Politics

Give it up to the folks at AJ+ for brilliantly summarizing in about 4 minutes what so many of us have been saying for years. Watch this video from November 24.

Yesterday a symbolic bill called the “Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act of 2014” authored by a rookie congressman from Florida named Yoho passed the House, 219-197. Yoho "exec amnesty" rebuke passes House. 3 Dem "yea" & 7 GOP "no", plus 3 GOP "present" — David M. Drucker (@DavidMDrucker) December 4, 2014 While the bill […]

Yesterday Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) issued the following statement regarding his stance on Mexico and human rights. According to #USTired2 organizers, Leahy’s office released this statement after individuals associated with the December 3 actions visited his office. Here is what Leahy’s Twitter profile shared yesterday afternoon: RT SenLeahy comments: http://t.co/75ovFjlu6W @VTWorkersCenter: at Leahy #BTV off. […]

At yesterday’s U.S. State Department daily press briefing, this is what Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf took questions about Mexico and Ayotzinapa. This is a clip of what she said. (Full video of the entire briefing is here.) This is the transcript of that explanation (the full transcript is here): QUESTION: Yeah. I just had a […]

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It’s one of those simple phrases ubiquitous in the Spanish language which contain a lot of meaning in so little verbiage: Ya me cansé. When spoken by a protester, it’s more sigh than words, more gesture than actual speech. The phrase became a slogan for protesters in Mexico as soon as the exasperated attorney general […]

The following video includes survivors of the events that took place in Iguala on September 26 and 27. They are asking for people in the United States to attend one of the multiple #USTired2 actions happening tomorrow, December 3.

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The death of beloved legend Roberto Gómez Bolaños (Chespirito) no doubt resonated with millions and millions of people, especially all of you who grew up with “El Chavo del Ocho” or “El Chapulín Colorado.” To many, it was losing a huge part of childhood. Not surprisingly throughout the weekend, the news of Chespirito’s death dominated […]

On December 3, #USTired2.

UPDATE: December 5, 2014: FRANCE 24 has now retracted this story. Yesterday, FRANCE 24 published a new report sending shock waves throughout Mexico. For more, visit here.

This week, right before the country’s Thanksgiving break, a group of 14 U.S. Senators wrote a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry about the missing Ayotzinapa students in Mexico. The November 25 letter was signed by the following senators: Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Sens. Richard Durbin (D-IL); Ben Cardin (D-MD); Tom […]

Sorry I missed last week. I was sick with the flu. It was fairly horrible and knocked me out for about eight days. The only person I know who didn’t get sick was the person who had a flu shot. Time down like that always makes one reflect at least during the lucid awake moments. […]

Cue Al Pacino again. I really was trying my best to not revisit the false U.S. Latino narrative that continues to spin from David Leonhardt, editor of The New York Times‘ The Upshot blog, and Nate Cohn, Upshot’s appointed U.S. Latino political expert—both clear examples of  “Latinidad without Latinos”, to quote Blanca Vega. You think that […]

Unlike what some non-Latino reporters might tell you (seriously, you have to see who is criticizing this poll), the following poll conducted by Latino Decisions pretty much confirms yet again what anyone in the Latino media space has been telling you all along: immigration still matters to U.S. Latino voters. National Poll of U.S. Latinos […]

Thanks to Saturday Night Live, now everyone is up on New York City’s new marijuana policy. If you missed it, here’s the clip. And legally, it was correct: From now on, merely possessing less than 25 grams of weed in public won’t get you arrested. But it will get you a summons, and you’ll have […]

Editor’s Note: The following essay is a direct response to Justin Vélez-Hagan’s piece on Fox News Latino, entitled “Puerto Ricans will be hurt the most by President Obama’s executive action.” In a recent opinion piece, Justin Vélez-Hagan, founder of the National Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce and economic policy researcher at the University of Maryland, […]

We are thinking that the Breitbarts of the world are now writing skits for Saturday Night Live, since it is obvious from this skit that even when it comes to satire, few are even realizing that in the end, President Obama’s executive action didn’t magically turn millions of people into instant citizens. Or that it […]

As long as Republicans do little to condemn what Sarah Palin and her neo-nativist friends say with no fear of reprisal or consequences, this country will never heal and we will never get beyond the insulting notion that if you are a brown immigrant, you are a criminal. Or a terrorist. Yes, this is what […]

It has been a heady 48 hours from the lead-up to “what will President Obama say about immigration?” to what he actually said last night in a national address to the nation that mainstream networks ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX didn’t think was important enough to pre-empt its prime time programing. Nonetheless, the close to […]