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Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden during a virtual panel event compared the Latino community as “an incredibly diverse community” unlike the African American community who lacks diversity of thought.   During a panel interview at a joint conference of National Black and Latino journalists that aired Thursday morning, Biden was asked if he would restore the […]

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders stood out during the CNN debate by pushing their individual and very progressive policies, but former HUD Secretary Julian Castro claiming victory, even though he was not on the debate stage.

The 2020 Democratic presidential primary election is in full swing, as the political and media world will descend on Miami to watch the first two televised debates. President Trump strategically chose to hold is reelection campaign kickoff in Orlando, and Democrats have chosen to kick off their primary season in Hispanic-heavy Miami-Dade County. Once again, […]

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus, which is chaired by Rep. Joaquin Castro and whose membership consists of only Democrats, lists 36 members, including Senators Robert Menendez and Catherine Cortez- Masto.

One of financial requirements that members of congress and the President of the United States must fulfill, is  having the disclosure how many assets they have, and how much each of those assets is worth.

With his twin brother Julian on the verge of announcing a presidential campaign run  in 2020, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D) is also climbing the political rungs of success. Castro has announced that he will replace Rep. Lujan-Grisham as head the Hispanic Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Every election cycle there are usually a few firsts that are accomplished when newly-elected members of the U.S. Congress are sworn in.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump believes that there is a remote possibility that Hispanics will back his candidacy for president. (Sarcasm) I'm winning with Hispanics. I keep telling everybody, I'm going to win with the Hispanics. I have thousands of Hispanics working for me all over. They are unbelievable people, unbelievable workers. I love them

Actress and immigration reform activist Eva Longoria appears to support a sort of Hispanic affirmative action movement with the Hollywood community. The Mexican-American actress has stated that "We (Hispanics) are about 16 percent of the population, but we're only 7 percent in films and television," adding that Hispanics should not just aspire to be actors, […]

Jeb Bush broke out the Spanish again. This time during an interview with MSNBC. In the interview Bush said: “I was hurt hearing somebody speaking in such a vulgar fashion. This makes solving this problem much more difficult. When we have politicians like that we cannot progress. In a political sense it was bad, and […]

  Comedian George Lopez, who is Mexican-American, performed his comedy show  this past  Saturday night in Phoenix, Arizona, leading  "the audience at the Phoenix Celebrity Theatre in a profanity-laced chat against" Donald Trump. “This country is better with Latinos in it,” Lopez said before getting the crowd to repeatedly yell, “Donald Trump! F**k that p**o!” […]

Rapper Pitbull, or "Mr.  Worldwide" as he is known, took the stage to accept an award at the Premios Juventud 2015 awards, and used the opportunity to delivered a warning to Republican presidential candidates, Donald Trump. Pitbull called out Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, and Hillary Clinton to bolster their respective presidential campaigns because Trump cannot […]

Democrat long shot presidential candidate and former Maryland governor, Martin Omally has come out defending the controversial status of a "sanctuary city". He did so in a statement on Friday, in Spanish. H/T: Daily Caller “It’s lamentable that the senseless and tragic act of violence that occurred in San Francisco is prompting a rush to judgment and finger pointing: […]

By JAVIER MANJARRES You really can't make this up. Fox Latino, the news group that brought us the term "Afro-Latinos" is reporting that Phoenix businessman Fred DuVal, a Democrat, who just happens to be running for Governor in Arizona, "browned up" a photo of himself in an attempt to appeal to those "brown people" commonly […]

By JAVIER MANJARRES Fox Latino has coined a new term for Hispanics who happened to have a darker complexion than the other "white Hispanics" and "brown people." The new term is "Afro-Latino," and  I am utterly disappointed in myself for coming up with this term. In the Shark Tank post, "The Hispanic Color Wheel, From […]

By JAVIER MANJARRES The FBI has confirmed that former U.S. Marine Armando Torres was kidnapped at gunpoint as first reported here. Torres,his father, and another family member, were taken from the fathers home after the Marine decided to cross the southern border to visit his father who resides in Mexico. Unfortunately, one of the latest […]

By JAVIER MANJARRES Ay Caramba! Former Mexican President Vicente Fox has teamed up with a former Microsoft manager, and have "unveiled a plan" to set up a "legal pot trade" between the U.S. and Mexico. The ex-Microsoft manger is Jamen Shively, whose Diego Pellicer, Inc., will be the first company and name brand sold in […]

BY: JORGE BONILLA A recent Pew study finds that a majority of Americans support the legalization of marijuana, along with a majority of Hispanics. National support for legalization now stands at 52-45, while a simple majority of Hispanics support at 51%. The Pew study found that from 2006, the percentage of individuals that deemed marijuana […]

By JAVIER MANJARRES   Honduras- A recent report by the Central American country's non-governmental organizations states that between the years of 2005 and 2012, 2,851 women between the ages of  16 and 30 were murdered. In addition, there report states that 1,118 of Honduras' 2,851 murders took place between the years of 2011 and 2012,. […]

BY; JORGE BONILLA   Javier caught up to former presidential hopeful Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) after his speech at CPAC.  Santorum takes a few minutes to explain why, in his view, Hispanics are a natural fit with the GOP, and how Democrats pander to them. Click to watch. [vsw id="cOmF80ibFQc" source="youtube" width="640" height="480" autoplay="no"]

BY: JORGE BONILLA The Shark Tank is proud to invite you to Hispolitica. Javier envisioned Hispolitica as a place where a legitimate conversation about Hispanics in America can happen...without the narrative filters imposed by mainstream or Hispanic media. Given how badly both major political parties suck at Hispanic engagement, and the fact that immigration will […]