By Jennifer Barreto-Leyva LatinaLista CARACAS — The day has arrived when I couldn’t be any more proud to be a woman in Venezuela. It’s all because of Venezuelan Presidential Candidate, Maria Corina Machado. Machado challenged President Hugo Chavez in…
By Dr. Jacqueline Zaleski Mackenzie LatinaLista GUANAJUATO, MEXICO—In Yurabuena, Guanajuato (GTO). There is a busy intersection at the entrance to the Gloriata Santa Fe. Cars are coming in from the Leon, GTO, toll road, the bus station, and the…
By Jennifer Barreto-Leyva LatinaLista CARACAS — Women implanted with the faulty PIP breast implants have filed a lawsuit not only against the French company that made them, Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP), but the medical distributors who sold them in…
by Ivonne Jeannot Laens Global Press Institute The protocol for reporting rape is unique in Buenos Aires, Argentina’s capital, thanks to a program that aims to provide assistance and emotional support to victims. A specially trained team of women…
By Dr. Jacqueline Zaleski Mackenzie LatinaLista GUANAJUATO, MEXICO— In the little village of Nuevo Cajones, outside Guanajuato, November 12th was the date I had to be home because Janet was celebrating her Quinceañera that day, certainly a great deal…
By Anna-Claire Bevan REVUE: Guatemala’s English-language Magazine What started out as a fun crafts workshop has become a resource for entrepreneurship, enabling many of its members to escape the dangers of working in one of Central America’s largest garbage…
By Dr. Jacqueline Zaleski Mackenzie LatinaLista GUANAJUATO, MEXICO— About 39 people ate at our home on Sunday, November 20th. We had been asked to show our extended family what a USA Thanksgiving Meal was all about. Only three Gringos…
By Danila Garcia LatinaLista SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR — In El Salvador in 1930, the first female president in all of Latin America was elected. Her name was Prudencia Ayala and she led the way in history to proclaim…
By M. Isabel Guerra LatinaLista LIMA, PERU — An incident that took place at a Lima shopping mall last weekend brought the attention back to the issue of racism in Peru. An indigenous from Cusco, who was visiting Lima…
By Dr. Jacqueline Zaleski Mackenzie LatinaLista GUANAJUATO, MEXICO – To be perfectly honest, when in the USA I hate leaving the house in December. It seems to me that “rushing for more shopping” is the main focus in December…
By Martha Ramos LatinaLista MEXICO CITY — Last saturday, an earthquake shook 10 states in Mexico. It was the worst earthquake in 10 years, but at least Mexico City is prepared for that. After the big destruction caused by…
By Jennifer Barreto-Leyva LatinaLista CARACAS,VENEZUELA — As a Venezuelan reporter, this is one of those stories you really hate to write or talk about. A few weeks ago, when Venezuelan baseball player Wilson Ramos was kidnapped, my family and…
LatinaLista — In the United States, while Latinos and blacks are always lumped together under the “minority” or “people of color” labels, for all other intentions, both camps are seen as separate and distinct. That’s not always the case….
LatinaLista — It is reported that among the vast majority of the world’s languages, the word for “mother” begins with the letter M. This simple bit of trivia underscores how the experience of motherhood is an uniting force for…
By Dr. Jacqueline Zaleski Mackenzie LatinaLista GUANAJUATO, MEXICO– My stomach knots when my gate bell fails to ring a few seconds after the 3:45 p.m. bus passes. I replay a familiar assumption: “Kirt’s mother must not have had four…
By Roxana Urrutia LatinaLista The other day at the park there was a lady, who obviously knew nothing about dogs, accusing another woman’s dog of being fat. The dog owner argued back defending her dog’s physique, and amid that…
By Edy Bestle LatinaLista SAO PAULO, BRAZIL — Amazing! Astonishing! Breathtaking! These are some of the adjectives heard referring to the opening of the Guadalajara Pan-American Games. It is really a privilege to be watching this event, even if…
LatinaLista — Antigua, Guatemala has a lot of things going for it — beautifully preserved Spanish Mudéjar-influenced Baroque architecture; spectacular ruins of colonial churches; an internationally recognized destination for Spanish language study and within sight of three large volcanoes….
LatinaLista — As all Latinos know, and some non-Latinos, the term “Latino” or “Hispanic” is merely an umbrella term to lump all Spanish-speakers together. Unfortunately, in lumping Latinos all together, there is an assumption that Latinos are all the…
LatinaLista — Ever since the practice of “micro loans” was made popular in helping women entrepreneurs in developing nations establish their businesses, the products they made didn’t travel far out of their neighborhoods. Yet, with technology, the sophistication of business…
LatinaLista — Today, September 21, 2011 is the U.N. declared International Day of Peace. If ever there was a time in our planet’s history that peace was needed, it’s now. Though war rages on in other countries, the most…
LatinaLista — There is no issue that is borderless or as universal in its appeal than the plight of mothers and their children in developing countries. We saw that during the recent high-profile coverage of the Somali women and children…
LatinaLista — The concept of peace around the world used to be considered a New Age ideal or the one answer that didn’t require too much explaining when uttered by beauty pageant contestants. Yet, like all things, the issue…
The Venture HOUSTON — Joshua A. Molina’s death in Iraq did not cut short his dreams of bettering the lives of Guatemalan children. Molina, a 20-year-old Army Corporal, was born and raised in Houston. As he grew up, he…
LatinaLista — Slowly the realization is hitting home with some US politicians that Mexico’s relationship with the United States is so deeply intertwined with our own history and society, unlike other foreign countries, that it’s no longer excusable to…
