By Irete Lazo LatinaLista Author Irete Lazo Irete Lazo (a pseudonym) is the author of The Accidental Santera (Oct 2008, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press). Lazo received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, was an editor at Latina magazine and is currently a freelance science writer living near San Jose, California. In a [...]
Sixty-seven percent of the Latino vote should be enough to pay for a moratorium on immigration raids
LatinaLista — The unprecedented turnout of Latino voters for Barack Obama signaled not just a desire for change in the country but a change in how federal immigration policy is adversely impacting Latino communities. The importance of the Latino vote is now an irrefutable fact. Not because Barack Obama was able to garner 67 percent [...]
Free online site serves as digital classroom for learning English
LatinaLista — Regardless of the final outcome of what an immigration reform bill looks like, there are two things that are certain — 12 million people will not be deported and 12 million people will have to master speaking English. One of the biggest fallacies perpetuated by people who are against allowing these same undocumented [...]
Forget Secretary of State, Gov. Richardson should be Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
LatinaLista — The Latino blogosphere has been busily speculating about the chances of Gov. Bill Richardson being appointed Secretary of State in President-elect Obama’s administration. It goes without saying that the governor is qualified for the position but word is that he faces stiff competition —Â ”Sen. Kerry, Richard Holbrooke, a former senior U.S. diplomat; Sen. [...]
Latinos can’t move past identity politics until problems holding back Latino candidates are identified
LatinaLista — Identity politics, as defined by Wikipedia, is “ political action to advance the interests of members of a group whose members are oppressed by virtue of a shared and marginalized identity (such as race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and neurological wiring). The term has been used principally in United States politics since [...]
Bush team speeds to enact damaging new regulations before Obama can take office
LatinaLista — “Change” was the operative word for Barack Obama’s campaign and it seems that there is another word that characterizes what an Obama Administration will bring to Washington “transparency.” (Source: CNN) Just hours after Obama delivered his speech after winning the presidency, his campaign workers erected the web site Change.gov. In what has become [...]