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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
Think Mexican points to a revealing 1972 interview with César Chávez, in which the famed labor leader and civil rights activist reproaches undocumented workers: “This is the case right now, one of the strikes we have with the Butte Gas & Oil Co., where we’ve closed them down. They’ve been unable to get strikebreakers, or have Read More
Someone at the AP either grew a heart or grew a brain: “The Associated Press dropped the term ‘illegal immigrant’ from its style guide Tuesday, handing a victory to immigration rights advocates and Latino media organizations who have pressured the news media for years to abandon a phrase that many view as offensive. The news Read More
Republicans, what has the country been telling you for the past year concerning the way you talk about Latinos? Tone, tone, tone. Yet it seems the GOP can’t go a week without doing or saying something without incurring the wrath of the 17 percent. This time, it’s an Alaska congressman: “Rep. Don Young says he Read More
As we know, Arizona has been in the spotlight for taking actions against Latin Americans — specifically, for SB 1070, which allowed the state’s police to check the immigration status of people they detain, and for HB 2281, which prohibits classes that “promote resentment toward a race or class of people,” that “advocate ethnic solidarity Read More
God said, “Let there be light on this ‘first Latino pope’ issue,” and God divided the “Latino” from the “Latin American.” From the AP via HuffPo: “He is being hailed with pride and wonder as the ‘first Latino pope,’ a native Spanish speaker born and raised in the South American nation of Argentina. But for Read More
The public has a penchant for looming conflicts. Last year it was the fiscal cliff. Now the country’s apparently headed toward a racial cliff: “A historic decline in the number of U.S. whites and the fast growth of Latinos are blurring traditional black-white color lines, testing the limits of civil rights laws and reshaping political Read More
It’s finally happened: “President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela died Tuesday afternoon after a struggle with cancer, the government announced, leaving behind a bitterly divided nation in the grip of a political crisis that grew more acute as he languished for weeks, silent and out of sight, in hospitals in Havana and Caracas. Close to tears Read More
First, on the GOP side: “House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said on Tuesday that he believes undocumented young people who entered the United States as children should be given legal residence and, eventually, citizenship, in what marks a reversal for the congressman who voted against the Dream Act less than three years ago. ‘A Read More
Fox News Latino attempts to count the number of Latinos serving in Congress: “There is no disputing this number in the Senate, which has three Latino senators. The House, however, is a whole other matter. The House Press Gallery, an administrative office of Congress that helps media and House officials get the data and background they need, Read More