Geraldo L. Cadava

2 months ago | geraldocadava.substack.com | Geraldo L. Cadava

While in Tampa this week, I rented a car and drove across the bay to St. Petersburg, to visit the “Jungle Prada Site.” It’s believed to be the point where the ill-fated Pánfilo de Narváez expedition, including Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, got lost off the Florida coast, sent small boats to shore, and first encountered the Tocobaga—one of the tribes that today’s Seminoles claim as ancestors.

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Geraldo L. Cadava

Last Sunday, at a Spanish-language mass at St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Pilsen, on the Lower West Side of Chicago, Father Arturo Pérez spoke of our moment. “Nobody is more important than anyone else,” he said. “What happens to one happens to all of us. What one suffers we all suffer.” Outside, ICE raids had begun. They were hardly secret.

Nov 17, 2024 | newyorker.com | Geraldo L. Cadava

Donald Trump, according to exit polls, won a greater share of the Latino vote than any Republican Presidential candidate in at least the past half century, and maybe ever. At forty-six per cent—a fourteen-percentage-point increase from 2020—Trump beat George W. Bush’s record by at least two points, and perhaps as many as six. The most eye-popping results were in Miami-Dade County and in southern Texas, where Trump won almost every county along the Mexican border.

Nov 1, 2024 | archive.ph | Benjamin Wallace-Wells |Evan Osnos |Andrew Marantz |Geraldo L. Cadava

At the end of October, a trim and smiling Joe Biden, no longer the Democratic candidate but still the President, delivered some pizzas to a few dozen phone-bankers at a union hall in western Pennsylvania. It was exactly the sort of image that was once supposed to define the 2024 campaign: Democrats saw in Biden a grandfatherly figure who had restored order and common purpose, while Republicans detected a doddering emblem of a frail and aging regime.

Oct 28, 2024 | newyorker.com | Geraldo L. Cadava

In today’s newsletter, unexpected campaign stops in Texas, and then:• Baseball is for the losers• The megachurch that tried to confront racismIn the final flurry of campaign stops, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump found themselves yesterday in . . . Texas. It’s hardly a battleground state, but their visits caused some to speculate about whether Harris was there to help pull off a miracle, or if the candidates had shown up to support Ted Cruz or Colin Allred in their tight Senate race.