The news dropped earlier this month that two giants of English-language pop music, Bob Dylan and Smokey Robinson, were planning to incorporate something of a Latin tinge in their upcoming albums. The Dylan rumor comes from a report in the Aspen Times that David Hidalgo, a Mexican-American guitarist for the East L.A. band Los Lobos, […]
Read moreGeraldo Rivera Shows True Colors
It’s not like this hasn’t been a long time coming, particularly if you followed Geraldo’s late-night show on CNBC during the OJ Simpson trial, where notorious conservatives like the tag team of Joe Di Genova and Victoria Toensig were regular blowhards. This pattern was repeated during the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair, this time helping to […]
Read moreHuffington Post Latino Voices Game-Changer
Huffington Post Latino Voices Still Strikingly Inane Just yesterday we got new revelations about how the Latino vote will affect this year’s presidential election: Cuban-Americans now make up the majority of Latinos in the U.S.! In this March 19th post by Sarah Gates, she reveals how Eva Longoria, in her new role as political spokesperson […]
Read moreMira que verde es mi isla
Yo te busco más allá de la espera Más allá de yo mismo Y te quiero tanto que ya no sé Quién de nosotros está ausente [Paul Éluard, traducción mía] It was an uneventful plane ride, but at least I hadn’t bothered to fetch my laptop out of my bag. There was a certain calm […]
Read moreMarco Rubio and the Politics of Nada
Marco Rubio is the most hyped Latino/Hispanic politician in America today. As a senator from Florida, he plays a much more visible role than, say, Luis Gutiérrez, a representative from Obama’s political home, Chicago. And despite the sporadic buzz about Puerto Rico governor Luis Fortuño as a possible player in the Republican Party’s attempt at […]
Read moreThe Food Stamp President?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AnuDkXlX0o
Luis Gutiérrez is becoming one of the better You Tube orators in the House of Representatives. This one is a little bit behind the news cycle, but it’ll still get you to jump out of your chair with outrage if you let the words sink in. There’s also an element of comedy here, perhaps inspired by the Stewart/Colbert phenomenon. The sobering part is the empty seats in front of him.
Read moreSelf-Deportation Scoop
Just wanted to congratulate Rachel Maddow and The New York Times for figuring out that Lalo Alcaraz invented the idea of self-deportation, which was somehow conveniently picked up on during recent Republican debates. My reaction when I first heard the phrase was similar to what Lalo has been quoted as saying–it was a surreal journey […]
Read moreWhat Is To Be Done?
When I interviewed them last summer, Betty Peña and her daughter Eliza came to meet me with some avocados they brought from Caguas, where they live. They were shiny and ripe in the basket, a gift for the office full of people that were advocating for them. Betty is a schoolteacher and a member of […]
Read moreS**t People Say About Puerto Rico
Huffington Post Latino Voices Still Medicore Okay, maybe it’s not fair to trash the whole Huffington Post Latino Voices “channel” or whatever it is, but this “opinion” piece or whatever it is, might in some ways be worse than the sight of Amaury Nolasco in a dress. I will refrain from calling this an example […]
Read moreMartí and the Ugly Truth
José Martí, claimed by both sides in the Havana-Miami civil war, once wrote an essay called “The Truth About the United States,” which is of course a loaded phrase, kind of scary to contemplate, but why not start with the above, which is a picture of a 1949 incident in Old Havana’s Parque Central in […]
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