Category: Global Views
Mexican resort chain offers Facebook-only contest for free getaway
LatinaLista — Summer may be winding down but there’s still time for one more getaway with the amigas — and to get started all you need is a Facebook account.
Guest Voz: Invitation from Guatemalan Human Rights Commission shows 2nd-generation Latina what happened to Postville deportees
By Cynthia Mazariegos LatinaLista — Second-generation Guatemalan-American, Cynthia Mazariegos, dreams of becoming a lawyer one day and championing justice for immigrants as an immigration attorney. Her dreams are fueled by the ongoing debate in the United States over comprehensive immigration reform and witnessing how hard-working, undocumented immigrants have been caught in the middle of this [...]
New digital book puts a Human Face to Transnationalism
LatinaLista — What is transnationalism? The Merriam-Webster definition says it’s “extending or going beyond national boundaries.” Yet, for the purposes of a new digital, virtual coffee table-type book, transnationalism, as it pertains to the United States, has a much deeper meaning.
LL Original Report: Mexican resort town doesn’t let the issue of human rights abuses relax
By Mariana Llamas-Cendon Latinalista MANZANILLO, MEXICO: The city of Manzanillo, the main tourist destination of the Mexican state of Colima, houses a very unusual attraction. Something a visitor or a resident would never expect to see in a beach resort — The Museum of Perversity: A Historic Look at Human Rights. Manzanillo is one of [...]
New campaign asking the world to vote for the top 7 Natural Wonders
LatinaLista — The Grand Canyon. The Amazon. The Dead Sea. The Galapagos Islands. These are just a few of the 28 natural wonders of the world that a new campaign is asking people to decide from to create the top 7 to be deemed the New 7 Wonders of Nature. Organizers of the campaign, who [...]
Mandela Day aims to inspire the world
LatinaLista — Tomorrow, July 18, is the 91st birthday of South Africa’s Nelson Mandela. It is also the first global observance of Mandela Day. Nelson Mandela The day isn’t just to honor the legacy of one of the world’s most respected human rights leader but it is also a day dedicated to creating a global [...]
Colombia: Competition fosters Human Development
By Rocio Arango Giraldo LatinaLista Colombia: These days, I have been thinking what is the reason the Technology Park, where I work, has both the Government Secretary’s Competitiveness Department and the Agency for Development. I think I know. Last month, I had the opportunity to participate in an event that centered on a subject I [...]
Brazil’s amnesty of its undocumented highlights the need for a 3-part approach to longlasting immigration reform
LatinaLista — The issue of undocumented immigration and its consequences is not unique to the United States. Countries throughout the world are grappling with the same problem. Sometimes, their approaches to solving this universal dilemma is worse than what is being considered in the United States and sometimes it’s better — far better. Brazil’s President [...]
Guatemala: One man reaches out from the grave to expose the corruption in the nation’s politics
By Mayra Beltran de Daetz GUATEMALA: On Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 9:15, three bullets hit the body of 47-year-old lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg while he was riding his bicycle in a residential area of Guatemala City. Like all crime scenes, in the area was found evidence of the weapon and vehicles. Six were the bullets [...]
Guest Voz: Honduran blogger sets record straight on real story in Honduras
LatinaLista — Earlier this week, Latina Lista published a post opining how the “coup” in Honduras didn’t have all the earmarks of traditional Latin American military takeovers. Honduran protesters march against the referendum. (Source: El Heraldo newspaper) Yet, many readers disagreed pointing to the fact that the military forced the President out of the palace [...]
