By Claire O’Brien The Secret Lives of Gas Stations SOMEONE ELSE’S COUNTRY Say what you will about the United States as a global neighbor: one thing we show up for is drawing maps. All over the world, when a map has needed drawing, whether to create a new country, split a country in two, [...]
How the Drug Trade Fuels Femicide in Central America
By Edward Fox InSight Crime Since the “Northern Triangle” of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala emerged as the main corridor for US-bound drugs, it has become one of the deadliest places in the world to be a woman, and the killings show little sign of abating. In the first six months of this year seventeen [...]
Texas District Brings Dropouts Back to School with College Courses
By Katherine Leal Unmuth Latino Ed Beat Pharr-San Juan-Alamo School District Superintendent Daniel King makes an unusual pitch to high school dropouts to get them to re-enroll in the district: He offers them the option to start college while they are finishing high school. “It’s kind of an oxymoron, but we used an early college [...]
Changing Perceptions of Childhood Obesity Within the Latino Community
SaludToday With childhood obesity continuing to hit harder in the Latino community, 30 Hispanic journalists gathered in Los Angeles last month to hear experts talk about solutions. The panel discussion, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), was part of a daylong National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) Region 8 Conference at the University [...]
Guest Voz: Most U.S. citizens suffer from a severely low Southwest history IQ
By José Antonio López LatinaLista After reading an article I wrote recently entitled “The Tejano/Tejana Bucket List”, many readers wonder why they had never heard of the people, places, and events I mentioned. As a result, some have already started their “to do” wish list. Still, others lamented correctly that it won’t be easy for [...]
Guatemala to capitalize on Mayan roots to boost much-needed tourism industry
By Anna Bevan LatinaLista Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina launched a new National Development Plan for Sustainable Tourism, which aims to increase the number of tourists visiting the country by 35 percent over the next 10 years. Speaking to one of Guatemala’s national newspapers, the president said: “We are setting out to position Guatemala as [...]
