By Selene Soria Borderzine EL PASO – When the pain from my wisdom teeth became unbearable my mother took me to the dentist who he told me I had to see a surgeon to get an extraction. I went…
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian EDINBURG,TX – To loud applause at a recent VAMOS annual scholarship banquet, UTPA President Robert Nelsen boldly asserted that the future of Texas lies with young Latinos. “The future is here, today. The…
By Christopher Leone Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday it could appoint “socially disadvantaged” farmers in six Arizona counties where the elected county committees may be lacking in representation by women and minorities….
By Guerrero Garcia Borderzine EL PASO – She slept comfortably inside her apartment in the Maxwood neighborhood in east El Paso not knowing that her car was broken into under the cover of the night’s darkness and that her…
By Arturo ‘Treto’ Garza Rio Grande Guardian HARLINGEN, TX — On Thursday April 26, 2012 I attended the last rites for a good friend, Mr. Pablo Diaz of Santa Maria, Texas. On this date the Committee on Minority Veterans…
By José Antonio López Rio Grande Guardian SAN ANTONIO — Recently, I discovered that I belong to a segment of the world population known as Haplogroup C. It is a human genetics classification based on mtDNA blood testing found…
By Amanda Duran Borderzine EL PASO – In an effort to explain the longstanding and sometimes complicated ties between border city El Paso, Texas and its Mexican sister city Juarez to fellow classmates at the School of Visual Arts…
By Stephanie Snyder Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Opponents of Proposition 107 had a favorite warning in the debate leading up to the vote. Pass the ban on racial preferences, they said, and it would mean the end of…
By VICTORIA PELHAM Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Pedro Lopez drove more than 41 hours from Phoenix to the U.S. Supreme Court, where he took part in a 48-hour prayer vigil this week asking God to strike down Arizona’s…
By Kristian Hernandez Borderzine EL PASO — A modern day champion for a free press, fighting to maintain and safeguard the lessons learned and taught by persons of color in the history of American journalism made his way south…
By Raul de la Cruz Rio Grande Guardian AUSTIN — The Guardian asked its good friend, Dan Arellano, president of the Tejano Genealogy Society of Austin, to give his thoughts on the historic Tejano Monument that was unveiled…
By Amanda Brinegar Borderzine EL PASO – El Paso born Carlos M. Montes has been a solidarity activist since the late 1960s, denouncing wars and fighting for immigration rights and better public education, but lately he can be seen…
By Dustin Volz Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – House Democrats invoked the name of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin on Tuesday as they filed a challenge to Arizona’s SB 1070, the immigration law to be heard by the U.S….
By Angela Covo La Prensa The City Council unanimously approved the San Antonio Local Filmmakers Grant (LFG), a $25,000 grant funded by the City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA) for local filmmakers ready to make feature-length…
By Erika Lopez Borderzine EL PASO – Josie Jimarez Howard imagined herself surrounded by artifacts from fascinating distant epochs as she pursued her passion for history tending to treasures in a museum after earning a degree in history from…
By Dustin Volz Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Citing the high number of cross–border tunnels that pop up in Arizona and California, a House committee Tuesday passed a bill toughening laws against the use of tunnels for smuggling underneath…
By Victoria A. Perez Borderzine EL PASO – Sitting on the cold hard cement the man was able to remove part of his blindfold and focusing his sight, the dim light revealed a small dirty room covered in blood….
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian SAN JUAN, TX — The head of homeland security in the United States says it is “unfortunate” that immigrants who have not committed a criminal act get separated from their families by ICE…
By Dennis M. Ayotte, Jr. La Prensa San Antonio.- Richard Rosen has quite the résumé— his film credits include writing and co-producing the documentary “The Heart of the City,” he’s created and produced artistic profiles of Degas for the…
By Dustin Volz Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Lawmakers pressed Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano about border security and deportation policies in two House hearings that lasted much of the day Wednesday. Napolitano’s appearance before a House Appropriations subcommittee…
By Arturo ‘Treto’ Garza Rio Grande Guardian HARLINGEN — A while back some of the leaders of America’s Last Patrol Post 3 were criticized when they made public that at a San Antonio Veterans Affairs meeting, they were told…
By Victoria Pelham Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – The number of American Indians who claimed to be multiracial jumped sharply over the last decade, but not so much in Arizona, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday. The bureau said the…
By Steve Taylor and Raul de la Cruz Rio Grande Guardian McALLEN, TX – The Texas Border Coalition says President Obama should have made a commitment to investing more in infrastructure at ports of entry at the nation’s southern…
By Aaron Martinez Borderzine EL PASO – As the drug war continues in Ciudad Juárez, one of the world’s deadliest cities just cross the border from the University of Texas at El Paso, the work of international students here…
By VICTORIA PELHAM Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – A U.S. appeals court panel criticized a Tucson federal prosecutor who it said “presented a falsified version” of testimony in a drug-smuggling case to make the defendant look as if she…
