Gabriel Lerner

Bajo la creencia de que para ganarle a Barack Obama en las elecciones presidenciales de noviembre Mitt Romney necesita, a fuerza, el apoyo de un importante sector de los votantes latinos (cualquier cosa que se acerque al 34 por ciento que recibio John McCain en 2008...

Believing that to win in November, Mitt Romney needs the support of a sizable amount of Latino voters (anything close to the 34% John McCain got in 2008 is a defeat; anything around the 41% who voted for George W. Bush in 2004 is a victory), Republicans continued to intensify...

Hace un par de semanas, publicamos que el senador junior por Florida, el republicano Marco Rubio, estaba anunciando que en el futuro iría a presentar un proyecto de ley según el modelo del DREAM Act - la propuesta que en los últimos años circula en Washington y que...

La gente - quienes vivimos por un lapso en este planeta, miramos extasiados nuestro camino y registramos nuestras vidas - la gente tiene una manera peculiar de absorber lo que sucede en su derredor. Por ejemplo, se enajena con noticias inmediatas, bombásticas o de dudosa veracidad, o fugaces o todo...

It was Cinco de Mayo. People of Mexican descent all across the United States were supposed to celebrate the 1862 Mexican victory over a large, invading French army in Puebla, Mexico. This was, as Roberto Lovato described it, the "victory of the badly-equipped, but inspired Mexican guerrilla army...

El nacimiento de HuffPost Voces, sucesor de AOL Latino y complemento de HuffPost Latino Voices (en inglés), tiene el potencial de ser un parteaguas en la historia del periodismo en español en Estados Unidos.

Constituye un reconocimiento de que los Latinos en nuestro país, los que hablan el idioma de...

Años atrás me invitaron a un debate en Los Angeles sobre las relaciones entre los judíos y los latinos. Aproveché la ocasión para criticar a algunos de los participantes que idealizaban las relaciones entre ambos grupos. Para muchos, dije en ese momento, la única vez que hablan con un latino...

Years ago, I was invited to a debate in Los Angeles about relations between Jews and Latinos. At the time, I lashed out at some of the participants who were idealizing the relationship between the two groups. For many, I said, the only time they talk to a Latino is...

The federal DREAM Act has not been debated in Congress for years. This proposed law, which would permit many undocumented students and soldiers to apply for legal status under certain conditions, does not exist yet. On a state level, it was recently approved in New York, but not...

Against all odds, even while continuing to fight for recognition, Latinos are finding a way to remain in the mainstream.

Maybe that's the power of numbers. Yes, the Hispanic population is the largest minority group in the country, well over 50 million. Yes, between 2000 and 2010, "the...

It is natural for parents to daydream about their children's future and to worry about the things which may cause misery or harm to them. In many Hispanic families -- which tend to be socially conservative -- a child being gay is often seen in a negative light,...

The events unfolding this week and announced for the next one remind us once again that Latinos in the United States are an intrinsic part of the population, and as such, are as interested and invested as every other American in the state of our union. When unemployment and foreclosure...

In a series of statements and interviews, the main Republican presidential candidates distanced themselves even further from Latino voters this week while they campaigned for the 23 delegates up for grabs in Sunday's primary election in Puerto Rico.

Republican candidates have opposed comprehensive immigration reform, rejected the DREAM Act (federal...

Once upon a time, in what seems now to have been many, many Republican presidential debates ago, Florida GOP Senator Marco Rubio was king of the hill.

Not one, but two, of the final four presidential hopefuls, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney " winked, hissed, and whispered...

Super Tuesday will likely be an extremely important day for the GOP presidential candidates, with 410 delegates -- or 18% of the total GOP delegates-- up for grabs. Of course, a big win could assist Mitt Romney to win the nomination and break the back of either Rick Santorum or...

Many Latinos are critical of President Barack Obama's occasional championing of undocumented immigrant deportation, believing that Obama has broken his campaign promise to pass immigration reform in his first year in office. And this perception may hinder the president's plans to receive -- as he...

Last week we were shocked by the tragic massacre at Chardon High School near Cleveland, Ohio. Three students were killed and two wounded when a 17-year-old student opened fire.

Each time a tragic incident involving schools, guns, children and victims reaches the front page, a chorus of soul-searching follows...

Following the hour-long interview from the White House granted last September to The Huffington Post , MSN Latino and Yahoo en Español, President Obama has recently stepped up his efforts to connect with the Hispanic community, granting more interviews and answering Latino voters’ questions.

The Obama campaign’s latest...

Almost a week after they were scheduled to be evicted forcibly from their home, the De Los Santos family is still living in the Riverside house they bought in 2002 -- and then re-occupied last December -- surrounded by a small group of sympathizers from groups like Occupy LA and...

LOS ANGELES -- Arturo De Los Santos and his wife Magdalena have been fighting to keep the home in Riverside, California, where they raised their four children and on which they have pinned their hopes and dreams.

Barring a last-minute miracle, the sheriff is set to evict them Tuesday morning....