by Miguel A. De La Torre | Apr 9, 2007 | Opinion
Just as First World conditions exist among the elite in the Third World, Third World conditions exist in the First World. According to data released from the Internal Revenue Service, the share of U.S. income in 2005 that went to the top 1 percent of Americans...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 26, 2007 | Opinion
Until the 1950s, racial segregation in public schools was the norm throughout the United States. In Topeka, Kan., a black third-grader named Linda Brown had to walk one mile to get to her black elementary school, even though a white elementary school was only seven...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 19, 2007 | Opinion
From Tijuana on the Pacific Ocean to Matamoros on the Gulf of Mexico runs a 1,833-mile border separating the United States from Latin America. Around the halfway point on this border is Ciudad Juárez. Flowing southeastwardly from Ciudad Juárez to Matamoros is the...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 2, 2007 | Opinion
Thinking about the moral ambiguities associated with the activities at Guantanamo, we usually concentrate on how prisoners are treated or the legal procedures employed for processing prisoners. More often than not, our conversations dwell on what is known as...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Dec 28, 2006 | Opinion
“Beside the rivers of the Potomac we sat and wept at the memory of our homeland, leaving our conga drums by the palm trees…. ‘Sing,’ they said, “some Mambo.” How can we sing our rumba in a pagan land? Mi patria, if I forget you, may my...
