Mexico Journalists Sign Narco-Violence Coverage Pact

Mexico Journalists Sign Narco-Violence Coverage Pact

NewsTaco March 25, 2011

What is it that they say about strength and numbers? 40 Mexican media groups that represent more than 700 newspapers, television and radio stations gathered for what looked like a […]

Central America Increasingly Caught Up In Drug Wars

Mary Mata March 24, 2011

Drug violence that has plagued Mexico and Colombia for decades is moving into Central America as the U.S., as well as Mexican and Colombian governments, step up enforcement on drug […]

Obama: US-Latin America Past is Past

NewsTaco March 23, 2011

Ask pretty much any person from Latin America and they’ll tell you that the one word that defines the US relationship to that part of the world is paternalistic, at times either meddling or […]

Brisenia Flores Killer On Trial, Has No Defense

Mary Mata March 22, 2011

The man who shot 9 year-old Brisenia Flores point blank in the face is currently on trial. Jason Bush, 36, also killed Brisenia’s father Raul when he and his accomplice […]

News Taco To Go: Charlie Sheen, Libya, McDonald’s, Guantanamo And Mexico

Mary Mata March 8, 2011

Charlie Sheen was fired from his job at “Two and a Half Men” after his antics over the past few weeks, which included rants, seeming drug use and anti-Semitic comments. Libyan […]

Latino Stereotype in Alabama Drug Trial

NewsTaco March 7, 2011

Here’s one for the water cooler and beyond (do people still hang out at the office water cooler to chat?) A Latina in Alabama was found guilty of possessing with […]

Enough With The War On Drugs Already!

Mary Mata March 4, 2011

Twenty year-old Marisol Marisol Valles García took over as police chief in a small town of Praxedis G. Guerrero on the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez after no one else would last […]

News Taco To Go: Jobs, Budget, Drug War, Health Care And Sex

Mary Mata

192,000 jobs were added to the economy in February, which is the biggest jump since mid-2010. Republican lawmakers are trying to pass off their cuts to the budget as job […]

Gun Used to Kill Immigration Agent Traced to U.S.

NewsTaco March 1, 2011

Here’s some salt on the would that Federal Agents won’t be too happy about. The gun that Mexican drug thugs used to kill an American ICE agent came from the […]

The Drug Wars Are Not What They Used To Be.

NewsTaco February 28, 2011

I remember the day they shot Cuco Reyes Pruneda. Or at least I remember the headlines that Sunday morning. I was on my way to buy Sunday morning barbacoa at […]