Morning NewsTaco

Morning NewsTaco

NewsTaco August 20, 2012

Monday August 20, 2012 Latino Voters Could Swing Election [INFOGRAPHIC] (IVN News): Latino voters could swing election results this November, and the data revealing this are pretty dramatic. The Center for […]

Rafael Correa: The Minor-League Caudillo

Mary Mata June 27, 2012

By Esther J. Cepeda, Voxxi CHICAGO — You’ll have to forgive me for taking on an obscure topic today, but it’s not often that my father’s stunningly beautiful homeland is […]

Anti-“Gay Conversion” Activist Now Health Minister In Ecuador

Mary Mata January 24, 2012

Carina Vance Mafla, is set to take the reins as Ecuador’s new health minister this week, this is particularly salient because she is also a lesbian and has advocated for […]

Clinics In Ecuador Use Torture To “Cure Homosexuality”

Mary Mata November 8, 2011

While some places in Latin America have made great strides in terms of promoting gay rights, such as legalizing same-sex marriage in Mexico City and Argentina, others remain far behind […]

31.7 Million Mexicans, Millions More Latinos In The U.S.

Mary Mata May 31, 2011

The Pew Hispanic Center released an interesting report last year, finding based on 2009 and 2010 Census data that there are 31. 7 million Latinos of Mexican origin in the […]

Ecuadorian Abuelita Takes Down Chevron

Mary Mata February 24, 2011

Oil giant Chevron was ordered by an Ecuadorian judge to pay $9.5 billion in fines and damages after decades of polluting parts of that country where María Aguinda and her […]

Ecuadorian Dwarfs Immune To Cancer, Diabetes

Mary Mata February 17, 2011

People in parts of Ecuador with a genetic mutation preventing them from growing more than four feet tall are immune to cancer and diabetes — thanks to their genes, according […]