By Andrew Cohen Brennan Center for Justice The law may sometimes lie in suspended animation — like it is now, today over voting rights — but politics always moves relentlessly ahead. So while the justices of the United States Supreme Court contemplate the fate of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which requires federal [...]
Plagued by Crime, Mexico Creates New Police Force
By Shannon O’Neil Latintelligence Since entering Los Pinos last year, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has wasted no time in pushing some of Mexico’s most-needed economic reforms through Congress, but the same has not been true for the government’s security strategy. Last week I spoke with Larry Mantle on KPCC’s “Airtalk” about Peña Nieto’s proposed [...]
Pablo Neruda: With Reverence
Condor Musings By now, many of us have heard that the body that carried our People’s Poet, Pablo Neruda, was exhumed on April 8, 2013 from his home grave at Isla Negra. This is an occurrence that has left me with a feeling I can best describe as melancholy; triste. In it, I find hints [...]
Guest Voz: The Time is Now for Dreamers: Join the rally April 10
By Lily Eskelsen LatinaLista Wednesday I will stand on the West Lawn of our nation’s capitol with thousands of others and demand that a dream come true. Congress isn’t Disneyland and I am not wishing on a star for Tinker Bell to wave a magic wand. It’s not that kind of dream. Real dreams aren’t [...]
Latina Cubicle Confidential™- Citizenship and Your Career
By Dr. Maria G. Hernandez Latina Cubicle Confidential™ According to the Pew Hispanic Research Center two-thirds of legal Mexican immigrants have not become citizens. It means that 5.4 million immigrants who could enjoy the benefits of citizenship have not completed the process. The rate of naturalization for legal Mexican immigrants is 36%–one of the lowest [...]
Texas Latino theater director travels to Cuba and discovers how local artists ‘speak’ from the stage
By Alain Castillo LatinaLista Despite equipment challenges and political oppression, Cuban theatre artists are producing great work and showing their solid commitment to the craft by staging productions using the most basic of equipment and shining an even brighter spotlight on themselves and their plays by criticizing their own society, says David Lozano, theatre director [...]
