Author Archive: Muñoz
Bernie Drop Out Now

Dear Bernie: Drop Out In the times of Covid-19, and in the face of Joe Biden’s overwhelming lead, you’re still running for the Democratic nomination and pushing for 30 more primaries to be held. You keep running, despite the vanishingly…
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Latinos in Popular Films Almost Nonexistent

It is no surprise that you rarely see Latinos in Hollywood movies. Hollywood has that door still tightly shut, save for stereotypical depictions and, every once in a while, an original character in an original story. The 2019 study “Latinos in Film:…
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Kill the story about the dead: Puerto Rico Governor

Like father, like son. Ricardo Rosselló is the son of Puerto Rico’s former Gov. Pedro Rosselló, whose administration resulted in the imprisonment of 40 top level advisors and cabinet members in the 1990s for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars….
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Hurricane Rossello Hit Puerto Rico Before Hurricane Maria

Hurricane Corruption joined forces with Hurricane María in Puerto Rico on Sept. 20. All the advance preparation that a category hurricane 5 requires was lacking in direct proportion to the extreme danger it ultimately unleashed. It was as if an…
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Another Hurricane But Who Cares About Caribbean?

This morning I called family and friends in Puerto Rico, all of whom are to varying degrees frantic and worried about Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 hurricane with winds at 180 mph and gusts at never-behind seen 215 mph. The…
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UMass Boston Creates Fake News

By NATALIA MUÑOZ Monday, May 15, 2017 President Trump isn’t the only one who makes up stories. So did the University of Massachusetts Boston when Chancellor J. Keith Motley sent a memo extolling the virtues of speakers and honorees for…
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Liberals: Don’t Blow It Again

President Donald Trump and his key advisers are incompetent, mean-spirited, elite tontos who fooled 63 million voters into believing that he cares about the working Joe. Meanwhile, 66 million other voters have been organizing marches across the land in reaction…
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Maddow’s Awkward Moment

For the most part, the national media can’t quite tell the truth about the liar in chief. There are exceptions. On MSNBC, Lawrence O’Donnell calls 45 a liar often. He repeats the lies because the job of a journalist is…
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Sen. Stan Rosenberg’s $45,000 Unearned Pay Raise

State Sen. President Stan Rosenberg blurred the lines between himself and Wall Street’s greed when he sought a jaw-dropping $45,000 pay raise last month, from $97,547 to $142,547. here others were organizing strategies and events to push back against the…
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