By SILVIO CANTO, JR. As you have probably heard, Quaker Oats has decided that white liberals just couldn’t take all of that white privilege and systematic racism anymore on their pancakes. Consequently, after 1889 years of service, the company has relegated Poor Old Aunt Jemima – along with Uncle Ben — to the politically incorrect backwaters of commercial extinction. But
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. The year 2020 marks the fifth Father’s Day since my dad passed away in late 2015. It’s my day to remember a great man who taught me about life and where we came from. He also taught me how treat women and behave properly at work, at home or the baseball field. My father was quiet, a
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Down in Mexico, the government is talking about reopening the economy. But not so fast in Cancun. According to Mexican news reports, Cancun just isn´t ready for its previously projected June 1 reopening. One English-language daily reported: “Quintana Roo Tourism Secretary Marisol Vanegas Pérez burst a few bubbles when she said that ‘it’s not true that
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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 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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