NewsTaco Week in Review: Machos, Telenovelas, Militares y la Política
Time to round up this week’s NewsTaco news….
- It was the most racist of times when we saw how low some Republican lawmakers were willing to go with their scary Latino political ads.
- Perhaps a little scarier was the appearance of La Llorona in Hollywood.
- Lou Dobbs also made an appearance — as a hypocrite.  Another former CNN-er, Rick Sanchez, was probably fired unfairly.
- The New York Times told us that Latinos would sit this election out. Â It’s surely not because Obama has been kind of a disappointment, even as they try to conquer South Texas.
- We were all over Columbus Day, here and here.
- Carlos Guerra shared with us why voting is so damn hard.
- I almost got diabetes just from looking at this cake-pie and then Carlos started talking French toast. Â What was definitely not tempting were the disappointing tacos from Taco Bell.
- I was sorely tempted, too, to down my sorrows with sweets, considering that I’ll never find my prÃncipe azul.
- Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman downed tequila.
- Meanwhile, 101 year-old Eulalia GarcÃa Maturey became a U.S. citizen. Â Good thing she doesn’t do Twitter or Facebook, because Big Brother was watching.
- The National Guard protected our borders from immigrants like Maturey…again, while, the Mexican military was accused of wrongs in Ciudad Juárez.
- And popular culture decided to name another decade for Hispanics, timely, since the U.S. Census Bureau made a whole PowerPoint presentation about them!
- Fox News launched a Latino-themed web site.
- The 33 Chilean miner rescue began, was hopeful, and then turned into a telenovela.
- We talked health this week: Â the Latino Paradox, illustrated by Victor Landa’s family, “hippy” vs. Latina in popular culture and the macho men women crave when it’s that time.
