I knew that starting my recent interview in Miami with Archbishop Desmond Tutu with a question about soccer would distract …
FOR LATINO IMMIGRANTS, THREE LESSONS FROM APARTHEID
Chavez; Venezuela’s Censor in Chief
Let’s start with three things that have become self-evident. One: Hugo Chavez, despite what he says, does not govern Venezuela …
RUBEN BLADES, TO THE LEFT
“Right or left?” I ask Ruben Blades, the noted Latin American actor, musician and politician, during a recent interview. Before …
OFFICIAL U.S. POLICY: LIE
Let’s start with what I believe: There is no idea more revolutionary in our modern world than the affirmation that …
OUR WIKI-WORLD
Nothing is secret. The recent stream of confidential American foreign policy documents revealed on the website WikiLeaks confirms that we …
TECH-ADDICTED
ABIQUIU, N.M. _Traveling to this isolated town in northern New Mexico is like traveling into the distant past.
OF POPES AND PROPHYLACTICS
I have never known anyone who, in the heat of the moment, has suddenly stopped unwrapping a condom to ponder …
A CHANCE TO DREAM BIG
A great cruelty exists within the U.S. educational system: Millions of undocumented students are allowed to attend high school, yet …
THE NEW LATINO POWER
The midterm elections demonstrated the power of the Latino vote > across the United States. And in this strength there …
WHEN IT COMES TO ITS PROBLEMS, MEXICO IS A MERE SPECTATOR
In the complex relationship with its neighbor to the north, Mexico has been reduced to the role of spectator, merely …