton can bash Bernie Sanders for voting against the 2007 comprehensive immigration reform bill if she wants, but I would’ve voted against it, too.

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has just released its first official TV spot, in which everything is not nearly what it appears to be.

The real, unofficial story of what happened to 43 students who went missing in Iguala, Mexico on September 26, 2014

CHICAGO—It’s May 2015, which means the start of the 2016 presidential campaign season is only a blink away. Already hopefuls are throwing their hats into the ring. So far only one person has mounted a challenge to Hillary Clinton, the presumed Democratic nominee—though why Bernie Sanders, a self-styled democratic socialist and the independent junior senator […]

Those who ignore history are doomed to look ridiculous. First, I’d like to give props to the Associated Press’ Matt Lee for showing how journalists can still serve the indispensable role of keeping a society, if not free, then at least accurate. When State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki told him something blatantly untrue during a […]

So, Conan went to Cuba. Seems fitting considering that, once upon a time, Conan was my generation’s Johnny Carson. And if you’ve seen any of the surveys published in the past five years, you’ll know Millennials are the most open to opening relations between the United States and its closest, non-bordering neighbor. After all, we’re too […]

I read the news today, oh boy… Seems Sean Penn went all Sean Penn at the Oscars last night. Before announcing Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman as this year’s Best Picture, Penn asked, “Who gave this sonofabitch his green card?” Iñárritu had already won for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. The joke wasn’t particularly […]

On Monday President Barack Obama promised to bypass Congress and use all of his legal powers as president to fix the nation’s immigration system. With tens of thousands of unaccompanied kids from drug war-torn Central America showing up at the U.S. border, creating what President Obama has labeled an “urgent humanitarian situation” —plus Speaker John Boehner […]