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An Change.org petition by Armando Cruz Velasco of Hesperia, California, is calling to get rid of a “Fiesta de los muertos” Scare Zone at Knott’s Scary Farm (part of the famous Knott’s Berry Farm theme park). Cruz Velasco’s petition says: For the last few years, Knott’s Scary Farm has had a Day of the Dead […]

The following is an actual product. How do we know? It’s in flipping SkyMall. Then there is this: Is this a real product? Let’s read the description from the SkyMall page: This stand-out baby gift is the whole enchilada. So cute you could just eat them up! Soft to the touch and gentle against the skin, […]

For the last couple of weeks Holyoke, Massachusetts, has been at the center of a dispute over the place of Puerto Rican identity in its public art. The controversy started when Mimi Wielgosz objected to having David Flores’ mural, depicting a standard Puerto Rican license plate saying “Puerto Rico, Holyoke, Isla del Encanto” on her […]

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Today the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) released the following report, saying that it “illuminates the inhumane interior Immigration and Customs Enforcement practices that continue unabated while the President postpones action and it highlights the human cost of the delay. The key findings shed light on an agency driven by one calculated mission, to […]

Reading about Mexico reminds me of El Salvador. Older Salvadoran sensations —the smell of rotting flesh mixed with the sweet fragrance of almond trees, the sight of young faces burned into half skeletons that look like the masks our kids wear for Halloween, the unforgettably sad sound of a dead student’s mother screaming without ceasing— […]

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In case you missed it, Enrique Peña Nieto appeared on CNN yesterday Fareed Zakaria. The Mexican president shared his thoughts about the U.S. and immigration. Here is a clip:

So our friends at Pocho.com got a reply from the Berkeley landscaper whose “f*cking illegal immigrants” email to a Berkeley college student went viral. Here is what was sent to Pocho’s Lalo Alcaraz: hi mr. alcaraz, this gmail acct was accessed without our authorization after using a public computer and some logout problems. sorry for […]

In response to an email exchange between a local Berkeley landscaper and a student member of UCBerkeley’s Chican@/Latin@ Architecture Student Association (CASA) which contained rather disparaging and racist language regarding Latinos and immigrants, CASA posted the following statement last night on its Facebook page: Our intent, as the Chican@/Latin@ Architecture Student Association, is to advance […]

Yesterday morning we shared the news of an email exchange between a student member of UCal Berkeley’s Chican@/Latin@ Architecture Student Association and Sachi Landscape who wrote the following in response to the student’s request for a tour: Reaction to the story went viral, with over 20,000 views in just hours and growing. Attempts to reach […]

Call this a study in two videos. Here is a portion of what President Obama said tonight at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. (The full video can be seen here.) This is the activist who interrupted him. Her name is Blanca Hernández. Here is the […]

Look, actual intelligent political analysis from CNN today about where the U.S. Latino electorate is at just weeks before the midterms. It’s a message that has been ongoing for a while now. If you haven’t read Ed O’Keefe’s piece in The Washington Post today, you should.

UPDATE: The owner claims her email was hacked. This week on Facebook, Vanessa Hernández Juárez, a member of UCal Berkeley’s Chican@/Latin@ Architecture Student Association, posted an email exchange she had with Sachi Landscape, a local Berkeley company. The email says it all: Post by Vanessa Hernandez Juarez. Are you joking? Go ask a Latino based […]

Just when I think that the notion of “white Hispanic” has faded away, several more commentaries continue to appear. All raise important points yet miss others that are equally important. (I want to thank Christina Saenz-Alcánatra for effectively and succinctly explaining the arguments of various commentaries.) To discuss “white Hispanics,” means to discuss two issues: one […]

The following video is from 2013. His name is Rojo Córdova. His poem is called “DosMilMex.” From the documentary “Hecho en México.”

We have known immigrant rights activists Julio Salgado and Jesús Iñiguez for years, and this week, we got a YouTube email about their new “Osito” web series, so obviously we checked it out. FYI, the videos are raw but they are real, and to be honest with you, just seeing two very committed activists just […]

The following video clip from Media Matters captured today from Laura Ingraham’s show pretty much confirms that her ridiculous rant about a bilingual interview conducted by MSNBC’s José Díaz-Balart backfired big time. Just listen to the first few minutes. According to Ingraham, she was only “teasing people who try to do simultaneous translation because it’s […]

The political climate continues to get partisan ugly in New Mexico, as Republican governor Susana Martinez faces a re-election bid this November. A few weeks ago, her Democratic opponent Gary King used a quote from Dolores Huerta to suggest that the nation’s only Latina governor lacks a “Latino heart.” Now a new local story pretty […]

The plane lands at Luis Muñoz Marín Airport. The passengers erupt in spontaneous applause. No matter how many times I go back home, it never ceases to amaze me. Puerto Ricans so happy that in only minutes they will walk out and, like returning sons and daughters, defy the ending of the tearful national anthem […]

The following video, which is really a serious video, is not a skit. It is a real campaign developed by one of Mitt Romney’s former ad guys. As you might imagine, such gold (the music, the examples, the oh-so-handsome people) has led to some very creative social media responses. #IAmARepublican is worth checking out this […]