What Texans Can Learn From The Argentines

What Texans Can Learn From The Argentines

Mary Mata July 5, 2011

By Dr. Henry Flores I really don’t know what to say about all the ugliness that is going on right now in the Texas State Legislature and, frankly, across the […]

News Taco’s Latino 4th Of July Coverage Roundup

Mary Mata July 4, 2011

We at News Taco hope you’ve had an excellent July 4 weekend, we just wanted to share our coverage of this holiday with you, have a great, safe evening! What […]

The Spanish, Tejano & Latino Contributions To Independence

Mary Mata

By Dan Arellano In all of the wars that this great country has been involved in Americans of Mexican/Spanish descent have always been amongst the first to fight, the most […]

What Was Life Like In 1776 In Texas And Mexico?

Mary Mata

By Richard G. Santos Texas, the geographic area now called the U. S. Southwest and Northern Mexico, in 1776 was a war zone. The Spanish settlements, ranchos, haciendas and missions […]

In Monterrey We’re All Becoming Just Numbers — Or Targets

Mary Mata July 1, 2011

By Wuicho Vargas For the grill to burn just right, the night has to unfold — along with the beer, the friends, the conversations, everything, it all has to be […]

No Latino Legislators Means Plenty of Anti-Immigrant Laws

Mary Mata June 30, 2011

Remember Rebecca Forest? That lady who blamed all of Texas’ problems on “Hispanic legislators?” Well, according to PolitiFact, she had a point: states with big percentages of Latino legislators didn’t […]

Border Residents Delivered By Midwives Barred Entry To U.S.

Mary Mata

By Jazmine Ulloa Published: May 13, 2010 IT WAS JUST ANOTHER SWELTERING MONDAY MORNING in August. Yuliana Trinidad Castro sat in her truck with her mother, sister, and newborn daughter, windows […]

News Taco To Go: Racism, Valedictorians, Voters & New Mexico

Mary Mata

Anti-Immigrant Bill Fails In Texas Pennsylvania Town Sees First Latino Valedictorian Why Does Jose Become Joe But Not The Other Way Around To Mobilize 12 Million Latinos Register 15 Million […]

To Mobilize 12 Million Latinos, Register 15 Million

Mary Mata June 29, 2011

Before we begin mobilizing Latino voters for the 2012 presidential election, we must understand the population of available voters in our community as well as the total number of Latino […]

Anti-Immigrant Bill Fails In Texas

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You’d need a diagram to figure out exactly how it happened, but suffice it to say that the state senators in Texas gathered their marbles and went home. And just […]