By Hillary Ojeda Peru This Week Rust-infected coffee plantations have left farmers in Puno poor and leaning towards growing more and more coca to feed and take care of their families, according to El Comercio. From 2013 to 2014,…
LatinaLista — Uruguay is the second smallest nation in Latin America. Yet,some of its businesses have a big heart. Mamut, an international shoe brand based in Montevideo, Uruguay, partnered with a local recycling plant to offer Uruguayans a deal…
LatinaLista — Today is World Radio Day. In an era where it’s projected that there will be over two billion users of smartphones by 2016. Users who have been documented as accessing their news and information via their smartphones,…
SaludToday Children who consume heavily sweetened energy drinks are 66% more likely to be at risk for hyperactivity and inattention symptoms, according to a new study. On the average day, the 1,649 middle-school students in the study reported consuming…
By Elyssa Pachico InSight Crime According to numbers kept by Mexico‘s government, abductions dropped 17 percent last year, although the numbers kept by a kidnapping watchdog group say otherwise. Data released by the Mexican government show there were 1,394…
By Bjorn Carey Futurity Indigenous people govern about half of all remaining undeveloped land on the planet. New research with indigenous people in the Amazon suggests they may outperform satellites in measuring the true carbon storage potential of the…
By Liz Ortiz LatinaLista Good health, and good health care, is something everyone deserves, but unfortunately too many have gone without. Access to affordable, quality health care is such an important issue right now, especially in my community. One…
By Judith Lawson LatinaLista SANTIAGO, CHILE — Chile has long held the lead in recreational marijuana consumption in Latin America, with 4.2 percent of Chileans using the herb. The country is now forging towards legalization of it for medicinal…
By Vanessa Cardenas Center for American Progress President Obama used his penultimate State of the Union to call for a significant expansion in college access and increased investments in early childhood. This follows his administration’s efforts in the last…
By Hauʻolihiwahiwa Moniz Cultural Survival In early November, I was lucky enough to be asked to testify at a White House Initiative on American Indians and Alaska Natives in Education at Russell Sage College in Troy, New York where…
By Kate Sopcich Council on Hemispheric Affairs Eight years ago, Carmen Guadalupe Vásquez Aldana, an 18-year old mother of one, suffered a miscarriage. Guadalupe, working as a domestic servant in the home of a wealthy Salvadoran family, collapsed and…
By Geoff Montes PreservationNation In Dallas, the ethnic enclave once known as Little Mexico has undergone a rapid shift in the 21st century. The nearby American Airlines Center — home of the Dallas Mavericks — opened in 2001, ushering…
By Hillary Ojeda Peru This Week Last December a group of the tribe entered an Amazonian community leading to their evacuation. In Madre de Dios a native community spotted a group of uncontacted tribes with bows and arrows last…
By Hillary Ojeda Peru This Week Innovative ways to end plastic-use are rapidly finding their ways in all corners of the globe. Prison inmates from Lurigancho prison are making sustainable and ecological woven baskets to promote environmentally friendly practices….
By Sara Inés Calderón Más Wired What if you could make your own commercial for the stuff you wanted to sell online? The DIME is an app created by Latinos that does exactly that. The app allows smartphone users…
LatinaLista — Ever since the announcement that the United States was starting the process of normalizing relations with Cuba, Americans have been salivating for two things: Cuban cigars and the classic cars that stream along the island nation’s roads….
By Erik de la Cruz LatinaLista Surrounded by my entire family as we watched the Golden Globe awards felt like a surreal feeling because of its rarity. With the distraction that is cell phones, I would moderately fade out…
by Kyra Gurney InSight Crime An investigation conducted by a Florida newspaper revealed that numerous Cuban criminal networks operate in the United States, a phenomenon facilitated by US immigration policies that will likely change as the two countries restore…
By Jim Shelton Futurity Kids in the United States who received expanded Medicaid benefits in the 1980s and 1990s have contributed more to the tax system as adults, were more likely to attend college, and were less likely to…
By Hillary Ojeda Peru This Week The Ministry of Culture released a statement regarding one of the most acclaimed Peruvian plays of 2014, after the anti-terrorist government organization, DIRCOTE announced investigations into the producers and actors for defending terrorism….
By Sarah Cooke NerdWallet President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious plan Friday to offer two years of free community college for “those willing to work for it.” It’s a huge shift in policy and part of an administration effort…
By Judith Lawson LatinaLista “Patagonia is like a lover. Once you know her, she will never let you go.” –Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia (1977) Hardly anyone noticed in 1968 when four dusty climbers piled into an old white van…
By Kyra Gurney InSight Crime Researchers in Mexico have theorized that the bodies of the students who disappeared in Iguala may have been burned at an army crematorium, casting further doubts on the official version of an attack that…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat Six law schools in California are boosting their efforts to increase diversity in the legal profession, providing financial-aid counseling, admission-test prep and application-fee waivers, among other services, to students at 24 community colleges….
By Dr. Maria G. Hernandez Latina Cubicle Confidential™ Happy 2015! Feliz Año Nuevo! Are you making any resolutions this year? You know the rules, right? Make them real. Write them down. Go public with your commitment. Reward progress. As…
