By Elise Foley The Huffington Post WASHINGTON — Every day for two weeks, 10-year-old Stephanie Pucheta sat down in front of a camera and talked about her father, Julio Cesar Pucheta, who was deported in January. She talked about the day a judge told her father he would be forced to leave home, about how [...]
Couple Overcomes Racial, Cultural and Language Differences for More than Two Decades
By Vanessa Sahawi El Nuevo Sol My parents, Rey Sahawi and Alicia Martínez, coexist in an interracial marriage. As they sit together on their balcony, watching the view of Downtown Los Angeles, they reflect and fully understand that love has to be a deciding factor into why their marriage has lasted for such a long [...]
Video: Another deportation rips apart yet another family with a young child growing up too fast
LatinaLista — On a day when the story of 10-year-old Stephanie Pucheta’s heartbreaking story of the deportation of her father made cyber-headlines, another story of how current immigration policies is separating families comes to the big screen in the documentary “Two Americans.” Again, the story revolves around a young child separated from her parents. The [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Latina teens get a new ‘circle’ of friends who help make their college dreams a reality
LatinaLista — While more Latinas are going to college and getting their degrees, it’s also true that young Latinas are still the largest group who are getting pregnant in high school, not finishing their education and perpetuating a cycle of poverty and low-wage jobs in their communities. In North Carolina, young Latinas, starting in the [...]
Guest Voz: Chicano history reading more like a bad translation
By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista As we distance ourselves from the sixties, more and more Chicana/o monographs and dissertations are being written in translation. Many of the young scholars have never been involved in the civil rights movement, and much of what they write about the past is hearsay. Like any other secondhand narrative, it [...]
Mexico’s Red Cross creates crowdfunding campaign to build desert cooling stations for U.S.-bound migrants
LatinaLista — Leaving cool water in the blazing desert for migrants desperate to risk their lives to enter the United States without the proper paperwork is not a new act of kindness. Yet, for an aid organization to start a crowdfunding campaign to help them leave water in the desert is new. La Cruz Roja [...]
