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When Lalo Alacaraz invented ‘Self Deportation’ (audio)

NewsTaco October 18, 2012

By Rafalca D. Portado, Pocho Ñews Service Lalo Alcaraz AKA Daniel D. Portado invented Self Deportation as a joke in 1994, and now it’s part of Gov. Mitt Romney’s platform. Nancy Lopez interviewed the Jefe-in-Chief for Radioambulante. […]

Will Raul Castro’s Travel Reforms End My Own “Island Imprisonment”?

Mary Mata

How an Accused Guatemalan War Criminal Won U.S., Canadian Citizenship

Mary Mata

Will Cuba’s Absurd Travel and Immigration Restrictions End?

NewsTaco October 17, 2012

By Yoani Sanchez, Huffington Post Latino Voices I have accumulated 20 negatives in just five years to my requests to travel. Twenty times I have tried to leave my country […]

Celebrating Chávez Monument, But Where Are Farm Workers Now?

Mary Mata October 15, 2012

By Ivan Delgado, Aurora Saldivar, Johnny Flores, New America Media KEENE, Calif. — On October 8, 2012, over 6,000 people descended upon Villa La Paz — the home, operational headquarters and […]

PRISONS: A Call to End Racial Warring

NewsTaco October 11, 2012

By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog A group of inmates in California’s maximum security lockups — Pelican Bay, Corcoran and Tehachapi — are calling for an end to the racial warring […]

Latino Voters to Say ‘Adiós’ to Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Mary Mata

By Griselda Nevarez, Voxxi Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is facing his toughest re-election race in his 20-year tenure and a group of young Latinos in Arizona are working to ensure he […]