Category: Columns & Features
Teaching ESL abroad creates new opportunities for adventure for one Latina abuela
LatinaLista Teaching English in the “other” Iraq, Patricia Hernandez finds assimilation into the local culture made easy because of her bicultural and bilingual background. Patricia Hernandez is proof that the spirit of adventure isn’t just reserved for the young. This 53-year-old California grandmother of three decided to venture out of her comfort zone and [...]
Bolivia: Rations a part of life
By Angie Washington Latina Lista COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA — Dotted along every major thoroughfare, vendors set up tarps to sell their wares. When I drove by a long line of people, shopping bags in hand, I was curious what wonderful product was being offered. As I peered under the covered bed of the old truck, one [...]
Guest Voz: Recession Has Expanded Racial Economic Gap
By George E. Curry LatinaLista — From 2001 until 2007, George Curry served as editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) News Service in Washington, D.C. He writes a weekly syndicated column for the NNPA and “Beyond the Spin,” a column for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Before joining the NNPA, Curry was editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine [...]
Young Latina blazes trail in environmental activism in Puerto Rico
By Natalia A. Bonilla-Berrios LatinaLista A young environmentalist leads the way in Puerto Rico to show how nature and humanity depend on one another for survival. Ana Elisa Pérez Quintero’s love affair with nature began when she was only three-years-old and dunked her face into a mangrove swamp. It was this first real contact with [...]
Latino baby boomer entrepreneurs sought as nominees for special social purpose prize
LatinaLista — In these economic times, the thought of retirement for many Baby Boomers is as much an impossibility as being in their twenties again. Most people older than 60 are resigned to the fact of working until they can physically no longer do it. Yet, there is a difference in this era between working [...]
USA: Latina candidate not discouraged by “dirty” politics
By Debbie Gordils LatinaLista CHICAGO, USA — Living in Chicago and being Hispanic, makes for an interesting backdrop to Chicago-style politics. In the last 8 years since I became involved, I have run for office twice — in 2003 for 33rd Ward Alderman against Richard Mell and again in the 2009 special election Congressional race [...]
TEDWomen: The world now knows Bolivian women have ideas worth sharing
By Jacqueline Patiño LatinaLista.net In December 2010, a special conference for women was held in Washington DC. It was titled TEDWomen: Reshaping the Future. The conference was unprecedented in how many women from around the world and from all walks of life converged together to learn from one another, get to know each other and [...]
New report spotlights the plight of migrant women
LatinaLista — From June 4-5, 2010 in Bucharest, Romania, women from around the world met to discuss the human rights of one class of women who have no voice in how they are treated — migrant women. The result of that conference, coordinated by the Europe-based Globalizing Gender Equality and Social Justice organization, otherwise known [...]
Latinos and the College Application Process: Mount Everest
Angelica Perez-Litwin, PhD New Latina As I am faced again with the college application process, this time with my 16 year old daughter, I am as concerned today about access to higher education and Latinos, as I was 25 years ago. While the social, educational and economic barriers to higher education for Latinos have [...]
Global campaign underway to fight human trafficking
LatinaLista.net — January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Yesterday, January 11, was Human Trafficking Awareness Day. It’s reported that 27 million people worldwide are enslaved today. Whether it’s prostituting children and women or forcing people to do domestic chores or provide cheap factory labor, enslaving people still lives on as an underworld [...]
