LatinaLista — Campaign: The English Kit English language ability is extremely important to El Salvador’s economy. There is a huge call center industry, which provides fluent speakers the opportunity to earn over 3 times the country’s minimum wage. Tourism…
LatinaLista — Indigenous people have long been considered the caretakers of the planet. Traditions are passed from generation to generation on exactly how to care for Mother Earth. Until recently, those traditions have not been widely shared with the…
LatinaLista — The one stereotype about Latinos that is true to the core is how family members care for one another. There’s no greater example of that truth than in the film Strike One. According to the film’s website,…
By Lisette Escobedo Moms Clean Air Force As a hard-working single mother of a five year old, I am deeply concerned by environmental issues that impact my daughter’s well-being, such as carbon pollution. The damage we have caused our…
By Kent Patterson Frontera NorteSur It was one of those splendid cruises up Highway 26 and around the Mesilla Valley south of Las Cruces, New Mexico. A hot summer day and Mexican radio 106.7 FM from Ciudad Juarez was…
LatinaLista — Campaign: HipGIVE: Un camino hacia la ciencia: por las jóvenes indígenas de Chiapas (A road towards science for the indigenous youth of Chiapas) Chiapas is a state in the Southwest of Mexico and one of the poorest…
By Eileen Truax Trans-Border Institute Close to 500,000 young people from Mexican families have been deported from the United States during the last 10 years. Whether their deportation was forceful or voluntary, they return to Mexico to find that…
By Patricia E Grieve The Conversation In 1492, the Spanish Inquisition forced Jews to convert to Christianity or to leave the Iberian peninsula – on pain of death. Some five centuries later, in June 2015, the Spanish Parliament invited…
By Bill Sarno CTLatinoNews.com Three Connecticut cities with large Latino populations, three primary races and three prominent Latino officeholders, all Democrats, challenging candidates who bear the local party machinery’s seal of approval that they were denied. That is the…
By Obed Manuel LatinaLista GOP frontrunner Donald Trump caught the headlines again. What else is new these past few weeks? But this time he may have gone too far. At an Iowa press conference, Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos,…
LatinaLista — Campaign: ÚNETE AL PROYECTO ‘YO SOBREVIVÍ’ Who knows about the war in Colombia? Citizens? Justice orgs? Media? Armed groups? To date, information on this topic is scattered and inaccurate. This is why the project “Rutas del Conflicto”…
By Farah Z. Ahmad and Tiffany D. Miller Center for American Progress Today’s students will be tomorrow’s workers. As such, high student achievement is the benchmark, not only for an individual’s prosperity, but also for the prosperity of the…
LatinaLista — Barely 25 years old, Maritza Soto made history recently when she discovered a new planet. The young Chilean astronomer, who is working on her PhD in Science, at the University of Chile, knows that not many Chilean…
By Elizabeth Clarke Juvenile Justice Information Exchange The other night my grandson, who is 8 years old, came over for dinner. It was one of those perfect summer evenings, warm with a slight breeze, and we decided to walk…
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian HARLINGEN , RGV – Elected officials who signed the BiNED agreement says their focus on bringing advanced manufacturing to the region is a better bet than pumping more and more money into border…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Help Alabama Immigrants get to Southern Conference The Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ACIJ) has been on the front lines of immigrant rights organizing in Alabama since 2006. ACIJ successfully fought back against the harshest anti-immigrant…
By Adriaan Alsema Colombia Reports Colombia’s Ombudsman’s Office has sued the governor of the country’s poorest province in order to prevent the governor from taking action that would leave 77,700 children without school food. The governor provisionally suspended a…
By Jessica Buterbaugh Futurity Two-year-olds who know lots of words are more likely to start kindergarten ready to read, to do math, and to pay attention, a new study suggests. Previous research has shown that children who are doing…
By Sarina Prabasi LatinaLista On my first visit to Nicaragua, I was astonished by its beauty. I was headed to one of the most geographically and culturally isolated parts of the country, situated along the Miskito Coast. The marine…
By Alex V. Hernandez EXTRA! There was a row of about 50 cars parked on half mile the stretch of Sacramento Avenue that sits next to Cook County Jail last Saturday. There were a few white cars but the…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Funding 24 At-Risk Young Women to Learn Filmmaking Mythic Bridge is a 4-year old, NYC-based, 501(c)3 non-profit that provides free filmmaking workshops to at-risk youth, aged 13-24. Guided by a community of dedicated volunteer film professionals…
LatinaLista — PEN International is sounding the alarm for a young Honduran writer and student leader who has been targeted with intimidations and threats by his university administration because he participated in campus protests. Cesario Padilla, a journalism graduate…
By Jamesha Gibson Preservation Nation Preservationists know how difficult it is not only to protect, but also interpret cultural landscapes that are in highly vulnerable or frequently transitioning circumstances. Asma Jaber and her fiancé Sami Jitan saw the extent…
By Jose Arredondo La Prensa Google Fiber’s ultra fast internet makes its way to the fast-growing city of San Antonio, Texas. Mayor Ivy Taylor made the googly-announcement this past Wednesday. This fairly new internet service is said to bring…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Reopen the ‘hogar comunitario’ After an amazing experience last year working as a volunteer in Nepal, Irene López Gutiérrez decided to repeat it this summer. She organized a trip to Guatemala – Parramos, in the region…
