{"id":62081,"date":"2026-10-30T12:24:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T19:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=62081"},"modified":"2026-10-30T13:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:00:03","slug":"fbi-discrimination-taco-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=62081","title":{"rendered":"I asked a young Hispanic Reporter:  &#8220;You ever Heard of the Taco Beat?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_62086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62086\" style=\"width: 433px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-62086\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_1328-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_1328-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_1328-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_1328-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_1328-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_1328-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_1328-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_1328-850x850.jpeg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EL PASO HERALD-POST, OCTOBER 1, 1988<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">BY RAUL HERNANDEZ<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/wyd_pkca1by.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62083 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/wyd_pkca1by-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Business newspaper article\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/wyd_pkca1by-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/wyd_pkca1by-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/wyd_pkca1by-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/wyd_pkca1by-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/wyd_pkca1by-850x567.jpg 850w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/wyd_pkca1by.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cYou ever heard of the Taco Beat?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">I asked a young Hispanic newspaper reporter that question in 2013 at a National Association of Hispanic Journalists gathering in Anaheim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">He looked at me like a dog staring at a TV set.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">Then he shook his head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">We were talking about how journalism was changing. For him, it wasn\u2019t changing fast enough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve made a lot of progress. But we still have a long way to go,&#8221; I told him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">More than three decades earlier, many Hispanic newspaper reporters believed they had been hired only to add a little color to the newsroom. Most of us were relegated to assignments editors thought we were qualified to handle \u2014 the \u201cTaco Beat,\u201d as we called it back then.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-258 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/FBI-IMAGE-GUN-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/FBI-IMAGE-GUN-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/FBI-IMAGE-GUN.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/>That usually meant covering the barrio, translating for reporters who didn\u2019t speak Spanish or being sent across the border to places like Juarez.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">An El Paso Times veteran reporter Diana Valdez Washington found out that Hispanic reporters there were being paid a lot less than the Anglo counterparts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">In the mid-1980s, I was working at the now-closed El Paso Herald-Post when a similar description of work assignments surfaced of all places, the federal courthouse in El Paso.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">Hispanic FBI agents alleged they were disproportionately assigned to what they called the \u201cTaco Circuit\u201d and the \u201cTortilla Circuit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">The denials rained down in Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62084\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62084\" style=\"width: 359px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-62084\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/images-50.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"239\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal Courthouse El Paso, Texas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">FBI officials insisted the bureau treated Hispanic agents fairly, repeatedly defending its practices by citing \u201cthe needs of the bureau.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">Hispanic agents filed class-action discrimination lawsuit, initially filed by 331 agents from across the nation in 1988. It landed in U.S. District Judge Lucius Bunton\u2019s court in El Paso.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">Hispanic agents testified about the ape ugly and racist side of the agency charged with enforcing the nation\u2019s civil rights laws:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">\u201cLouis Barragan, an agent from Sarasota, Fla., testified that he had heard white agents refer to Hispanic colleagues as \u2018lazy spics,\u2019 \u2018dirty Mexicans\u2019 and \u2018lazy Mexican wetbacks.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">A new agent, Alba Lorena Sierra, said she was told by supervisors in her training that she looked \u2018too ethnic\u2019 and should buy Vogue magazine for tips on hair styles.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62085\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62085\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-62085 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Lucius_Desha_Bunton-244x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Lucius_Desha_Bunton-244x300.png 244w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Lucius_Desha_Bunton.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The late U.S. District Judge Lucius Bunton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">Bunton heard that testimony and more. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">He ruled that the FBI had engaged in a \u201cpattern and practice of discrimination against Hispanic Agents.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">In my Oct. 1, 1988, story, I reported that Bunton packed his decision with strongly worded language, even invoking the biblical command to \u201clove thy neighbor as thyself.\u201d He described the bureau\u2019s Equal Employment Opportunity system as \u201cdeficient\u201d and in \u201cserious need of revision.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">Hispanic agents, Judge Bunton said, should not be treated as \u201cAnglo helpers,\u201d used as translators for agents who didn\u2019t speak Spanish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">\u201cI\u2019ve never seen a finer written opinion,\u201d Hugo Rodriguez, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said in my article.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\"><strong>Fast-forward: Translating for Amber in El Paso<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10808\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10808\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Joe-Olvera.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"254\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Olvera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">Years later, my friend and former reporter, Joe Olvera, recounted a familiar \u201cAnglo helper\u201d story from the El Paso Times newsroom in his 2007 book, <em>Chicano \u2014 Sin Fin! \u2014 Memoirs of a Chicano Journalist.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">Joe was assigned to go on an assignment with Amber, a white reporter, to translate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">\u201cBob, what\u2019s the idea of assigning me to translate for Amber Smith? That was an insult of the highest degree. Bob, if you want someone to cover a story with Spanish speakers, then assign it to me or one of the other Chicano reporters,\u201d Joe told El Paso Times City Editor Bob Locke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">\u201cBut never, ever again assign me to be an Anglo helper because I am no such thing. I am a legitimate journalist, reporter and columnist with tons of experience\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">Joe was a very good friend, a columnist and a journalist who loved to rattle cages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">Like me, he worked at both the Herald-Post and the El Paso Times. He had also freelanced for CBS in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">I loved watching him challenge the editors and point out the newspaper&#8217;s in-house injustices. He had the heart of a lion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">All 6 feet 3 inches of him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">Joe was vociferous, especially when standing in the middle of the newsroom protesting yet another barrio or Juarez assignment or another request to serve as a translator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">I was a rookie reporter. Unlike Joe, I would have washed cars, picked up dry cleaning or babysat white kids to keep working in that newsroom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">When I landed a job at the Herald-Post, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. So I swallowed my pride and became an \u201cAnglo helper,\u201d too \u2014 a newsroom translator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">Once, I was sent to translate for Herald-Post reporter Jim Braden, who was working on a feature puff piece in Juarez.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">While we were there, news broke that authorities had arrested the Rio Grande Strangler, who had killed several Mexican women along the river.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">I knew this was a long way from the puff piece Jim had come to write. I jumped on it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">\u201cI got this,\u201d I told him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">He gladly agreed to let me cover the Mexican police press conference. I wrote the story, and the editors loved it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">As my experience grew, so did my confidence. I became more vocal, more assertive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">By my later newsroom years, I had acquired an attitude. Some would call it a chip on my shoulder. I made no apologies when I believed I was being treated unfairly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">\u201cHey, seriously. Do I look like your gardener? Do you see a leaf blower in my hand? Am I your bitch today?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">I once told an editor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">In his book, <strong>Chicano Sin Fin!<\/strong> on page 35, my friend, Joe, described me as &#8220;fearless.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">I hope I didn&#8217;t let you down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">RIP, <em>carnal.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY RAUL HERNANDEZ \u201cYou ever heard of the Taco Beat?\u201d I asked a young Hispanic newspaper reporter that question in 2013 at a National Association of Hispanic Journalists gathering in Anaheim. 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