Health Risks Of Living In US Border Colonias Prompt Funding Increase Proposal

Health Risks Of Living In US Border Colonias Prompt Funding Increase Proposal

NewsTaco April 20, 2015

*This is very good news! There are twenty-five hundred colonias along the U.S.-Mexico border where conditions are equal to third-world standards. President Obama wants to increase funding by 50 percent […]

Hispanics face serious drinking water issue along Texas border

NewsTaco March 10, 2015

*This is also part of the national Latino narrative. There are places in Latino concentrated South Texas where as many as 90 thousand people have no running water. It’s also […]

Lourdes Flores Helps Texas Colonia Residents Help Themselves

Mary Mata March 4, 2013

By Priscila Mosqueda, Texas Observer Lourdes Flores didn’t know she wanted to help others until someone helped her. She was born in Reynosa, Mexico, and moved to Mission, Texas, at age […]

Nerd In The Colonia

Mary Mata August 23, 2012

By Eres Nerd, NewsTaco They were cotton fields located on a floodplain of the Rio Grande. Irrigation canals divided them. Water flowed from the open canal gates soaking the cotton […]