Category: Global Views
El Salvador: Women of El Salvador start the New Year with a special law protecting them
By Danila Garcia LatinaLista SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR — In El Salvador in 1930, the first female president in all of Latin America was elected. Her name was Prudencia Ayala and she led the way in history to proclaim the equality of rights. Twenty years after that declaration, the government, in 1950, granted full equality [...]
PERU: RACISM, STILL A PENDING ISSUE
By M. Isabel Guerra LatinaLista LIMA, PERU — An incident that took place at a Lima shopping mall last weekend brought the attention back to the issue of racism in Peru. An indigenous from Cusco, who was visiting Lima on the invitation of some American friends, was treated with disrespect by the entrance guards of [...]
Mexico: A Gringa’s View of Christmas in Central Mexico
By Dr. Jacqueline Zaleski Mackenzie LatinaLista GUANAJUATO, MEXICO – To be perfectly honest, when in the USA I hate leaving the house in December. It seems to me that “rushing for more shopping” is the main focus in December in North America. The month is a time of overspending combined with physical and emotional exhaustion. [...]
Mexico: The earth moved and Twitter danced
By Martha Ramos LatinaLista MEXICO CITY — Last saturday, an earthquake shook 10 states in Mexico. It was the worst earthquake in 10 years, but at least Mexico City is prepared for that. After the big destruction caused by the 1985 earthquake, there have been a lot of changes — different ways to protect people, [...]
The kidnapping of Wilson Ramos underscores Venezuela’s growing national pastime
By Jennifer Barreto-Leyva LatinaLista CARACAS,VENEZUELA — As a Venezuelan reporter, this is one of those stories you really hate to write or talk about. A few weeks ago, when Venezuelan baseball player Wilson Ramos was kidnapped, my family and I, as many other families in Venezuela, who have been victims of the same crime, relived [...]
A rising hemispheric awareness of Afro Latinos
LatinaLista — In the United States, while Latinos and blacks are always lumped together under the “minority” or “people of color” labels, for all other intentions, both camps are seen as separate and distinct. That’s not always the case. Afro-Latinos is a strong category within the U.S. Latino family of sub-groups. So, it’s very fitting [...]
Online exhibit celebrates the voices of mothers from around the world
LatinaLista — It is reported that among the vast majority of the world’s languages, the word for “mother” begins with the letter M. This simple bit of trivia underscores how the experience of motherhood is an uniting force for women everywhere. To showcase the unique perspectives of mothers from around the world, a special advance [...]
Mexico: Understanding the Motivation to Migrate
By Dr. Jacqueline Zaleski Mackenzie LatinaLista GUANAJUATO, MEXICO– My stomach knots when my gate bell fails to ring a few seconds after the 3:45 p.m. bus passes. I replay a familiar assumption: “Kirt’s mother must not have had four pesos this week.” When I last saw 3-year-old Kirt, his spine behaved as though it was [...]
Spain: My doggone theory why one body size shouldn’t dictate beauty
By Roxana Urrutia LatinaLista The other day at the park there was a lady, who obviously knew nothing about dogs, accusing another woman’s dog of being fat. The dog owner argued back defending her dog’s physique, and amid that hyped argument there was a third person who doubted which of the two was right. The [...]
Brazil: The 2011 Pan Am games show the world Brazil is more than soccer
By Edy Bestle LatinaLista SAO PAULO, BRAZIL — Amazing! Astonishing! Breathtaking! These are some of the adjectives heard referring to the opening of the Guadalajara Pan-American Games. It is really a privilege to be watching this event, even if I am watching it on TV, comfortably sitting on my sofa at home, in São Paulo. [...]
