To Gov. Mitt Romney: Being Latino won’t help you in the election
Sorry, Gov. Mitt Romney, but even if you were a Latino it wouldn’t help you win the election. On a private recording at a fundraiser dinner, Romney jokingly said that had his father been born to...
View ArticleBringing a ‘Giant Saturday’ to the U.S.
If you have never accidentally stumbled onto a showing of “Sábado Gigante” on a Saturday night, it means you have a life, but it also means you’re missing out on one of the most cultural and wild...
View ArticlePuerto Rico tries to succeed while others try to secede
Puerto Rico could become the 51st state of the United States, possibly leaving Guam and the Philippines to wonder, “Damn, that could have been us.” The U.S. hasn’t allowed a state to join since Hawaii....
View Article¡Viva la Mexican food!
First, we took over California. We’ll soon take the U.S., and now your snack food. That’s right. The last part of the take over is aimed at America’s pudgy stomach. But this is not something out of the...
View ArticleMost exclusive country in the world
America is like the exclusive nightclub everyone wants to get into, and immigrants, especially Mexicans and Latinos, are near the bottom of the list. When talking about illegal immigrants, I’ll hear...
View ArticleDios Mío, Let’s get a Latin Pope
Pope Benedict XVI gave up being pope for Lent. OK, maybe not, but when news broke that the pope would be retiring, it led everyone who heard the news to ask, “wait, popes can do that?” I thought it was...
View ArticleMexico: still not as bad as Taco Bell
Mexico has got a bad reputation. Don’t drink the water, be careful of the swine flu. Add the struggles of controlling the high levels of violent crime due to the country’s ongoing drug war and you’ve...
View ArticleArizona: a non-Mexican zone
Arizona: where medical marijuana is legal, but Mexicans are not. It’s true, Arizona and Latinos haven’t had the best of relationships, as Arizona sees its southern neighbors in the same way Homer...
View ArticleSo close to Hollywood, yet so far away
Quick, think of a prominent Mexican actor or star. When George Lopez, who barely counts, comes to mind first, there is an issue. There have been few portrayals of Mexicans in any American pictures and...
View ArticleEl Futuro de California
The future of California will be vastly different than what it is now, and I’m not talking about metallic, shiny buildings or flying cars. Those should have been here by now anyway. I’m talking about...
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