By Melissa Blair.
Picture it – Texas, Tuesday, March 2, 2010 the Texas Republican Primary and the Conservative slap heard round the state! Several Conservative Republican Hispanics found themselves without a home that night; I was one of them I thought. Races by Hispanic candidates were lost all around the state at every level, even conservative incumbents appointed by Governor Perry. What went wrong?
In February, the number of unemployed persons in the United States reached 14.9 million. The unemployment rate remained at 9.7 percent but employment dropped by another 36,000.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday that nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (-36,000) in February, and the unemployment rate continues at 9.7 percent.
However, as “The [...]
Emperador Maximiliano
The push to gain Hispanic readership by American press associations today is nothing new. In an article published at the beginning of the 20th century, we can see that earning the trust of Hispanics in the U.S. was already a concern.
By Armando Miguélez.
If we take a look at the United States during the 19th century to see what role Hispanics played in the early years of this new nation, we are pleasantly surprised to see that not only were many Hispanics involved in the political genesis of the U.S. (Bernardo Gálvez, Juan de Miralles, Francisco [...]
President Obama spoke shortly about immigration reform in his first State of the Union address: “We should continue the work of fixing our broken immigration system – to secure our borders, enforce our laws and ensure that everyone who plays by the rules can contribute to our economy and enrich our nations,” said Obama.
After this, [...]
By Alice Gomez and Lucia Matthews.
It is official Super Bowl XLIV will be a faceoff between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts at the Sun Life Stadium in Miami, Florida on Feb 7. More and more U.S. sports leagues are courting the lucrative Hispanic market in attempt to tap into an aggressive [...]
Hispanic women of Latin American heritage in the United States have a long and important history. Thousands of Hispanic women can trace their ancestry in territories that became part of the United States back to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, well before the great waves of European and Asian immigrants.
It is difficult to find [...]
By James Nava.
Free markets, when left to operate without restrictions, or government intervention in the form of excessive regulation and taxing that can cause the system to appear be inefficient, and unjust, have always been effective and successful.
By Alex González.
Recent harsh criticism of Hispanic churches encouraging immigrants to participate in the 2010 census by conservative groups not only hurts religious Conservativism, but it also damages the image of the long humanitarian tradition of American religiosity. Protestant and Hispanic churches and the American Catholic Church have also pushed for an overhaul of the immigration system.
