While the Cuban-American vote has been solidly Republican, many observers of Florida politics believe that this portion of the electorate is shifting left. This shift has the potential to be a game changer for the Democratic Party.
Miami is a place others can visit and never begin to grasp fully. For those of us who live here, it's lifelong learning in a city layered by the most fascinating forces ever to punch a seething metropolitan area out of a sleepy beach town.
"When a friend leaves, a very empty place is left behind, that can never be filled with the arrival of another friend". The words are from Argentinean composer Alberto Cortes. The feelings are profoundly mine.
Carlos Ascurra and Juan Gonzalez are much more popular as Viking Funeral than as Carlos Ascurra and Juan Gonzalez. It's not because they aren't impressively clever, interesting, talented dudes.
Leaders must commit themselves to a cultural promise in order to define their legacy. Why? Because the challenges that we face today require focusing on others, not just ourselves.
Alice's story is unique to those who don't equate Mexican Americans with punk rock, but as someone who grew up in L.A., the subculture heavily influenced my own rebellious youth.
Today we must ask Florida's leadership to cease their efforts to undermine democracy and instead, take up the concerns of Florida's citizens so that together, we can move the State, and the nation, forward.
How much more bloodshed do we need to see before the system is fixed? May the suicide of Joaquin Luna not go in vain.
Every week, Sergio, our resident chancludo, will turn a critical eye on political shenanigans, and current issues and events with his chancla firmly in hand.
Among today's entrepreneurs, few were a part of the wave of tiny private businesses that appeared in the mid-'90s, so they have no memory of the trauma of being shut down, of governmental will strangling them.
There's an almost pathological self-loathing of Democratic values at play among Arizona Democratic State Committee members.
"Why do your people hate me? I'm half-Mexican, and while I don't have the stereotypical Mexican brown skin tone, I'm no different than everyone on Univision!"
Someone lease tell me: why are members of the Tea Party trying to force Obama to deny birth control to women?
Peter King's targeting of the Muslim community is wrong and should cease swiftly. His attitude damages not only the Muslim community but all minority communities.
As families gather around the dinner table to celebrate Thanksgiving, we at Voto Latino thought we would remember some of the many good things that happened this year.
If the four million children in U.S. kindergartens were taught the truth about this most American holiday maybe we would have a healthier attitude on immigration reform and Americanos in general.
Show up with this flan for Thanksgiving dinner and you will be worshiped and gloried. Is your holiday meal traditional or do you add some sabor?
Newt Gingrich made a lot of sense on immigration in last night´s republican primary debate and by so doing, he may have briefly changed the conversation to a more realistic arena.
The "self-segregation" argument should not be used as a vehicle to discourage centers such as La Casa, but rather, should be used as fuel to spark more inter-cultural dialogue and inter-cultural understanding.