By STEVEN FALKENHAGEN Cronkite News Service PHOENIX (Tuesday, Feb. 17) _ A group of Hispanic lawmakers is urging members of President Barack Obama’s administration to join in a discussion of whether Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has engaged in…
By Jose T. Garza III Energy, excitement, and old-school swagger…that is what Pro Wrestling International (PWI) brings to the table. The Original Texas Gangster (OTG) and Zipperhead are two of the stars of Pro Wrestling International that will be…
By Ciarra Adams During his college days, Ed Miles Jr. studied alongside civil rights champion Jesse Jackson, the former Democratic presidential nominee. Ed Miles (Courtesy photo) Though Miles, a leader in the San Antonio community, may not have been…
By Kristian Jaime As the crowd gathered at the newly minted “Castro for Mayor†campaign headquarters, it was not long before many realized the race was about to reach a fever pitch. Mayoral candidate Julian Castro spoke to an…
By Maria Elena Cruz When Buddy Calvo decided to turn his experience of being burglarized into a movie, he never dreamed it would do so well—-it wasn’t a normal experience though. A group of vandals had been breaking into…
LatinaLista — Today, all eyes are fixed on Washington DC and ears glued for the latest hint at what was discussed at a late-night meeting between Obama and Clinton but the real action is happening outside the Beltway —…
LatinaLista — It’s been announced that yet another “reality” show will join the airwaves next Fall, but no contrived story lines with this show. Looking more like the perennial “Cops” series, the new camera-in-your-face series set to debut on…
LatinaLista — For lovers of Tejano music, this week has been rough with the news that Grammy award-winning Tejano superstar Emilio Navaira almost lost his life, and remains in grave condition, after his tour bus wrecked on a Houston…
LatinaLista — From all accounts, Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a calculating law enforcer. Just the kind high-crime cities want in combating drug dealers, murderers, rapists, robbers, pedophiles, etc. Except those kinds of criminals are not Arpaio’s…
LatinaLista — Things are heating up along the South Texas border and it’s not because it’s spring. Ever since Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, announced that his department was intent on seeing a physical barrier…
LatinaLista — Residents in the Texas Rio Grande Valley have been fighting two wars: the war in Iraq that has taken many of their young people from the region and the war against the Department of Homeland Security which…
LatinaLista — If there will be a running joke in this presidential election, it has to be the line that Gov. Bill Richardson shared during the Univision debate, and one that has been repeated often by critics of the…
LatinaLista — There’s advance word that things along the Texas-Mexico border will be heating up this weekend. No, it has nothing to do with the temperatures hovering near 100 degrees, nor are there any Minuteman protests planned that Latina…
LatinaLista — Mention homeland security and the immediate argument has been to “secure our borders.” The implication is always the U.S/Mexico border. Somehow we’ve allowed the mindset that scary people, aka terrorists, don’t come from Canada. That perception is…
LatinaLista — Homeland Security is going on with its plan to construct a double-row steel fence through the city of Laredo, Texas and over 153 miles along the Texas-Mexico border. According to Homeland Security, and Congress, the American people…
LatinaLista — Since members of the Minuteman group took their stations over the weekend along the U.S. Mexico border near Nogales, Arizona on the lookout for anyone trying to slip into the United States illegally, a funny thing has…
LatinaLista “To put this death toll in perspective, the fortified US border with Mexico has been more than 10 times deadlier to migrants from Mexico during the past nine years than the Berlin Wall was to East Germans throughout…
LatinaLista — One day in October 2004 in Douglas, Arizona, Ronald Morales, his two young daughters and his father Arturo decided to cut through some land leased by rancher Roger Barnett while out hunting. Barnett, with his AR-15 rifle…
