We sang in Spanish, fell in love with ‘Coco’ — Latino culture trumped hate in 2017

We sang in Spanish, fell in love with ‘Coco’ — Latino culture trumped hate in 2017

Victor Landa December 13, 2017

If you’re a Latino in America — or Latinx, the gender-neutral the younger generation prefers — the national landscape felt particularly brutal this year, the stinging divisive words of President […]

Laughter, fear and Trump at the Spanish-language circus

NewsTaco April 13, 2017

*Why you should read this: Because it’s a good story. Because it shows the Trump effect from an unexpected place – circus attendance is down because of fear of deportation. […]

The Spanish Lesson I Never Got at School

NewsTaco November 30, 2016

*This is a terrific and needed read, especially in light of the post-election attempts to launch a new “political correctness” where bilingualism is seen as detrimental to national unity. It’s […]

Latino Racial Slurs is the top trending topic on NewsTaco

NewsTaco October 24, 2016

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Top Latino Racial Slurs It’s a story written and posted in 2011 and this past week it got the top number of page views of all […]

Bus driver fired for pouring water on Hispanic 8th grader

NewsTaco September 6, 2016

*Do you think incidents like this one have become acceptable or more common because of Donald Trump’s rhetoric? To what extent is he making overt racism a new normal? VL […]

‘Get off the stage!’ Crowd yells at commencement speaker after she uses Spanish, mentions Trump

NewsTaco May 25, 2016

*Where do you fall on this, if any place at all? She spoke a few words about holding Donald Trump accountable, she spoke a few words in Spanish, and she […]

So You Can’t Speak Spanish

NewsTaco June 15, 2015

By Dr. Henry Flores, NewsTaco It’s become evident that a double standard exists when it comes to the virtue of speaking our mother tongue.  Recently, Julian Castro and Ted Cruz […]

The effect of Spanish on Republicans

NewsTaco October 8, 2014

*Fascinating, this verifies what many of us knew to be true: “For Democrats, it made no significant difference which version of the clip they viewed; but Republicans exposed to Spanish […]

Is ‘Spanglish’ Proof that English has Diluted Spanish?

Mary Mata January 17, 2014

By Nicole Akoukou Thompson, Latin Post “Spanglish” has been called English’s assault on the Spanish language; an implementation of English in routine speech or writing of Spanish-speakers that leads to the invention of words […]

Spanglish and the Royal Academy

Mary Mata December 16, 2013

By Ilan Stavans, The Chronicle of Higher Education Not long ago, the Real Academia Española, its matrix located in Madrid, with 21 branches throughout the Spanish-speaking world, did something at once surprising […]