Stories by Roberto Lovato
Roberto Lovato, a frequent Nation contributor, is a New York-based writer with New America Media.
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 Jun 29, 2009
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 May 28, 2009
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 18, 2009
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 15, 2009
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 14, 2009
The boycott comes at the worst possible time for a planet facing rapidly increasing levels of recession-inspired racism, xenophobia and hatred.
Posted on Mar 3, 2009
Across the world, people are judging the U.S. -- and Obama -- on how we treat our detainees.
Posted on Feb 27, 2009
Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano’s version of “hope” and “change” on immigration means more of the same.
Posted on Feb 16, 2009
Calls for major restructuring of the immigration detention system may soon become unavoidable.
Posted on Feb 3, 2009
Smart immigration reform is a moral, as well as a legal imperative.
Posted on Jan 22, 2009
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 6, 2008
Recent talk about immigration issues coming from Washington inspires some hope, some fear and reveals the need for clarity on the issue.
Posted on Dec 3, 2008
The government may be preparing for another conflict -- a domestic war on the poor and middle class.
Posted on Sep 29, 2008
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 23, 2008
Where are the charges of divided loyalties when Sarah Palin rejected the United States?
Posted on Sep 11, 2008
America's brutal immigration detention network is getting little attention from Democratic reformers and their institutional allies in Denver.
Posted on Aug 27, 2008
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 19, 2008
Obama votes like a Republican on FISA and backs off from Iraq, keeping corporate America happy.
Posted on Jul 10, 2008
The best analysis of the differences in the candidates' positions comes from the Spanish-language press.
Posted on Jun 14, 2008
Latinos' subordinate status in Georgia strongly resembles that of African-Americans who lived under Jim Crow.
Posted on May 15, 2008
In hundreds of cities across America, May Day marches showed the powerful resistance to Bush's harsh immigration policies.
Posted on May 2, 2008
A new kind of protracted domestic war against a new kind of domestic enemy is underway -- undocumented immigrants.
Posted on Apr 14, 2008
While Obama raises the bar for racial understanding, the Democratic Leadership Council leverages white voter fear to counter America's new landscape.
Posted on Mar 22, 2008
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 Feb 9, 2008
The actions of three key Latino government officials may determine whether the torture tape investigation reaches the White House.
Posted on Jan 18, 2008
Is color blindness the model we want for diversity?
Posted on Jan 4, 2008
Anti-immigrant leader Tancredo leaves the 2008 election with more power than when he started.
Posted on Dec 21, 2007
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.
Posted on Oct 15, 2007
It's not just that President Evo Morales is indigenous, but that he refuses to sell out the rights of indigenous people.
Posted on Oct 3, 2007
As they pack into theaters to watch
Resident Evil: Extinction this weekend, moviegoers may first want to play one of the many blockbuster video games on which the film is based, which display nakedly racist overtones.
Posted on Sep 22, 2007
Univision's presidential candidates debate stressed that Latino voters and their media have the power to swing things in '08.
Posted on Sep 11, 2007
Gonzales loved to tell the story of his rise out of poverty -- a Latino version of the American dream. But it is that same dream that he and his backers helped destroy for many Americans.
Posted on Sep 4, 2007
El Cantante is supposed to be about salsa legend Hector Lavoe, but the movie dotes on Jennifer Lopez, who seems totally out of touch with Latin culture, and says little about the Puerto Rican community that inspired the music.
Posted on Aug 9, 2007
During the immigrant rights marches last week, plots to attack immigrants with grenades and semi-automatic weapons were uncovered in Alabama, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
Posted on May 10, 2007
Will Latinos keep turning away from the Right, furthering the momentum witnessed in last year's massive marches and during the off-year elections?
Posted on Apr 3, 2007
Alberto Gonzales, the first Latino Attorney General in U.S. history, was once endorsed by leading Latino organizations. Those same organizations now remain silent in the midst of the U.S. attorney scandal.
Posted on Mar 30, 2007
Battles between the city's black and Latino gangs are the outcome of a dismal racial and economic situation.
Posted on Mar 19, 2007
The war on terror is morphing into a war on immigration, with immigrants finding themselves on both sides of the conflict.
Posted on Jan 30, 2007
The new movie
Apocalypto should have left the Maya alone and instead looked for apocalyptic violence in the off-screen history of the Catholic-mestizo families of the Americas.
Posted on Dec 16, 2006
This election showed Republicans' staunch anti-immigration stance is finally coming back to haunt them.
Posted on Nov 16, 2006
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