Recounts the adventures of Samuel Chamberlain, who joins the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War at the age of 16. He describes his journey from Boston to the war front, detailing encounters ...

We speak to filmmaker Laura Varela about her documentary, "As Long As I Remember: American Veteranos." The stories of three Mexican-American Vietnam veterans and their families take us through a ...

The documentary "The Longoria Affair" tells the story of Mexican-American Felix Longoria, who died while fighting in World War II and his family was denied use of their south Texas town's only ...

Sixty years ago in Three Rivers, Texas, the only funeral home in town refused to hold a wake for Felix Longoria, a decorated Mexican American soldier killed in battle during World War II. Longoria ...

Aguirre, who served on the Orange County bench for 15 years, traveled to Normandy, France, this week for the 75th anniversary of D-day to commemorate Mexican American soldiers and sailors who were ...

Since 2007, Mexico's drug war has resulted in the murder of more than 100,000 of Mexico's citizens and brought an influx of violence and drugs into the United States.

The Mexican American Cultural Center in Austin recently had to expand a screening of the documentary to two rooms because of the large turnout. “We knew that people, especially the young people ...

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Two new works of art — the documentary film Cartel Land and the novel The Cartel — shine a light on the seemingly endless drug war in Mexico. John Powers says both works are bleak, but gripping.