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Chavez Suffers Loss, But Still Wields Petroleum Power - $34 Billion From The United States Alone

By Hector Barajas | 07/07/08

After suffering a humiliating defeat with the recent rescue of 15 hostages in the hands of FARC guerrillas, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez has now declared a new policy to expel banks and other businesses from European countries that apply rules to deport illegal immigrants.  As the European Union tries to set new guidelines to standardize the deportation process, Chavez has threatened to cut off oil and block investments from countries... read more »

Democrats Control Both Houses of the State Legislature, But They Can Not Control Expenditures

By Hector Barajas | 06/26/08

Missing in Speaker Emeritus Núñez' comments, and other Democrat rhetoric and budget speeches for that matter, is the fact that for the past 12 years Democrats have controlled both houses of the state legislature.  They have been in complete control of setting the legislative agenda and appointing the membership of every legislative committee, including those that deal with health care, transportation, education, aging, public safety,... read more »

The Latino Vote - Presidential Elections

By Hector Barajas | 06/26/08

In the past several presidential elections, Republicans have made significant inroads with the Latino community and it seems to be paying off.  1976: Gerald Ford received 15% of the Latino vote1980: Ronald Reagan received 30% of the Latino vote1988: Ronald Reagan received 37% of the Latino vote1992: George H. Bush received 39% of the Latino vote1996: Bob Dole received 21% of the Latino vote2000: George W. Bush received 35% of the Latino... read more »

Putting Obama In An Immigration Bind

By Hector Barajas | 06/11/08

Earlier this year, Democratic Senator Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi noted that because of their busy congressional schedule and the November election, congress would not be able to take up the immigration reform issue. (Univision)  In 2007, aside from the minimum wage issue congress spent a majority of their time naming and remaining buildings, post offices, and other such structures -not very comforting for the millions of illegal... read more »

Moving Beyond Proposition 187

By Hector Barajas | 06/09/08

In the past three presidential elections political pundits and reporters questioned whether or not this year the Republican Party can finally move past the negative labels placed upon them during the Proposition 187 debates.  While immigration reform will be an important issue in this election, Democrats will need to move beyond their comfort zone of demonizing Republicans, because McCain offers Latinos a different type of candidate. As a... read more »

Latino Voters Continues To Reject Obama

By Hector Barajas | 06/05/08

While Barack Obama transitions as the Democratic frontrunner to the presumptive nominee, Obama's greatest challenge will be trying to mobilize and galvanize the Latino vote.   This past Sunday, as Puertoricanos overwhelmingly cast their vote for Hillary Clinton in their Democratic presidential primary, the exit polls provided some troubling news for the Obama campaign. In Sunday's election, Clinton won every single demographic group,... read more »

Democratic Officials: "Cut Spending"

By Hector Barajas | 06/03/08

As Democrats fall short on funds for their Democratic National Convention, rather than make up the difference by raising fees on themselves and their guests, the New York Post is reporting that DNC officials have noted, ""they'll just have to cut spending."  Stop spending money you don't have.  What a novel idea.  "To meet contractual obligations, the Dems must have $40 million, cash on hand, by June 10 - and they're still $15... read more »

OBAMA CONTINUES HIS TALL TALES

By Hector Barajas | 05/29/08

There he goes again.  Obama continues his tall tales.   Is Obama feeling insecure on his ability to reach voters or is he just trying to pad his resume?  On Memorial Day Obama Claimed:"I had an uncle who was one of the -- who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps.  And the story in our family was is that when he came home, he just went up into the attic and he... read more »

Obama's Cuba Policy Is Not Based On "Libertad" It Is Based On "Mentiras"

By Hector Barajas | 05/27/08

Senator Barack Obama noted this past weekend that he would meet with Cuban leader Raul Castro "only when we have an opportunity to advance the interests of the United States and to advance the cause of Freedom for the Cuban people."  In addition, Obama said "he would maintain the existing trade embargo to use as leverage for winning Democratic change in the Communist island nation."  (Christopher Wills, "Obama Says His Cuba Policy Is... read more »

Fabian Gone Wild - Plays The Race Card

By Hector Barajas | 05/23/08

As many of you have already read, this week's episode of the Spanish language program of Voz y Voto was a real eye opener. You can see a portion of the video here: ABC News In the interview, Fabian Núñez noted that those who questioned his expenses and tried to make it an issue in the Prop 93 campaign are "anti-Latino groups who don't like Latinos and sought to utilize this as a weapon to stir up the anti-Mexican, anti-Latino rhetoric."... read more »