La Prensa San Diego

By Sylvia Manzano The 113th Congress includes a record number of thirty-eight Latinos elected officials. These notable numbers have both policy and political implications for the future of Latino politics in the United States. First though, some demographic facts about the 113th. Demographic Profile The House Representatives includes thirty-five Latino members, another three are members [...]

Latinos and the 2nd Obama Administration Analysis By Charles Kamasaki For perhaps the first time in history, the Latino vote is widely acknowledged to have proven decisive in a Presidential election. How should the community’s advocates react? The natural tendency is to push for more across the board, hoping that the community’s greater political power [...]

By Mark R. Day When you examine how political power is distributed in Escondido, Calif., the picture is not rosy for Latinos. They constitute only 12,000 registered voters out of a total of 55,000 in a total population of 160,000. In the last election, only 10 per cent of these voters made it to the [...]

Guest Editorial: By Angelo Falcón As we talk about Latino or Hispanic politics in this election year, most make an automatic link between this racial-ethnic identification and a liberal political orientation. A Latino social policy agenda is generally seen as based within a general liberal New Deal framework. Latinos may be generally socially conservative on [...]

Guest Editorial: By Marisa Treviño LatinaLista Two separate headlines appearing in today’s news brought home a simple fact that is eluding many Latinos — political influence isn’t gained by being a majority in numbers; it’s earned by being a majority of voters. Somehow, that simple nugget of common sense isn’t resonating with Latino voters this [...]

Commentary: By Maria Cardona President Obama is indeed a profile in courage. He has made history yet again with his announcement that he supports full marriage equality for gay and lesbian Americans. Bravo, Mr. President. Now comes all the warnings and predictions of what this will mean for the election in November. One of those [...]

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 Jennifer Baires & Jamie Goldberg New America Media/The California News Service Editor’s Note: California’s Latino GOP leaders recently debated whether Republicans’ anti-immigration stance is the only important issue for Hispanic voters. BURLINGAME —Rocky Chavez, a former Undersecretary of the California Department of Veterans Affairs, is a proud Republican. Chavez joined the GOP while serving with [...]