By Amelie Ramirez, Dr. PH U.S.A. — May 31 is World No Tobacco Day. It’s a perfect opportunity to reflect on the effects of smoking and the opportunities to quit smoking, especially among Latinos. For every one person that…
By Natalia A. Bonilla Berrios LatinaLista SAN JUAN — There will not be anymore wake-ups at 5 a.m. Neither will the early morning search for a parking space around the campus will be much of a problem….
By Natalia A. Bonilla Berrios LatinaLista SAN JUAN — The time for separate protests is over. At least, that’s the sentiment that the University of Puerto Rico Workers’ Syndicate, the Puerto Rican Worker’s Federation and the Teacher’s…
By Natalia A. Bonilla Berrios LatinaLista SAN JUAN — Tomorrow, April 13, the students will hold an assembly at a site that has yet to be determined. The students had petitioned to hold the assembly in the…
By Martha Ramos LatinaLista MEXICO CITY — A couple of days ago, I was talking with a friend about old times. When we were kids, we played on the streets in Chihuahua. Last week, he was at a neighbor’s…
By Natalia A. Bonilla Berrios LatinaLista SAN JUAN — When you see that after five days of student strikes that the main gates of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Rio Piedras Campus, are still closed, you…
By Natalia A. Bonilla Berrios LatinaLista SAN JUAN — Pepper gas, pushes and shoves were today´s dawn prescription for campus guards and students at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. What began as a peaceful…
By Natalia A. Bonilla Berrios LatinaLista SAN JUAN — After opting for a 48-hour strike starting Wednesday, April 21, student members of the Negotiation Committee of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Rio Piedras Campus, stood outside the Botanical…
By Natalia A. Bonilla Berrios LatinaLista SAN JUAN — Empty halls and closed classrooms greeted the Humanities and Social Studies students at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Rio Piedras Campus. The University of Puerto Rico is most prestigious educational…
By Isabel Guerra LatinaLista Peru, a country that has been through 300 years of Spanish Viceroyalty, is still, despite the advances of other religions and cults, a Catholic country. Spanish conquistadores set foot on current Peru’s territories in 1532,…
By Martha Ramos LatinaLista MEXICO CITY — In Mexico, one million 816,000 women work as housekeepers. I’ don’t think there are any women stronger than them. Usually, they live in small villages where there is no water or even…
By Natalia A. Bonilla Berrios LatinaLista SAN JUAN — Barack Obama’s healthcare reform will benefit Puerto Rico with $6.6 billion more than the $4.8 expected for Medicaid between 2011 and 2019. After the healthcare bill passed on March 21,…
By Crystal Wells HAITI — March 22nd marks the 18th World Water Day, a date set aside each spring by United Nations proclamation to celebrate the importance of fresh water. For those living in the Developed World, it’s a…
By Crystal Wells If I remember but one face of Haiti, it will be that of four year-old Ornesto, with his big eyes and a nose that crinkles when he laughs. He is small and delicate, with a frame…
LatinaLista — I had the chance to volunteer in Haiti for the past 2 weeks with International Medical Corps. Today my journey in Haiti has ended and it is just now that I have the time to think about…
By Natalia A. Bonilla Berrios LatinaLista SAN JUAN — It started at 6 p.m. The launch of the first event of its kind to ever be held on the Island, left 20,000 spectators ecstatic. On February 20, Puerto Rico…
By Almudena Toral LatinaLista NEW YORK CITY — Graciela Beines is a survivor. She arrived in the United States from Argentina 10 years ago. She was undocumented, unmarried, had no children in the country and barely spoke English. In…
By Anahi Parra LatinaLista CHALCO, MEXICO — Last Friday at 1:30 in the morning, an unexpected roar woke hundreds of families in a section of Mexico City known as Chalco. After a few seconds, the horror of the…
By Martha Ramos LatinaLista MEXICO CITY: Two friends of mine are already organizing their wedding. They’re a gay couple. Since December 22, of last year, people of the same sex can now get married in Mexico City. On March…
By Natalia A. Bonilla-Berrios LatinaLista PUERTO RICO — Governor Luis Fortuño announced this week in his State of the Union address the activation of the National Guard as a preventive action against crime. “While we take the time to…
By Pamela Morales LatinaLista SANTIAGO, CHILE — Some 20 people stood silently in a small, black-walled room staring at a dozen television monitors playing testimonials from torture victims. One woman remembering bleeding from her nose, ears, mouth, vagina and…
By Natalia A. Bonilla-Berrios PUERTO RICO — In two hours, we made $3.3 million dollars. For the first time in the history of Puerto Rico, the government created a benefit radio-telethon to bring aid and hope to the…
By Mayra Beltran de Daetz Guatemala — Lake Atitlan, located in the Department of Solola¡, has one of the most beautiful landscapes found anywhere in Guatemala. Its beauty has been compared with Switzerland’s lakes. Along the margins of…
By Martha Ramos MEXICO CITY: For some strange reason, I happened to hear a David Foster CD and heard a song that touched me so deeply that I couldn’t help but cry: Bridge over troubled waters, sung by Josh…
By Cecilia Mansilla Five years ago on December 30, 2004, the most cruel, unimaginable tragedy to hit Argentina happened when during a rock concert 194 people died. The case is still on trial. ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires is a…
