opinion

  • Michael Tyree’s Legacy… What will that be?

    Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR       Recently, the three corrections officers who beat Michael Tyree to death (August 26, 2015) were found guilty of second-degree murder. Sentencing will be scheduled. Tyree was in a jail cell in protective custody because of his mental health issues. This incident exposed...
  • Nuestra misión: salvar vidas

    Elsa Mora La Red Hispana Cuando escuché a Mark Zuckerberg, el fundador de Facebook, durante la reciente ceremonia de graduación de los estudiantes egresados de la prestigiosa Universidad de Harvard, sus palabras me conmovieron, y espero hayan tenido el mismo efecto en millones de jóvenes de mi generación del...
  • During 15 minutes, What would you say to President Trump?

    Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR If President Trump agreed to listen to you without interruption for 15 minutes, what would you say? One individual said, “I would not waste my time because Trump does not listen to anyone like me who would tell him what he does not want to...
  • Why California must defy Trump on immigration

    Editor’s Note: This op-ed first appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle on May 20, 2017 Kevin de León Here’s what we learned about Ruben Navarrette Jr. from his May 16 column: He thinks we shouldn’t protect hardworking undocumented residents from President Trump’s mass-deportation machine because it is like kicking...
  • Una tormenta perfecta

    Por José López Zamorano La Red Hispana La trágica muerte de la joven promesa del béisbol, José Fernández, así como de dos de sus amigos, Eduardo Rivero y Emilio Jesús Macías, es un triste recordatorio de las innumerables vidas que se pierden en el mar por ignorar las reglas...
  • WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A DEMOCRAT TODAY

    Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR The Trump Administration’s proposed 2018 budget cuts cripple many programs which take care of people while enabling the top 1% and corporations to continue to concentrate wealth in their ‘silos’. This opinion piece is fashioned after the speech delivered by former VP Joe Biden to...
  • Muéstrame tu humanidad

    Por José López Zamorano La Red Hispana La promulgación de la polémica legislación de SB4 de Texas, firmada por el gobernador Gregg Abbott a través de Facebook, donde no tuvo que responder preguntas de la prensa incómoda, detonó un tsunami de críticas no sólo de grupos de defensa de...
  • THE PRESIDENT MUST NOT ‘BE ABOVE THE LAW’

    Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR America has to thank Donald J. Trump for exposing a serious governance flaw which needs to be immediately addressed by the U.S. Congress and all political parties. That flaw is that currently, certain legal interpretations are essentially, “whatever the President does is legal.” This interpretation...
  • El populismo herido

    Por José López Zamorano La Red Hispana No es la primera vez que los ojos del mundo han estado volcados en Francia, el país que legó a la humanidad su célebre Declaración de los Derechos del Hombre y de los ciudadanos en 1789 y cuyo lema revolucionario de “libertad,...
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