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Phoenix, Arizona. Pale blue sky blushes at sunset. The heat still feels just warm on the skin this time of year. Food trucks serve up some of the best tacos this side of the border. It‘s been five years since SB1070 was signed into law. Governor Jan Brewer and state Senator Russell Pearce are out […]

When Sean Penn tossed off the ostensible insult (“Who gave this son of a bitch his green card?”) in making the Academy Awards introduction to his longtime collaborator and friend, the visionary Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, there was universal outcry over what was later explained as both a joke between colleagues and a back-handed […]

The following video, posted two days ago on Facebook, has already gotten over five million views, 74,000 likes and 124,000 shares. It is about 17 seconds long, and it shows a flour tortilla on a record player as “Jarabe Tapatío” (perhaps the most overplayed Mexican song ever) plays on.   What a tortilla sounds like […]

As you know, we like to check out what’s new in Neo-Nativism, so we subscribe to the newsletters of several so-called “Patriot” groups. Last night we got this email from a Maryland group with the following subject line, “Can It Get Any Worse?” You can read more about the context of the email here and […]

The things you find on the Internet. Here a 2012 video from South Africa that now making the rounds online and getting more and more attention. By the way, protesters in Johannesburg marched earlier today against recent violent attacks on immigrants. Nando's "immigration" chicken ad is going viral This ad, banned in South Africa in […]

This weekend we heard a story discussing the systematic “exporting” of drug addicts from many Puerto Rican municipalities to Chicago. We were disturbed both by the policy and by the way in which the story was framed in the pieces we heard. The stories we heard emphasized a corruption scheme in which Puerto Rican municipal […]

Last month, I was a guest on Hot 97 FM to discuss race relations and law enforcement with other invited guests. When the rest of the people in the discussion found out that I was a registered Republican, they were floored. My way of thinking, my views and the fact that I went on this […]

A week after I completed AIT (job-training school you go to after Basic Training), I found myself on a bus listening to three senior NCOs, each one close to retirement, having what seemed to me at the time to be a peculiar and surprising conversation: “I hate when people say we fight for freedom. I […]

Editor’s Note: The author emailed us last week, granting us permission to publish the following piece. An original version was published here. In life, as the saying goes, nothing is certain except for death and taxes. I propose another: migration. Migration represents a universal human right. Some economists want us to believe that humans migrate, especially the […]

Last week, after we shared the news that a new hologram Selena Quintanilla-Pérez is a project many in our social media community thought was just “creepy,” we wrote to the company entrusted to bring back the spirit of the legendary late singer to the stage. This is the email discussion we had with Abelardo Rodríguez, […]

Meet César A. Cruz Teolol, recently featured on Meredith Vieira for his incredible work and contributions to the Latino community. Cruz, originally from Guadalajara, Mexico, came to the United States as a child to be reunited with his mother. Like many immigrant mothers, César’s mother set out for the U.S. in pursuit of a better […]

Leave it to The Economist for reminded us all that they are clueless. For an article about the rise of U.S. Latinos, this is the cover the magazine has for one of its editions. No worries, they have a China one, too. This week we have two different regional versions of our cover March 14th […]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Well, sort of. As a resident of a small college town in North Florida, I can say with certainty that it is business as usual. Local bars are promoting their Irish-themed drinks, people are testing what shade of green will be appropriate for their beer, while others are just looking for […]

St. Patrick’s Day is very special in Mexico because it is a time when Mexicans remember the San Patricios, or the Battalion of St. Patrick.

I do wonder that if former Univision host Rodner Figueroa had said what he said on Spanish-language television 10 years ago, he would still be part of the Univision family today, for the very reason that Spanish-language media didn’t have as much of a mainstream national or digital reach as it does now. Maybe a […]

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 […]

On the morning of February 11, in a park in the city of Santiago, Dominican Republic, a Haitian man was found hanging from a tree. Bound hand and foot, the corpse of Jean Baptiste Harry has prompted special investigations, incited fiery protests on both sides of Hispañola and become the flashpoint in an international debate […]

When speaking to MSNBC’s José Díaz-Balart at the February 25 Immigration Town Hall, President Obama unequivocally explained that despite the federal court injunction of his executive actions, individuals who may qualify are not at risk for deportation and, moreover, there would be “consequences” if ICE employees ignore existing deportation policies. Despite these assurances, on literally the […]

The shooting death of Antonio Zambrano-Montes in Pasco, Washington, last month has led another family to share troubling details about the death of Brad Jensen, which happened last year in Pasco. Here is the report from local media. NBC Right Now/KNDO/KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA | For more, read here.

A few things you need to know: tax stories are really complicated and quite frankly, a bit geeky. You should also know that Puerto Rico is on the brink of bankruptcy. I’m pretty sure that you haven’t heard about that fact, nor about the story that governor Alejandro García Padilla and his status-quo pro-Commonwealth Popular […]

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 […]