As the Yuletide approaches in the US followed by year’s end, the joy of the Latino celebration of these holidays is evident. This includes the sounds of villancicos, the stagings of the Posadas, accompanied by the season’s Hispanic gastronomical delights such as buñuelos, tamales, lechon asado, turrones and countless other delicacies from the different Latin […]

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It has been a rough election cycle for many of the moderate to conservative Democrats in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus with members such as John Salazar and Ciro Rodriguez losing their seats. Yesterday, Rep. Solomon Ortiz who has represented Texas 27th district since 1982 conceded the race to Republican Blake Farenthold. Farenthold gained notoriety in […]

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The only other agency of the federal government where Latinos have not become commonly employed nor have an appointed presence on the governing boards besides the intelligence community is the Federal Reserve System and its myriad components. At the national level, the Fed’s Board of Governors has only seven members appointed by the president and […]

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I have been told by some that many times Latinos aspire to the lowest common denominator, and when one examines statistics about our educational attainment, wealth building, teen pregnancy and incarceration rates, one might be led to believe that assertion on its face without considering other factors. However, the Latino education crisis is  certainly a […]

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As President Obama places his hand on Lincoln’s Bible to be sworn as the 44th President of The United States, history is clearly being made: it is the first African-American to occupy the office. In fact there has been no Jew, Italian, Frenchman, Southern or Eastern European descendant or Latino elected President of the U.S. The […]

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