LatinaLista — Domingo Martinez is Brownsville-born and bred but it’s not a place that he calls home anymore. For the last 20 years, he’s called the Pacific Northwest home, specifically Seattle — about as far away from the tip…
LatinaLista — The 4th of July is a special celebration for Americans. It’s the one day in the year when Americans celebrate being Americans — our freedom, our history, our patriotism, our foods and the past battles that shaped…
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian BROWNSVILLE, TX – Congressman Filemon Vela met recently with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in Washington, D.C. to discuss the impact sequestration is having on border crossings. The Brownsville Democrat said he came…
LatinaLista — The stories started trickling over the community listserve a few weeks ago. A woman whose mother was born in 1951 along the Texas-Mexico border by a midwife was having trouble getting a passport. It seems passport officials…
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…
