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Genocide. Millions of people around the world felt a whir in their hearts when they learned of the millions of Jews, union leaders, community organizers, gypsies, and good Samaritans who were victims of genocide by the Nazis during War II. Blessed are the justice workers and lawyers who tirelessly work to unveil more crimes of Read More
Something historic happened in Central America on Friday, May 10th. For the first time ever, a former head of state was tried and found guilty for crimes against humanity in his home country. For millions of victims of state-sanctioned human rights abuses across Latin America, the light of hope burned a bit brighter and our Read More
The Obama Administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which was announced by the Department of Homeland Security in June 2012, will probably not survive its first year in existence. U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor ruled, on April 23rd in the U.S. Court for the Northern District of Texas in Dallas, on a lawsuit brought Read More
My cousin came to America from El Salvador when he was a toddler. But he didn’t become a citizen until his second tour of duty in Iraq. At one point in his naturalization process, he was told to report to our county courthouse for the exam. “But I’m in Iraq,” he said to the civil servant Read More
Shortly after 70% of Latino’s votes contributed to President Barack Obama’s re-election, the RNC went back to the drawing board to try to figure out where they went wrong. It is fair to say that Republicans have traditionally underachieved when it comes to winning the support of Latino voters, who have historically supported Democratic candidates Read More
A fair path to citizenship. That’s the promise President Obama made. So I wonder what is his concern about the emerging agreement on immigration reform by the bipartisan senators. If the soon-to-be released bill with the proposed provisions is signed by President Obama, it may take 15 to 20 years for a current undocumented person Read More
The Puerto Ricans just voted on the island’s political status, but Pres. Obama is calling for a redo: “Puerto Rico may be getting another status vote. The White House budget submitted to Congress Wednesday includes a $2.5 million appropriation for Puerto Rico to hold another plebiscite on its relationship to the United States. Calling for another vote Read More
Being Latino readers probably already know that Latin America is an interesting mixtureof both progressive and oppressive laws concerning same-sex relationships. We’ve covered before how several countries allow sax-same marriages in at least parts of the individual countries. But now news coming from Uruguay has tipped the scale a little further towards the progressive side. Read More
John Womack begins the story best: “Shortly after dawn on April 10 [1919] Zapata and his escort were up and riding. This was Zapata’s home ground. Chinameca hacienda lay along the Cuautla River barely thirty-five miles below Villa de Ayala. It was one of the first places he had seized after joining Madero in 1911. Read More
As we all know, the quickest way to convince people to do something is to tell them they are forbidden from doing it. Currently, legislators in everybody’s favorite state — Arizona — are learning this most basic principle of reverse psychology. You see, in 2010, Arizona lawmakers passed a law to dismantle ethnic studies in Read More