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Latinos could start to change Trump’s rural America

NewsTaco June 21, 2017

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco  (2 minute read) The disgruntled rural and small town voter has gotten a lot of attention since Trump was elected president. They’ve become the cautionary tale, […]

How baseball can teach us to frame the new Latino narrative

NewsTaco June 8, 2017

A fight among Texas legislators, a civil rights budget cut, a US citizen detained by ICE – Is this a “new normal?”

NewsTaco May 30, 2017

Long-Lost Photos Reveal Life of Mexican Migrant Workers in 1950s America

NewsTaco April 14, 2017

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco (1 minute read)   TIME magazine has published a series of revealing photographs of the Bracero program from 1957. Sixty years ago the Saturday Evening Post […]

Does the “New Trump Era” have human selective breeding at its core? It’s not as crazy as it sounds.

NewsTaco April 12, 2017

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco (2.5 minute read)    eff Sessions was at the U.S.-Mexico border yesterday. The Attorney General was in Nogales, Arizona, speaking to a group of Customs and […]

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly gives Latino lawmakers a slippery story

NewsTaco April 5, 2017

*Why you should read this: Because while the Homeland Security chief says there are no immigration raids happening in “sensitive areas” the Attorney General and the head of ICE justify […]

Hollywood’s Latino exclusion snobbery set the stage for Trumpism

NewsTaco April 4, 2017

By Victor Landa NewsTaco (2 minute read)  I’m starting a collection of Latino paradoxes. So far I’ve collected two: The Latino health paradox – where U.S. Latino’s live longer than other […]