The countdown to Christmas officially begins for many of us, as well as, Trump’s impeachment trial. Yet, our main focus this week should be on Madrid, the last-minute site for the international gathering for the Conference of Parties for…
President Trump’s campaign team thinks his ongoing rally appearances will seal political wins for himself in 2020 and those he endorses. The reality is slowly sinking in and a new study just put another hole in that expectation; Child…
With news of the arrest of the latest egregious and senseless murder of an innocent black person by a police officer, the debut of a USA Today investigation into police misconduct is not only timely but sheds light on…
As if Trump wasn’t busy enough inflicting pain on the world, he now takes aim at DREAMers and wants the Supreme Court to listen to him; Speaking of Trump, the news network he considered his personal propaganda machine just…
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Unique online course strives to bring Puerto Rico’s ongoing crisis ‘home’ to students
Aug 29, 2018, 12:54 PM 0
LatinaLista — In the hours after Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, it was obvious, to those islanders accustomed to weathering tropical storms, that this was no ordinary hurricane. In the days and weeks that followed, as federal relief…
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Guest Voces: Puerto Rico and the Apathy of the Federal Government
Mar 20, 2018, 2:52 PM 0
By Rafael Medina and Enrique Fernández-Toledo ncluido Six months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the federal government’s response has been inexcusably slow, its spending wasteful, and its aid inadequate. On January 31 of this year, the Federal Emergency…
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Why Puerto Rico’s death toll from Hurricane Maria is so much higher than officials thought
Jan 3, 2018, 1:16 PM 0
By Alexis R. Santos-Lozada The Conversation “If you don’t get away from those areas, you are going to die.” That phrase concluded Puerto Rico Secretary of Public Safety Héctor Pesquera’s press conference before Hurricane Maria. Three months after the…
By Carson Bear Saving Places With Puerto Rico still reeling from Hurricane Maria, the community there faces an urgent need. During the storm, thousands of buildings—historic and new—lost their roofs. Fresh rain furthers damages to these places, delaying people’s…
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Why Puerto Rico ‘doesn’t count’ to the US government
Oct 26, 2017, 8:47 AM 0
By Jay L. Zagorsky The Conversation Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September, destroying homes, crops and communications. Many weeks later, power has been restored to fewer than 20 percent of homes. A third of the population…
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Is racial bias driving Trump’s neglect of Puerto Rico?
Oct 19, 2017, 9:54 AM 0
By Lauren Lluveras The Conversation The morning after Hurricane Maria blasted through Puerto Rico, I emailed my aunt to ask if she was safe. That was Sept. 21. I heard back from her on Oct. 10. She was fine,…
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Puerto Rico needs help & support, not threats & insults hurled from the White House
Oct 13, 2017, 8:00 AM 0
By Carmen Yulin Cruz ncluido Editor’s Note: The following was sent by Puerto Rico’s Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz to members of Congress in response to President Trump’s tweets and threats of revoking aid to the island. Puerto Ricans have…
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New Yale study underscores how serious climate change is to Latinxs
Sep 27, 2017, 1:23 PM 0
LatinaLista — Long before Hurricanes Maria, Irma and Harvey, Latinos knew that man had a hand in climate-induced disasters. A 2015 poll by EarthJustice and GreenLatinos found that 66 percent of Latinos believed global warming and climate change were…
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Rep. Luis Gutiérrez delivers stinging rebuke to Trump’s tweets on Puerto Rico
Sep 26, 2017, 10:25 AM 0
LatinaLista — Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez is a Member of the Judiciary Committee and the Chair of the Immigration Task Force of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Today, he spoke on the House floor about the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Puerto Rico…
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Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy will make hurricane recovery brutal – here’s why
Sep 26, 2017, 10:06 AM 0
By Lauren Lluveras The Conversation The United States had already seen its share of disasters, from back-to-back hurricanes that devastated Texas, Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islandsto roaring wildfires in the West. Then, after battering the rest of the…
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Teachers Union Offers Support to Educators in Puerto Rico
Jun 23, 2017, 8:43 AM 0
By Marilyn Garateix Latino Ed Beat Educators in Puerto Rico are getting support from the American Federation of Teachers in their efforts to thwart a plan to close schools as a way of helping the island deal with its…
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Crowdfunder: Bringing a much-needed Christmas to the gente of La Perla slum in Puerto Rico
Nov 25, 2015, 12:28 PM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: La Perla Christmas Filmmaker Silent Lee thought he was only going to make a documentary about one of the most notorious slums in Puerto Rico. What happened next changed his life forever. In March of this…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Vietnam, Puerto Rico Vietnam, PR—a community or barrio located on the coast of Guaynabo and Cataño, is undergoing an illegal expropriation at the hands of Guaynabo City’s Mayor Hector O’Neill. Vietnam’s demise is a casualty…
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Crowdfunder: Documentary of forgotten Nuyorican basketballer history
Oct 27, 2015, 12:45 PM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Nuyorican Básquet: Documentary Film When the Puerto Rican basketball team played at the 1979 Pan American Games, an oddity was evident: the majority of its players did not speak Spanish, but rather Spanglish. The team…
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Springfield’s Puerto Rican Parade: A Proud History
Sep 16, 2015, 9:53 AM 0
By Annika Darling CTLatinoNews.com The origin of the Springfield Puerto Rican Parade is somewhat of a legend, passed down through parade organizers. As the story goes, when Hurricane Hugo struck Puerto Rico in 1989, nearly 28,000 people were left…
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Book Review: Negras: Stories of Puerto Rican Slave Women
Aug 12, 2015, 11:01 AM 0
By Corina Martinez Chaudhry TheLatinoAuthor.com Negras: Stories of Puerto Rican Slave Women by Yolanda Arroyo Puzarro; Publisher: Independently Published The slave trade is nothing short of a holocaust. Many people’s lives were stolen, uprooted, and destroyed for the greed…
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Connecticut Retirees Expected To Be Hit Hard By Puerto Rico’s Economic Problems
Aug 10, 2015, 10:10 AM 0
By Bill Sarno CTLatinoNews.com The Puerto Rico debt crisis, if not resolved soon, is expected to have an impact far beyond the troubled commonwealth, with Connecticut, as the home to more than 250,000 Puerto Ricans, many with deep ties…
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Guest Voz: A book about Puerto Rico’s shady role in human trafficking rings more fact than fiction
Jul 20, 2015, 12:18 PM 0
By Norma Burgos Vázquez LatinaLista The Feast of San Sebastian hit the bookstands in 2013, but it was not until 2015 that Jonathan Marcantoni’s literary force would ride into my tropical sunset like a cavalry of one. You see,…
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Puerto Ricans in Connecticut Sound Off on Island’s Crisis
Jul 20, 2015, 9:01 AM 0
By Lisa S. Lenkiewicz CTLatinoNews.com Across the state, Puerto Ricans are watching closely and some say with sadness and anger, at the state of financial peril in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Repayment of its outstanding debt –$72 billion…
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Residents fear Riot Fest working to push out Puerto Rican identity of Chicago’s Humboldt Park
May 7, 2015, 11:07 AM 0
By Michael Bacos Extra! As Riot Fest has grown over the past three years, so have Humboldt Park residents’ fears that the festival has become an agent of gentrification. “ have a very colonialist attitude. It’s a…
By John Newton La Voz Latina SAVANNAH, GA — When Puerto Rican native, Pedro Ortiz, arrived in Savannah from Cleveland back in 2001, he didn’t bring any suitcases but he was loaded down with personal baggage. “I got off…
