By Natalia A. Bonilla Berrios LatinaLista SAN JUAN — Barack Obama’s healthcare reform will benefit Puerto Rico with $6.6 billion more than the $4.8 expected for Medicaid between 2011 and 2019. After the healthcare bill passed on March 21, Puerto Rico began to look at the next decade which will be crucial for the Island [...]
For Haiti, this year’s World Water Day has new meaning
By Crystal Wells HAITI — March 22nd marks the 18th World Water Day, a date set aside each spring by United Nations proclamation to celebrate the importance of fresh water. For those living in the Developed World, it’s a chance to remember that an estimated 900 million people globally still lack access to the minimum [...]
Haiti: A Promise Made, a Promise Kept
By Crystal Wells If I remember but one face of Haiti, it will be that of four year-old Ornesto, with his big eyes and a nose that crinkles when he laughs. He is small and delicate, with a frame more like a child half his age, and a warm, rambunctious personality. Beyond his energy and [...]
Dr. Paloma Pina: Looking back on two weeks in Haiti
LatinaLista — I had the chance to volunteer in Haiti for the past 2 weeks with International Medical Corps. Today my journey in Haiti has ended and it is just now that I have the time to think about what really this experience meant to me. Now I’m back to reality or is it surrealism? [...]
Puerto Rico: Athletes at the Special Olympics LatinoAmerican Games play for more than to win the gold
By Natalia A. Bonilla Berrios LatinaLista SAN JUAN — It started at 6 p.m. The launch of the first event of its kind to ever be held on the Island, left 20,000 spectators ecstatic. On February 20, Puerto Rico became host to the II Latinoamerican Games of the Special Olympics 2010 in the Hiram Bithorn [...]
USA: A way out for undocumented victims of domestic violence
By Almudena Toral LatinaLista NEW YORK CITY — Graciela Beines is a survivor. She arrived in the United States from Argentina 10 years ago. She was undocumented, unmarried, had no children in the country and barely spoke English. In 2002, Beines, 50, was victim of brutal domestic violence. Many undocumented women like Beines don’t know [...]
