By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Mexican Americans have had a huge impact on U.S. culture, from heroic military service to excelling in business. But they also had an influential role in modern U.S. music. I want to take this occasion to remember two great Latino musicians born in May who had a lot of hits on the radio. Let’s start with
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Nearly a decade after the failed U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) gun-running sting called Fast and Furious ended in the tragic Arizona desert murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is now demanding clarification about the bilateral operation, and has asked for a formal
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Not surprisingly, U.S. President Donald Trump has signed what he calls a pause to immigration to the United States for 60 days while the country battles with the spread of the covid-19 coronavirus. This announcement has spurred massive controversy both in the United States and abroad, particularly in Mexico. But it is important to understand that
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Although I live in the United States, as a Latino, I tend to follow Latin American politics closely, particularly in the case of Mexico. And in recent days, I’ve spoken with several of my Mexican friends and they’re all singing the same song: How did this guy Andrés Manuel López Obrador guy (AMLO) ever manage to
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. As an outsider who follows Mexico and Mexican news closely, I’ve noticed a couple of recent articles that should be worrying the Mexican middle class. First, according to his column in Pulse News Mexico, Ricardo Castillo has noted that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is making investors nervous. Castillo wrote: “Fear does not ride on
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Over the course of the last few weeks, I’ve heard from many of my Mexican friends about the surging violence south of the U.S. border. It is no longer a case of cartel versus cartel. Instead, the murders have spilled into urban areas, and the Mexican people are scared. I saw this post from Mamela Fiallo Flor in
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Over the course of the last six months, I’ve reported that many of my friends in Mexico have been shocked by their country’s newly founded tolerance of illegal immigration. This goes against the very grain of what I knew of Mexico to be years ago. The Mexico that I remember was brutal — and I mean
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By SILVIO CANTO JR. The Democrats in the U.S. Congress have for years repeatedly played the race card on the Republicans (GOP), and now they are at it again.. Basically, it seems, for the Dems, calling the guy on the other side a racist is what you do when you have no more rational arguments. Inner-city schools are a mess,
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Over the last few months, I’ve heard two things consistently from Mexican friends in the United States: First, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is currently benefitting from a nice honeymoon with the Mexican people, and second, sooner or later, he is going to be tested when the economy starts to slow down. The point is that
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