Paper No. 13: The Missing Latino Voice (December 4, 2018) Essay

The United States is the second largest Spanish-speaking country in the world, in terms of population. America is constantly told that the Latino vote is rising and yet it bubbles up but never asserts itself. Latinos are present in America, but Latino voices are muted on the national dialog. The reason for this is that Latinos are not one, but several cultural and political identities each pulling in different directions.