Latino Issues, A Conservative Blog

A site I like to check once in a while is Honduras This Week . While it tends to be a bit left-leaning, I have noticed a great improvement in their stories over the last year. Here are a couple that are of interest, considering what has been happening in the news, and give you a good inside-look at whats happening in Honduras. "A historic occasion." That is how CAFTA negotiators Regina Vargo and Melvin Redondo chose to describe the coming into force of the US-Central American Free Trade Agreement on April 1st.They were two of the speakers at a CAFTA forum organized last Monday by the newspaper El Heraldo and the US Embassy. By Anette Emanuelsson Since I have worked a lot with short term missions, I thought this was interesting . The culture of running short-term missions to under-privileged countries is fast becoming a phenomenon. Estimates suggest that between one and four million people per year - ...

Today is the first time I read about this story . Anyone else know more? I searched BabaluBlog , but could not find a reference--did I miss something? These are American citizens, which makes me wonder what is the American interest section doing about it? Havana, Cuba, April 7, 2006 (AFP) - This Thursday Cuba accused the Mexican authorities in Quintana Roo of being involved in an aborted human trafficking operation, which left one dead person and another wounded. This reaffirms the reports that there is a complex network that uses Mexico as an illegal bridge to the US. Mexican and Cuban media "have reported the growing human trafficking of Cubans through Cancun, Isla Mujeres, and other places in Quintana Roo to the US," stated an official document released on Thursday by the newspaper "Granna." In that operation, "Cuban-origin 'balseros,' Mexican fishermen, authorities from that Mexican state, and people from the anti-Cuban mafia living there and that h...

Hugh Hewitt says this about the left, in response to a Washington Post article : The left has become disfigured because the excess that dominates the lefty blogs is absorbed by rank-and-file activists and encouraged by the Democratic Party leadership, which embraces, posts at and praises the blogs that are among the angriest and most vulgar/profane/hate-filled. The collapse of the left's ability to engage in politics will continue and in fact accelerate unless and until the leaders of the Democratic Party rebuke the party's activist base and its spokesmen, which is unlikely to happen anytime soon. The best thing the GOP has going for it in November, 2006 and in the presidential campaign to follow is the fury of the unhinged left. The vast majority of Americans reject politics of this sort, but there's no hiding what the left has become or the Democrats' endorsement of it. Irrational. Bullies . It's to bad, because it takes away from what could and should be hea...

I'm at the in-laws, so I am really going to try to stay away from the blog today. For all the immigration junkies, here is a round up of links provided by Michelle Malkin . Check out blog and great posts on what is going on around the world this Easter weekend. Patterico takes on an open borders propagandist at the Los Angeles Times. Tim Graham takes on the open borders coverage at the Washington Post. Ben Johnson decodes the MSM's immigration doublespeak . The New York Times recycles old news to decry law enforcement officials trying to--gasp!--enforce immigration laws. John O'Sullivan examines "No Illegal Alien Left Behind" politics. I'v been reading up on the Hilton and the Fran O'Brien's story --if you haven't, you must read all about it. Bad PR can come in an instant in today's blogosphere. There is a lesson for the world's corporations in this. Have a blessed weekend.

Update 2: Email response from DarkSyde: I didn't post this out of fairness. I may next time you screw up though if my interest hasn't faded and I'm already losing interest: And there will be no link included to your blog in that event, simply a brutal takedown with links and references with you playing leading man. On short, you're quite simply as wrong as you can be. I've sent a total of two emails and both were to conservative bloggers whose past entries indicated to me they held reasonable views. You were one of them. Lesson 1: Read and know the political perspective and if possible, party affiliation, of the bloggers you are trying to reach How to do it: Um, reading the bloggers you are going to be requesting support from my be helpful.. Lesson 2: Don't sterotype and don't assume. Just because I am of Latino heritage, does not mean I support open borders, illegal immigration, or anything liberal or left-wing for that matter. I would...

You must read La Ventanita's essay , responding to recent criticism of Val Prieto from BabaluBlog.com . "The world is actually bigger than Cuba and South Florida. Hard to believe, I know, but not everyone...cares about the stuff you lost in 1959. Or 1968. Or whenever. Yes, it's sad. But most people in the world just...don't care." That was one of the nation's 25 most influential Hispanics by Time magazine speaking to a fellow Cuban blogger who chooses to blog about his passion speaking against Fidel Castro and daily trying to put the truth about the real Cuba out there ; debunking all those nice, flowery, nostalgic NYT Cuba and Fidel Castro (and oh yes, Che Guevara too) stories. Setting the record straight; disseminating truth .

I married an American, but I have to say--my wife cooks a mean Cuban meal! Check out this one. I'm just following Ziva's example over at BabaluBlog . The picadillo with plenty of olives and potatoes, thinly sliced fried ripe plantain--just like my Abuela makes them, and rice and black beans. I do my rice brown, to make it a bit healthier. I got an awesome wife!