LatinaLista — There’s a saying that says “You do the crime, you do the time.” For thousands of teens and young adults who make one stupid mistake in their lives, or even a series of petty, irresponsible mistakes, they are finding themselves locked away in county jails and juvenile detention centers doing their time. In [...]
Viernes Video: New comedy web series explores the ratio of men’s feminine side in a macho world
LatinaLista — It’s said that all men have a feminine side. The question is what’s the ratio for a man to have only a feminine side without being totally gay. The creators of a new comedy web series believe that ratio may be 80/20. 80/20, the brainchild of Christopher Oscar Peña and Vayu O’Donnell, follows [...]
Video: In New York City’s crowded music scene, an all-girl mariachi group makes itself heard
LatinaLista — Mariachi music is synonymous with Mexico. The music and its singers are iconic figures of Mexican culture, and in turn, to all people of Mexican descent wherever they live. That is true especially for the Mexican American community in the United States. What once was considered to be nothing more than a genre [...]
Intrn’l Video: Film recounts horrifying experience of 9-year-old boy SMUGGLED into the U.S.
LatinaLista — Human smuggling has long been a way for people from south of the border to enter the United States without the proper paperwork. Most of those who are smuggled into the U.S. usually pay a coyote, an individual who is responsible to getting them to their destination — “the other side.” Yet, human [...]
Video: Did GOOGLE get ‘egg’ on its face for featuring Cesar Chavez doodle on Easter
LatinaLista — In featuring Mexican American civil rights figure Cesar Chavez in a special GOOGLE doodle, the global search engine probably thought it would be a great hit, especially with Latinos. It would have been had it not been for one slight detail — Chavez’s birthday just happened to be on Easter this year. Outcry [...]
Video: Capturing the essence of life amid the Mexican drug war
LatinaLista — A lot has been written about the Mexican drug war but documentary photographer Louie Palu decided to let his photographs and multimedia pieces convey the true horror and angst that the drug-related violence is having on both Mexico and the United States. Palu is known for conducting long-term photographic studies on political and [...]
