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…
LatinaLista — Maybe it was the fact that the Arizona senate passed SB 1070 and are only waiting for Arizona Governor Brewer to sign it into law — or do nothing and have it pass into law anyway. Or…
LatinaLista — Who worries about lead poisoning these days? Evidently not many people. Otherwise, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) wouldn’t have joined forces with the Ad Council and…
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…
LatinaLista — On this 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing when we all should be remembering that hatred has no place in a civilized society, we are confronted with the reality that hatred exists to an even greater…
LatinaLista — Even the volcanic ash that is wreaking havoc across half the globe can’t shut down an international dialogue that is increasingly important in today’s world — gender justice. Originally scheduled to start today, the International Gender Justice…
By Diana Arevalo La Prensa SAN ANTONIO — Janie Lopez is a Latina powerhouse who is leading a youth movement in San Antonio. As the Chair of the San Antonio Youth Summit, Lopez bringing together 1,500 San Antonio high…
LatinaLista Reading is a skill that most people have to some degree, but remembering what we read is an ability that not everyone is blessed with. Whether it’s a grocery list or the all-important information for an exam, memorizing…
LatinaLista — It’s often said that the most vulnerable of the population are its children. While that is true, it’s also true that a close second for that title are senior citizens. When language and cultural differences are thrown…
LatinaLista — Researchers and policy experts have long known that low-skilled undocumented immigrant workers impacted the job prospects of native low-skilled workers, notably blacks. In the past, this competition for jobs between the two groups has contributed to what…
LatinaLista — One of the most creative movies about Latinos to ever come out of Hollywood was the 2004 film “A Day Without a Mexican.” The premise of the story was all the Mexicans in the state of California…
By GRISELDA NEVAREZ Cronkite News Service PHOENIX — Dozens of people rallying Wednesday at the State Capitol urged Gov. Jan Brewer to veto a bill that would require local law enforcement to assist in enforcing federal immigration law. The…
LatinaLista — It wasn’t that long ago that Honduras dominated world headlines due to the country’s political turmoil, and remains in the spotlight because of the increase in violence and murders of journalists. Yet there is another story in…
LatinaLista — The minute Sen. Reid uttered the statement this morning “We won’t get to immigration reform this work period,” the mainstream news sites couldn’t wait to announce that the Nevada Sen. had “backpedaled” on his promise to the…
LatinaLista — One of the major arguments for the immediate necessity of passing comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) is the fact that current policy is separating families. U.S.-born children are left behind when an undocumented parent(s) is/are captured and deported….
LatinaLista — For too long in the medical community, it’s been believed that when it comes to meeting the health needs of women, a “one-size-fits-all approach” suffices. Though Latinas, as most women, instinctively knew that philosophy was just plain…
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…
LatinaLista– While his wife is busy trying to diffuse one global crisis after another, former President Bill Clinton has been busy, among other things, with doing his part to find longterm solutions to a variety of global crises, through…
LatinaLista — Everybody needs to start somewhere. La Alianza Hispana (LAH), Inc. of Greater Boston strives to do that for their local Latino community. Begun in 1968 by Ana Maria Rodriguez, a teacher of English as a second language…
LatinaLista — Rumors are running rampant across the country as to the fate of immigration reform in this legislative season. Will another Republican Senator sign on to the Schumer/Graham bill? How committed are Democrats to the issue? Would there…
LatinaLista — “According to Ernie Allen, president and CEO of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), about 800,000 children are reported missing every year. Of that total 58,000 are abducted by non-family members and 200,000 are…
LatinaLista– Yesterday, Sam Bonilla, the Dodge City, Kansas man on trial for shooting and killing a man he claimed was trying to attack him was sentenced to the maximum sentence of 74 months. In following this story, and presenting…
LatinaLista — In February, the Justice Dept. released their annual National Drug Threat Assessment. Unfortunately, few media outlets paid much attention to it. Maybe because it was so lengthy or it could be because it was so disturbing in…
LatinaLista — It never made a whole lot of sense that while more Latinas aspired, went and graduated from college than their male counterparts, they still had the dubious distinction of ranking the highest among all girls when it…
LatinaLista — When it comes to higher education, Latinos always seem to lag behind the pack. Recent reports reveal that only 10 percent of Latinos have earned a bachelor’s degree, while Latinas are outpacing Latinos in college enrollment. This…
