LatinaLista — A lot has been written and filmed about the ongoing building of the border wall along the US-Mexico border. The latest film to chronicle the impact of the border wall in the region is simply titled “The Wall.” The Wall is a new, feature documentary about the construction of a fence along the [...]
Republicans keep handing Democrats Latino voters on a silver platter
LatinaLista — Only one GOP Senator on the Senate Judiciary Committee broke party ranks when siding with his Democratic peers today in voting to send a positive recommendation to the full Senate that Judge Sonia Sotomayor should be confirmed as the first Latina Supreme Court justice. It was a partisan split that became really apparent [...]
New digital book puts a Human Face to Transnationalism
LatinaLista — What is transnationalism? The Merriam-Webster definition says it’s “extending or going beyond national boundaries.” Yet, for the purposes of a new digital, virtual coffee table-type book, transnationalism, as it pertains to the United States, has a much deeper meaning. DayNightLifeDeathHope explores transnationalism as the “accommodation of immigrant cultures into a more open ‘cosmopolitan’ [...]
An unforeseen consequence of recession — fewer people of color being hired
LatinaLista — This week’s Newsweek magazine cover story proclaims what everyone has been waiting for — the recession is over! Of course, such a proclamation is being dissected all across the blogosphere and on talk radio but the author of the article says the determination to call the recession is actually based on a technicality: [...]
Cincinnati discovers they’re not immune to human trafficking
LatinaLista — Human trafficking is known to be a worldwide phenomenon but the trouble, at least in this country, is making people aware that it is also a local phenomenon. Well, the people of Cincinnati, Ohio now know exactly — or as exactly as one can be — just how widespread it is in their [...]
LL Original Report: Mexican resort town doesn’t let the issue of human rights abuses relax
By Mariana Llamas-Cendon Latinalista MANZANILLO, MEXICO: The city of Manzanillo, the main tourist destination of the Mexican state of Colima, houses a very unusual attraction. Something a visitor or a resident would never expect to see in a beach resort — The Museum of Perversity: A Historic Look at Human Rights. Manzanillo is one of [...]
