Full Coverage: Voto Latino
Latinos, the nation’s fastest growing electorate, are poised to make their biggest impact yet on the 2016 presidential election. Here’s our coverage on their role in the race to the White House.
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Rafael Rivera left Puerto Rico for central Florida late last year, fed up with the island’s escalating debt crisis and dwindling sales at his cellphone shop.
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Last summer, Univision went to war with Donald Trump after he called Mexicans drug dealers and rapists -- a move typical of the network that views itself not just as a media company but as an advocate and defender of the Latino community.
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Once an afterthought, Latino voters have moved to the center of the 2016 presidential campaign, the object of early and unprecedented courtship by candidates on both sides.
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Esteban Torres was 3 years old when his father was sent back to Mexico by U.S. immigration authorities.
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The Latino electorate is bigger and better educated than ever before, according to a new report by Pew Research Center.
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For the longest time, life was comfortably familiar in this amiable farm community.
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The nation’s growing Latino electorate long has been described as a “sleeping giant,” with lots of potential to impact elections, but a bad track record of turning out to vote.
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Lorella Praeli has one of the most important jobs on Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign — even though she’s never voted in an election.
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When he’s not at school, 18-year-old Pedro Duran often can be found dialing voters from the threadbare Las Vegas campaign headquarters of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
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A few weeks after Donald Trump launched his campaign for the presidency, a friend asked Ricardo Aca a question: “How would you feel about making a short documentary and risking your job?”
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By all accounts, the Central Valley is a place where Latino candidates should win elections.
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New research out Friday shows that Republicans will need a larger slice of Latino voters than previously thought if they hope to win the White House in 2016, creating an even tougher hurdle for the eventual nominee.
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Illegal immigration is always a sizzling topic on Tony Beam’s conservative call-in radio show in this small Bible Belt city.
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Bernie Sanders took his Democratic presidential campaign to the racially diverse outskirts of Las Vegas on Sunday, telling a large crowd gathered at a soccer stadium about the struggles of his immigrant father and pledging to dismantle what he termed “the excessively wasteful $18-million deportation regime.”
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Latino organizers sensed an opportunity when they heard Donald Trump was bringing his presidential campaign to Marshalltown, a small farm city that is home to an increasing number of Latino immigrants and their children.
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Julian Castro, a rising star in the Democratic Party, was stumping for Hillary Clinton in southeastern Iowa on Sunday when a union leader extended a hand and a question in Spanish.
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In a Spanish-language radio ad that began airing in Nevada last week, a smooth-voiced announcer introduced a presidential candidate many listeners probably hadn’t heard of.
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At a recent anti-immigrant rally in the Inland Empire, where activists stood on a street corner chanting, “Help America, not illegals,” several sported the same white T-shirt.
