Category: Human Rights
Denying health care to undocumented immigrants is just another version of a death panel
LatinaLista — During yesterday’s coverage of Honduras’ elections, reports were being filed from cities such as Miami, Houston, NYC and Los Angeles citing the number of Hondurans who reside in those cities but were doing their civic duty in voting for their home country’s next President. With poverty rampant in Honduras, Haiti being the only [...]
Non-profit expects word-of-mouth to force Chevron to do what is right for Ecuadorian indigenous
When newspapers cut their foreign news bureaus, they did more than just save themselves a few extra bucks — they created a vacuum for news happening outside the United States. One of the casualties is news of an ongoing $27 billion pollution lawsuit between 30,000 indigenous Ecuadorians and the American oil company Chevron. The lawsuit [...]
Son’s 20 years of wrongful imprisonment hasn’t dimmed the hopes of one mother’s wish for justice
Since first learning a couple of years ago about Efren Paredes and the sad way the justice system of 20 years ago failed a young Latino Honors student, and how the current system is only perpetuating the wrongs committed then, Latina Lista has solidly stood among the many supporters who believe that Efren was wrongfully [...]
Twenty Dallas police officers added language enforcement to their duties
LatinaLista — When news filtered out last week from Dallas, Texas that a rookie police officer had ticketed a woman for not being able to speak English, most people rolled their eyes and thought this was just a case of an overzealous recruit. Come to find out there are about 20 overzealous officers — and [...]
The unsolved deaths of the women in Juarez live on in song and art
LatinaLista — It is said that music is timeless. Unfortunately, some heartbreaking crimes are also timeless as long as they remain unsolved. Join the two together — music and an unsolved crime and the results are lyrics that are haunting, memorable and serve as the voice of the victims. That’s the case with a song [...]
Department of Homeland Security should revoke the 287(g) program until there is immigration reform
LatinaLista — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is not a happy camper these days. It seems the federal government has had enough of the complaints lobbed against Arpaio’s use of the government’s 287(g) program, which authorizes local law enforcement to enforce immigration policy. With his infamous “immigration sweep” operations, Arpaio has been accused of abusing [...]
New virtual game challenges “citizens” to think for themselves and create the world of their dreams
LatinaLista — Did you ever wonder what the world would be like — if you ran it? Well, courtesy of some European game developers, you can assume the role of citizen extraordinaire in a new game called eRepublik. Available in five languages, eRepublik, is a virtual version of the real world — with a twist. [...]
TX Mexican-Americans birthed by midwives still can’t get Washington to give them a passport
LatinaLista — It was just a little over a year ago that unimaginable stories of how Mexican-Americans, along the Texas-Mexico border, who had the misfortune of being birthed by a midwife, were suddenly being denied passports. The situation was problematic because without a passport, these border dwellers couldn’t comply with the new federal regulations for [...]
Guatemala: A hunger crisis eating up the poorest of the poor
By Mayra Beltran de Daetz GUATEMALA: At the end of August 2009, the people of Guatemala found out, through the media, that there were towns that were suffering from the damage caused by a winter without rain. Because there was no rain, many harvests were lost and, as a result, thousands of families are dying [...]
New short film follows Postville deportees home and their continuing struggle to survive
LatinaLista — One of the Guatemalan immigrants, Willian Toj, who was apprehended and deported in May 2008 from Postville, Iowa wasn’t just working illegally in the United States at the meatpacking plant to send money back home — he was working to literally save the life of his mother. Toj’s story is but one of [...]
