Blog Entries by Gabriel Lerner from 03/2012

How Many People Have Really Been Deported Under Obama?

Publicado 03.01.2012

Many Latinos are critical of President Barack Obama's occasional championing of undocumented immigrant deportation, believing that Obama has broken h...

In Colombia, Freedom Nears After 14-year Captivity

Publicado 03.03.2012

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Sgt. Luis Alfonso Beltran has endured 14 years of jungle prisons as a captive of leftist rebels while three of his aunts and uncle...

Former Mexican President Fox Wows Students

Publicado 03.03.2012

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox made time Friday to speak to Coronado Middle School students, encouraging them to value their educational opportu...

Latinos And Their Issues Absent From Super Tuesday

| Publicado 03.05.2012

Most people's attention, we know, is focused on tomorrow's big event. But not Latinos.

Nobody Loves Marco Rubio Anymore

| Publicado 03.07.2012

Once upon a time, in what seems now to have been many, many Republican presidential debates ago, Florida GOP Senator Marco Rubio was king of the hill.

Undocumented Immigrant Claims Employer Stole Winning Lottery Ticket

Publicado 03.07.2012

An unusual trial opened this week at Judge Goerge F. Nunn’s courtroom in the Houston County Superior Court in Warner Robins, Georgia. A man sued ...

Latinos Divided Over Texas Redistricting Agreement

Publicado 03.08.2012

The recent agreement reached between Democrats and Republicans over the Texas redistricting process broke an impasse that already caused postponing th...

Undocumented Immigrant, Jose Antonio Cua-Toc, Wins Lottery Ticket Lawsuit

Publicado 03.09.2012

Almost two years after he bought a winning lottery ticket and gave it to his boss to cash for fear of being exposed as an undocumented immigrant, Jose...

Republican Candidates Put The Final Nail In Quest For Latino Support

| Publicado 03.17.2012

With statements made by the candidates this week, it may be too late to change course. The GOP may have already become toast to the Latino community. Or tostados.

Uruguay Probes Possible Hospital Homicides

Publicado 03.18.2012

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Murder charges were filed against two male nurses Sunday and a female nurse was charged with covering up a crime in a case...

Pope Asks For Prayers Before Mexico-Cuba Trip

Publicado 03.18.2012

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI has asked for prayers for his upcoming trip to Mexico and Cuba. Sunday marks the last time Benedict will greet the ...

Report: Border-Watch Groups Shrink To Almost Half

Publicado 03.20.2012

They used to be in the evening news on our TV’s, day in and day out: in any of the border states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, they...

Health Care Reform Debate: High Stakes For Latinos Amid Record Breaking Hearing

Publicado 03.22.2012

As the health care debate approaches, a record has fallen amid the constant political bickering and impending oral arguments for and against the Patie...

Semana Latina: Hispanics Invested In Everything American

| Publicado 03.23.2012

The events unfolding this week and announced for the next one remind us once again that Latinos in the United States are an intrinsic part of the population, and as such, are as interested and invested as every other American in the state of our union.

Samantha And Guillermo Moreno, Gay Siblings, Tell Of Coming Out To Their Traditional Latino Family (VIDEO)

Publicado 03.25.2012

It is natural for parents to daydream about their children's future and to worry about the things which may cause misery or harm to them. In many Hisp...

Georgia Bill SB 458 Would Outlaw Foreign Passports As Acceptable ID

Publicado 03.28.2012

They have been beaten time and time again in federal courts. And they still insist. Republican-majority Legislatures in several states continue...

Semana Latina: What Is A Latino, Anyway? It Depends

| Publicado 03.31.2012

If there is such a thing as a white Latino, you are now reading an article written by one. I am so white, in fact, that my neighbors in the Latino East Los Angeles area used to answer me in English when I would speak Spanish, seeing me as a little more than a condescending gringo.