LatinaLista — Last week, I wrote a commentary about being left unimpressed, unmotivated and uninterested in setting up any neighborhood watch parties to watch the President’s State of the Union address. It’s not that I’m on the GOP bandwagon…
LatinaLista — Everywhere we turn in the media today, there are three stories that are dominating the headlines: Rightfully, the Haiti earthquake and the ongoing rescue efforts; Naturally, the Republican victory and what this means for healthcare reform and;…
LatinaLista — The Pew Research Center released a report today meant to evaluate how blacks view the state of “black progress,” especially since Barack Obama was elected president. Not surprisingly blacks responded favorably to most of the survey questions….
LatinaLista — There’s no denying that Rep. Luis Gutierrez’s immigration reform bill that he introduced in the House of Representatives this week caused a lot of buzz — from both sides of the aisle. Besides the point that immigration…
LatinaLista — Whoever created the phrase “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” was just plain dishonest. Obama delivers his push for healthcare reform to a joint session of Congress. No matter how…
LatinaLista — One of the universal signs of an abusive country that doesn’t respect basic human rights is when that country locks up a person and essentially throws away the key. In other words, the person is indefinitely incarcerated/detained…
LatinaLista — Wikipedia defines McCarthyism as: Caption reads “Say, Whatever happened to Freedom-From-Fear?” … the politically motivated practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. The term specifically describes activities associated with the…
LatinaLista — For those of us who advocate the government get started on reforming the nation’s immigration system, President Obama’s announcement that he’s pushing back the issue on his agenda until other priorities, like health care, get resolved are…
LatinaLista — Unlike past presidents who have lived sheltered and privileged lives, it’s not a stretch to see why it’s natural that President Obama would dive head first into the escalating race debate over the initial arrest of Harvard…
LatinaLista — The debate over healthcare reform is getting so ugly that President Obama has resorted to using his weapon-of-last-resort — bloggers! In a morning email, Latina Lista was notified of an afternoon blogger-only conference call with the President…
LatinaLista — President Barack Obama met with reporters from 14 regional newspapers today at the White House and declared: “We’ve got a very big border with Mexico. I’m not interested in militarizing the border.†However, for some who are…
LatinaLista — Today’s meeting between President-elect Obama and Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon was basically a get-to-know-you affair with small talk over a lunch that featured tortilla soup, choice of fish or steak with cilantro and for dessert, a coconut…
LatinaLista — Change is afoot in Washington and Obama hasn’t even been sworn into office yet. But the anticipation of the changes Obama pledged to do once he assumed office has been enough to get people to take the…
LatinaLista — Today’s nomination by President-elect Obama of Arne Duncan, the CEO of Chicago Public Schools, as Secretary of Education has been met with moderate approval ratings from several professional educational organizations in the city that knows him best,…
LatinaLista — A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll released yesterday shows most people are giving high marks to President-elect Obama’s Cabinet choices. Americans are “projecting their hopes” for the new president, says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of…
LatinaLista — President-elect Obama’s announcement of Sen. Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State ceased being newsworthy the minute it was leaked to the press before Thanksgiving. Rather, it’s more interesting, for the Latino electorate, at least, to see where…
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…
LatinaLista — Today, the McCain-Palin campaign issued a list of endorsements from 50 Hispanic business leaders mostly from Texas and California. Ordinarily, Latina Lista would receive a press release alerting us to this fact but for quite sometime Latina…
LatinaLista — The hint that this campaign is politics as usual was evident in Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech. With every punch she dealt the Obama campaign in her acceptance speech, a response “to set the record straight” was hurled…
(Update Correction (6/25/08): When originally posted, we failed to notice that the referenced article was an Associated Press article and not one originally reported on by El Nuevo Herald staff. Our apologies. Yet, the basic premise of the post…
LatinaLista — As much as some of us would like to think that this election is all about the issues, there’s no denying that a major issue for a lot of voters boils down to black versus white. In…
LatinaLista — There has been (g)rumbling throughout the Latino blogosphere as to what is taking the Obama campaign so long to reach out to the rest of the Latino electorate that aren’t yet completely sold on his candidacy —…
LatinaLista — The question of who will eventually be Barack Obama’s running mate is much more of a nail-biter than John McCain’s choice. Why? Because of an issue that has reared its ugly head and has shown us that…
LatinaLista — Not much has been heard from Patti Solis Doyle since her less than graceful exit as Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager back in February. Former Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle Ousted after illustrating that she just didn’t…
LatinaLista — The first time a study was done that foretold that supporters of one candidate would throw a political temper tantrum by not supporting the opponent if their candidate wasn’t nominated as the party candidate, was a study…
