Latino Journal in America

~ by Jesse Treviño I know this is going to sound gross, but have you ever seen a hog slaughtered? When the animal is ripped open, the stuff that pours out is revolting, and it smells. Welcome to the Texas presidential primary election on March 4. My father used to drag me many years ago to the local slaughterhouse to pick up cheapo meats. I felt ...

~by Jesse Treviño Like most Americans, I am watching less television since Friends and Fraser left the building. Then Cane and Friday Night Lights came along. I have been advised by National Public Radio that no more sugar will be harvested by Jimmy Smits and family for their rum company next season. They fell victim to the writers’ strike and, worse, bad ratings. ...

~by Jesse Treviño   Naturally, given the strife over the close contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, and the influential role that African Americans and Hispanics, finally, are having on the process, the calls have begun to change the proportional representation system that awards delegates to the candidates. And there are now demands, gaining in strength since Al Gore’s election was stolen by the shenanigans in Florida, to dump the ...

I watched the usual Lou Dobbs attack last night on CNN with the usual sense of sadness.  I was not sad for Janet Murguia, the leader of the National Council of La Raza, whom I have known for some time.  Janet, I was glad to see, took care of herself.   But I was sad for Dobbs.  Watching Dobbs through the years is having watched someone being corrupted by ...