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Gustavo Arellano

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Gustavo Arellano is a wrier in Los Angeles

August 2017

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    double quotation markJoe Arpaio's pardon will delight racists

    Gustavo Arellano
    The Republican party can’t just stand idly by after this. They must stand with Democrats and say enough

December 2015

  • The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe, Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones, How to Be an Alien by George Mikes, The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, Fantastic Night by Stefan Zweig and The Mayor of Castro Street: the Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts

    Best culture 2015
    The best book we've read all year: Guardian writers and readers look back

  • trump

    Gustavo Arellano column
    double quotation markWe Mexicans welcome Muslims as the new Public Enemy Number One

    Gustavo Arellano

August 2015

  • Luggage Babies

    Gustavo Arellano column
    double quotation markSorry, Republicans: I'm an anchor baby, and I'm not going anywhere

    Gustavo Arellano
  • donald trump debate

    Republican debate: Donald Trump still focus of campaign after sprawling fight – as it happened

April 2015

  • rubio cruz

    Gustavo Arellano column
    double quotation markRubio and Cruz as Great Brown Hopes show how little Republicans know about Latinos

    Gustavo Arellano
    Republicans think these guys are their Great Brown Hopes but, to Latinos, they’re just Great Brown Nopes

February 2015

  • latino baby boy

    Gustavo Arellano column
    double quotation markHow undocumented immigrants who can't vote can change the 2016 elections

    Gustavo Arellano
    People who were brought into the US as children and grew up American can’t make their voices heard at the ballot boxes. But they won’t stay silent

December 2014

  • jeb bush cartoon

    Gustavo Arellano column
    double quotation markJeb Bush is not the white knight Latinos have been waiting for. We're sick of the GOP

    Gustavo Arellano
    Gustavo Arellano: There’s no way he can win the 2016 election, because the very base he’s supposed to attract is as tired of political dynasties as we are of the anti-immigration gringo gauntlet

November 2014

  • obama immigration speech pointing

    Gustavo Arellano column
    double quotation markObama should be more like Reagan, grow some cojones and grant a blanket amnesty

    Gustavo Arellano
    Gustavo Arellano: The dirty little secret of the US immigration debate: Latinos love the Gipper and Dubya. If Obama really wanted to ‘know the heart of a stranger’, he’d take a page from the conservative playbook

September 2014

  • latino citizens

    Gustavo Arellano column
    double quotation markRepublicans used California's 'Juan Crow' law as a model for other states. Now it's dead, and so is the far-right

    Gustavo Arellano in Orange County, California
    Gustavo Arellano: Our state led the country with its anti-immigrant policies, which became the conservative movement’s Waterloo with voters

June 2013

  • Southwestern style bowl of green and red chili peppers on a rustic wood background.

    Road trips USA: Texas and New Mexico
    Tex-Mex food for thought with ¡Ask a Mexican!

    ¡Ask a Mexican! your US food and drink questions, and whether it's taquitos, cabrito, mescal or pozole, the answer will be a tasty one, says Gustavo Arellano