La Prensa San Diego

The last time I saw her — wearing an ankle tracking device clamped on by ICE — she wasn’t laughing much First Person: By John Edward Rangel Working in a large, two story building that contains a combination restaurant/bakery/catering services and administrative offices to oversee it all can be challenging. Being a cog in this [...]

Perspective: By David Magallanes Amigos 805 As I walk across campus at the community college where I teach, I sometimes get the impression that I can almost hear my own footsteps as I walk toward my classroom or to an office I need to visit. In the parking lots, students actually have plenty of parking [...]

By Marisa Treviño America’s Wire The U.S. Department of Justice won a recent conviction in a Pennsylvania courtroom that sent a powerful message to Latinos nationwide—the government will not tolerate hate crimes against immigrants, even if they are not U.S. citizens. The federal government could easily have taken a hands-off approach after a state court [...]

By Elena Shore New America Media The killing of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin has ignited a dialogue about race among Latino journalists and bloggers over the complex racial identity of Latinos, and the simplified – and sometimes inaccurate — ways some media have reported it. Coverage of the Trayvon Martin case has varied widely [...]

‘I am only one person, but I can make a difference.’ The Board of Education un-animously approved naming the District’s newest school after Enrique S. Camarena, a former Marine, police officer and DEA agent whose death at the hands of a Mexican drug cartel in 1985 sparked what is now Red Ribbon Week in schools [...]

Frontera NorteSur As Mexicans took off from work and school for the long Holy Week-Easter holiday celebrations, the country’s presidential and congressional candidates inundated electronic media with new ads designed to win over the voters. A sampling of spots aired on Ciudad Juarez’s public radio station 106.7 FM over the Easter weekend zoomed in on [...]

In Arizona, a state notorious for how their officials treat undocumented immigrants, set a precedent that shocked those who thought they were above the law and shocked those that thought justice didn’t exist in the state. Three lawyers who were considered by many as the legal hit mob of Sheriff Joe Arpaio weredisciplined by a [...]

The “Ask a Mexican” columnist set to launch his new book “Taco USA” with a stop at the Centro Cultural de la Raza, April 11 By Abelardo de la Peña Jr. Nationally syndicated columnist. Bestselling author of ¡Ask a Mexican!. Managing editor of the OC Weekly. That’s a lot of work for one guy. Must [...]

First Person: By Joaquín Magón Coachella Unincorporated Editor’s Note: They may be too young to remember Cesar Chavez, but young people in California’s Central Valley are keeping his dream alive by continuing to work for the rights of today’s farm workers. For organizers and agricultural laborers here, Cesar Chavez Day isn’t just celebrated on March [...]

Analysis: In the national debate over our nation’s deficit, there are certain undeniable truths — the country is digging itself deeper into debt and something must be done. Both parties have presented their budgets to help the country regain a fiscal footing. With such an important issue impacting people differently based on their income and [...]

By Marisa Treviño LatinaLista There’s probably no other battle on US soil that has been as romanticized as the Battle of the Alamo. On the flipside, there’s probably no other US battle that has been so heavily influenced by Hollywood-invented stereotypes, misrepresentations and outright exclusion of facts than the Battle of the Alamo. Yet, on [...]

By Jeff Biggers AlterNet With the impeccable timing that continues to cement Tucson’s reputation as a hotbed of censorship and intellectual freedom violations, the online Tucson Citizen news site just announced that it has pulled the plug on the city’s most popular Latino blogger and activist, The Three Sonorans. Despite drawing over 1.6 million visits [...]

By Pablo Jaime Sáinz There was one person in Phyllis Muñoz’s life who always encouraged her to become a teacher: Her father, La Prensa San Diego founder, Mr. Daniel Muñoz Sr. But it wasn’t until she became a student aid, that she realized that education was her calling. “My dad had always said I should [...]

Por Pablo Jaime Sáinz Hubo una persona en la vida de Phyllis Muñoz que siempre la alentó a convertirse en maestra: Su padre, el fundador de La Prensa San Diego, Don Daniel Muñoz Sr. Pero no fue hasta que encontró un empleo como asistente de estudiantes, que ella se dio cuenta que la educación era [...]

By Suzanne Manneh New America Media Members of San Diego’s Iraqi community are expressing shock and surprise at the death of Shaima Alawadi, found lying in a pool of blood in the family’s El Cajon home last week. For many, the San Diego suburb has been “nothing but welcoming” to the thousands of Iraqis who [...]

By Elena Shore New America Media Fourteen-year-old Jocelyn wants to be the first person in her family to graduate. But now she may have to do it without the one person who most wanted to be there: her mom. When Alabama enacted the nation’s toughest immigration law, HB 56, her mother was faced with an [...]

By Katia Lopez-Hodoyan Vatican Correspondent Now that the Pope is in Guanajuato, Mexico, there’s one question that’s being raised over and over again…..Will his visit help stop the violence? Short term, the answer might be yes, but while that might be good enough for a few days, Mexican people are looking for a long term [...]