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 — If having the biggest rates of childhood obesity and diabetes weren’t enough, now low-income Latinos and African Americans have something else to worry about — not getting enough Vitamin D. Vitamin D is an invisible benefit from…
LatinaLista — In remembering the birthday of Cesar Chavez, one of the most famous Latino civil rights activists of the 20th Century, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis reveals in her blog post the role Chavez played as an environmentalist…
LatinaLista — Eating healthy is all the rage these days in light of the exploding rates of obesity occurring across the nation. As anyone knows, eating healthy doesn’t just mean throwing less salt on our mashed potatoes or ripping…
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…
LatinaLista — It’s being reported by relief workers in Haiti that the lack of clean water and proper sewage could prove to be even more devastating than the initial earthquake. The lack of both of these essentials could cause…
LatinaLista — A day hasn’t gone by lately when Juarez, Mexico isn’t in the news. The latest sad tale to come from Mexico’s most violent city, and the most violent city in the world outside a war zone, is…
By Johnny Hernandez La Prensa “This is the spark that the city needs to embrace solar energy,” said San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, as he announced Thursday that the State Energy Conservation Office has invested more than $3 million…
LatinaLista — Child abuse seems to be in the headlines more and more every day. Whether it’s due to parents under stress from a bad economy or the fact that some people have no business being parents, the bottom…
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…
LatinaLista — Laredo, Texas is known for being on the frontlines of national security when it comes to border enforcement. The Border Patrol is ever vigilant about who and what gets across our shared border with Mexico. Yet the,…
LatinaLista — Peace. It’s more than a word. To some it’s an elusive concept, but to others it’s an achievable reality. Peace doesn’t just mean eradicating wars but eradicating violence, even at the most basic level — in communities….
LatinaLista — There’s no industry in this country probably more dependent on immigrant labor than the agricultural industry. Latinos, both legal and undocumented, make up the bulk of workers who pick this nation’s fruits and vegetables. It’s the one…
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…
LatinaLista — A new national study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds, reinforced what too many Latino and black families already knew — our children spend way too much time…
LatinaLista — A sad and all too often ignored fact is that the people who are on the frontline of Corporate America’s environmental abuses are low-income and/or minority neighborhoods. In 2001, residents of the Commerce/East Los Angeles area were…
By Johnny Hernandez La Prensa de San Antonio.- With the much rain the city has received since September, Bexar County has lifted the fireworks burn ban, but residents need to remember that it is still illegal and dangerous to…
LatinaLista — Critics of No More Deaths’ volunteer Walt Staton say the 27-year-old web designer, theology student and human rights advocate has to go to jail because he broke the law. In June 2009, Staton was convicted for littering…
When newspapers cut their foreign news bureaus, they did more than just save themselves a few extra bucks — they created a vacuum for news happening outside the United States. One of the casualties is news of an ongoing…
LatinaLista — On this day, when so many dignitaries assemble in Germany toasting the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, it seems hypocritical that our country’s leaders can’t see that we are repeating what was considered…
By Johnny Hernandez SOUTH TEXAS — It’s kind of interesting and ironic that as you turn off the main highway leading to this subdivision, there’s a sign out there that reads, ‘Welcome to Sweet Water Estates…country living at its…
LatinaLista — The American Psychological Association (APA) released their annual Stress in America survey and the findings are not good for Latino adults. Of all adults, Latinos are recorded as experiencing the highest levels of stress. Fifty percent of…
By CHRYSTALL KANYUCK Cronkite News Service PHOENIX (Thursday, Oct. 8) _ The environmental movement has been dominated by upper-class whites even though the people most affected by environmental contamination and other such problems have been ethnic minorities and the…
By Rep. Ben Ray Lujan New Mexico Rep. Ben Ray Luján is a strong advocate for clean energy and chairs the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Task Force on Green Economy and Renewable Energy. Hailing from the Land of Enchantment, Rep….
By ALEXANDER MacLEAN Cronkite News Service PHOENIX (Thursday, Sept. 24) _ A new study suggesting that human activities are nearing or exceeding the boundaries of Earth’s ability to sustain life as we know it has special significance in the…
