Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez has declared that on December 1 she will be making an important announcement about her famous annual holiday card. The OC Register has even speculated what this year’s card will look like, and following its lead, we have been thinking about what the Congresswoman might send out in this year of the [...]

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One issue that has been of recent concern on this blog is the coup and pending elections in Honduras tomorrow. It has been five months since the de facto rulers of Honduras have ousted the democratically elected Mel Zelaya with the military, illegally exiling him. In following due process, Zelaya should have been charged through [...]

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Yesterday, I read this article on Lou Dobbs and his new Latino outreach effort since he has left CNN. A week ago Dobbs went to Telemundo for an interview with Maria Celeste and indicated that he now supports a plan to legalize millions of undocumented workers. He also told Latinos that he is one of [...]

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I will be adding some new blog posts this week, but there have been some interesting items in the news worth noting. Lou Dobbs ponders a run for the Senate or the White House. I think that the opposition would have a field day with some of the outrageous things Lou has spewed forth. Ruben [...]

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California Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Meg Whitman has upped her Latino outreach in the past week or so. Blogger Matt Ortega has a good post up about her latest attempt, more mariachi style politics, which isn’t something new. Both political parties like to show candidates behind a backdrop of mariachis and tacos. You can see the [...]

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Andrea Nill at Think Progress has a pretty good post up about Republican Florida senatorial candidate Marco Rubio and his views on Ronald Reagan’s immigration policy, which back in 1986 granted amnesty for over 2.7 million people and provided a pathway to citizenship for agricultural seasonal workers. The Immigration Reform and Control Act, also known [...]

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One issue that has been brought to my attention regarding the recent posts that Seneca has contributed about the Honduras issue is basic women’s rights. This issue should be particularly appealing to Secretary Clinton, as fourteen years ago, she said, “Women’s rights are human rights.” Several prominent members of the de facto government in Honduras [...]

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This is another blog by David Molina, who serves on the Oregon Commission on Hispanic Affairs: On Sat., Nov 7th, 2009, huddled in the most unorthodox of locations, Tienda La Tapatia, a Mexican grocery and bakery in Gresham, Oregon, over 60+ Latino community members gathered around to have a frank conversation about the state of [...]

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