Stories by Roberto Lovato
Roberto Lovato is a New York-based writer with New America Media. Read more of his work at Of América.
Posted on Nov 1, 2011, Source: Of America
In addition to powering and pushing the work of groups fighting the bank fees, the #Occupy movement is also nourishing the work planned or envisioned by other groups.
Posted on Oct 6, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The furious waves of marchers in yesterday’s Occupy Wall Street mobilization have cracked the dark marble and teflon walls protecting the dictator of our age: Big Corporations.
Posted on Apr 1, 2011, Source: ColorLines
For author Lovato el Salvador feels like 1980, the year its civil war started, after U.S.-trained death squads murdered Monsenor Oscar Arnulfo Romero.
Posted on Mar 22, 2011, Source: New America Media
Hours before President Obama was set to land in their country, Salvadorans were listening and reading -- and weighing – each statement he made before his historic arrival.
Posted on Dec 3, 2010, Source: ColorLines
The line separating paradise and hell in Cancun is blurry -- the migrant workers who keep the tourism industry often face bleak, lonely fates.
Posted on Jul 29, 2010, Source: AlterNet
If Obama is to truly end the war on immigrants, his immigration policies must match the spirit of his commitment to immigrants and immigration reform.
Posted on Apr 22, 2010, Source: New America Media
"Without equilibrium between people, there will be no equilibrium between humans and nature."
Posted on Oct 14, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Latinos across America are intensely concerned about CNN's hypocrisy: Broadcasting Dobbs' anti-immigrant extremism while running a Latinos in America special series.
Posted on Sep 21, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Dobbs is waving the First Amendment flag to try and distract from his long history of anti-immigrant views.
Posted on Sep 16, 2009, Source: AlterNet
As studies document the link between anti-immigrant hate speech and violence against Latinos, Dobbs continues to fan the flames.
Posted on Jul 29, 2009, Source: AlterNet
While Obama's racial diplomacy with Skip Gates is making the headlines, rights groups say that he has expanded Bush's racist immigration policies.
Posted on Jul 10, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Throughout the Americas, there exists a powerful political tradition in which esperanza (hope) is defined by the fight against U.S. domination.
Posted on Jun 29, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Failure to take actions that send a clear message of condemnation will be devastating to the still-fragile U.S. image in Latin America.
Posted on May 28, 2009, Source: Huffington Post
Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation process will be a chance to see if the GOP is ready say sorry for its wrongdoings perpetrated in the Bush era.
Posted on Mar 18, 2009, Source: New America Media
Mauricio Funes, the first leftist elected president El Salvador, discusses his hope for strong ties with the U.S. and key issues his country faces.
Posted on Mar 15, 2009, Source: New America Media
Big media power presents a major obstacle to the Salvadorean left, but the digital age has also provided them with new means to fight back.
Posted on Mar 14, 2009, Source: New America Media
Bush-era policies like CAFTA and the Iraq War have turned Salvadorans against the U.S. and its allies in the ARENA government.
Posted on Mar 3, 2009, Source: New America Media
The boycott comes at the worst possible time for a planet facing rapidly increasing levels of recession-inspired racism, xenophobia and hatred.
Posted on Feb 27, 2009, Source: New America Media
Across the world, people are judging the U.S. -- and Obama -- on how we treat our detainees.
Posted on Feb 16, 2009, Source: Of América
Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano’s version of “hope†and “change†on immigration means more of the same.
Posted on Feb 3, 2009, Source: New America Media
Calls for major restructuring of the immigration detention system may soon become unavoidable.
Posted on Jan 22, 2009, Source: New America Media
Smart immigration reform is a moral, as well as a legal imperative.
Posted on Dec 6, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The appointment of Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva to the Department of the Interior would bring much-needed political balance to the Obama cabinet.
Posted on Dec 3, 2008, Source: New America Media
Recent talk about immigration issues coming from Washington inspires some hope, some fear and reveals the need for clarity on the issue.
Posted on Sep 29, 2008, Source: New America Media
The government may be preparing for another conflict -- a domestic war on the poor and middle class.
Posted on Sep 23, 2008, Source: New America Media
Thousands of people of Mexican descent were subjected to unmeetable demands to prove that they are citizens of the US before getting a passport.
Posted on Sep 11, 2008, Source: New America Media
Where are the charges of divided loyalties when Sarah Palin rejected the United States?
Posted on Aug 27, 2008, Source: New America Media
America's brutal immigration detention network is getting little attention from Democratic reformers and their institutional allies in Denver.
Posted on Jul 19, 2008, Source: Of America
As Obama prepares for his world tour, we must prepare to ask him the tough questions about imperialism and the U.S. global military machine.
Posted on Jul 10, 2008, Source: TheNation.com and Of America
Obama votes like a Republican on FISA and backs off from Iraq, keeping corporate America happy.
Posted on Jun 14, 2008, Source: New America Media
The best analysis of the differences in the candidates' positions comes from the Spanish-language press.
Posted on May 15, 2008, Source: The Nation
Latinos' subordinate status in Georgia strongly resembles that of African-Americans who lived under Jim Crow.
Posted on May 2, 2008, Source: Of América
In hundreds of cities across America, May Day marches showed the powerful resistance to Bush's harsh immigration policies.
Posted on Apr 14, 2008, Source: Public Eye
A new kind of protracted domestic war against a new kind of domestic enemy is underway -- undocumented immigrants.
Posted on Mar 22, 2008, Source: New America Media
While Obama raises the bar for racial understanding, the Democratic Leadership Council leverages white voter fear to counter America's new landscape.
Posted on Feb 9, 2008, Source: New America Media
A careful look at Super Tuesday's Latino vote shows it was not monolithic -- it was segmented across regional and other demographic lines.
Posted on Jan 18, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The actions of three key Latino government officials may determine whether the torture tape investigation reaches the White House.
Posted on Jan 4, 2008, Source: New America Media
Is color blindness the model we want for diversity?
Posted on Dec 21, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Anti-immigrant leader Tancredo leaves the 2008 election with more power than when he started.
Posted on Oct 15, 2007, Source: The Nation
Latino voters will go to the polls in 2008 with a hemispheric vision, a new sense of power and concern about Iraq, immigration and the environment.
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