Category: Life Issues
Texas border mayor challenges latest reality show attempt to portray Laredo, TX as a city under cartel siege
LatinaLista — The clock is ticking to tonight’s CNN/Tea Party Republican presidential debate. Already, pundits are speculating on what the headlines will be tomorrow morning from tonight’s debate. All are itching to see how the candidates talk about Social Security since TX Gov. Perry has made some radical statements on the issue. Yet, there’s another [...]
Guest Voz: President Obama puts Latino children at risk with clean air sabotage
Latina Lista — President Obama surprised many when he reversed course on stopping the EPA from enforcing tougher smog standards. Environmentalists were outraged and according to today’s Guest Voz contributor, Adrianna Quintero, so should be the Latino community. Quintero is an environmental advisor of Voces Verdes, a Latino green coalition. In the following piece, Quintero [...]
Nonprofit Spotlight: Giving hope, love and attention to end-of-life patients
LatinaLista — In the Latino culture, the notion that any member of our families would die alone is such a foreign concept that we don’t give it a second thought. Unfortunately, when it comes to terminally ill, indigent people, who have no extended family, the prospect of dying alone isn’t just inevitable, it’s likely that [...]
The human cost of anti-immigrant policies: The starving of Latino immigrant children
LatinaLista — One has to wonder if state legislators, who are doing their darndest to make life hellish for undocumented immigrants by passing punitive laws, really know what their actions are doing to undocumented immigrants and their families. A new study makes one impact very clear. Bread for the World Institute releases today a disturbing [...]
Nonprofit Spotlight: Giving homeless children something to call their own
LatinaLista — Dedria Brunett is all smiles these days. Life is going well. She reigns as Miss Teen California International 2010. Her non profit Luggage of Love is getting a lot of press, she’s started community college and she is pursuing a dream she’s had for a while — acting. Yet, there was a time [...]
Indigent women of Latin America blaze new trails for themselves, their families and countries
LatinaLista — Inequality between women and men still exists in greater degrees in South America than they do anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere. A review of any telenovela makes the disparity between the sexes immediately apparent and underscores how social attitudes towards women in South America lag behind those of the United States. As [...]
El Paso school districts have no idea how many new students fled Juárez
By Aaron Martinez and Mariel Torres Borderzine EL PASO — As the drug war rages on in México, the number of students that have enrolled in El Paso schools due to the violence remains unknown and unrecorded by schools. Ysleta and the Socorro Independent School Districts said there is no clear indication that people fleeing [...]
New HUD report shows increase outreach to immigrants, minorities, the disabled and the LGBT
LatinaLista — Housing discrimination exists in this country. It’s a fact. In 2010, more than 10,000 fair housing discrimination complaints were received by the US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development according to the recently released analysis, Live Free: Annual Report on Fair Housing 2010. Guess who is the largest group of people discriminated against when [...]
CASA: Making a difference for San Antonio’s Children
By Lucia Almanza La Prensa San Antonio SAN ANTONIO — As families head back to school, not every child is as fortunate to depend on a strong family foundation to help them make that smooth transition. As a matter of fact, there are numerous children in San Antonio without a family who are in great [...]
New Pew survey shows social media driven by women, Latinos and blacks
LatinaLista — With every natural disaster, juicy celebrity gossip or disruptive political happening, the role of social media takes on greater importance. Yet, there are two other things people do online that overshadow the popularity of social media — send and check email and use search engines. That’s according to the latest study by the [...]
