By Pablo Jaime Sáinz La Prensa San Diego In 1969, a group of immigrant women got together to try to bring quality health care service to the underserved community of San Ysidro. Their dream was to make health care…
By Diana Duarte MADRE We often hear the claim that the only way to improve healthcare, at home and around the world, is through free trade, privatization, and corporate deregulation. Yet Cuba demonstrates that high standards of health and…
By Selene Soria Borderzine EL PASO – When the pain from my wisdom teeth became unbearable my mother took me to the dentist who he told me I had to see a surgeon to get an extraction. I went…
LatinaLista — Whenever citing areas where Latinos lack “responsibility,” healthcare is always mentioned. Whether it’s women not getting mammograms, men not going for check-ups, diabetics not following through with treatment, families not eating nutritiously and on and on, Latinos…
LatinaLista — In 1975, a six-year-old girl named Virginia Garcia cut her foot in Oregon, where the girl’s farmworker family had come from their home in Mission, Texas to harvest the local produce. Speaking little English and having no…
LatinaLista — A strange little press conference was held this afternoon in the Senate Print Gallery on Capitol Hill. It was led by Senator Carl Levin, Chair of the Armed Services Committee and Senator Claire McCaskill, Chair of the…
LatinaLista — The signing into law of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by President Obama is a good thing — because for the first time in our nation’s history there is a law that makes all Americans…
LatinaLista– The unexpected statement from the President arrived late this afternoon. It was short and to the point: Statement by the President Praising the Bipartisan Immigration Reform Framework In June, I met with members of both parties, and assigned…
LatinaLista — For some reason, the United Kingdom newspaper, the Guardian, is running a two-day poll on their online site asking their readers to vote on who gave the “best performance” in President Obama’s healthcare summit today. So far,…
By Ivan Marte Ivan Marte is the former Chairman of the Rhode Island GOP Hispanic Assembly and is currently a member of the Cranston Diversity Committee in the State of Rhode Island. Disliking the tone and direction…
LatinaLista — As the presidential debate deepens, or gets more desperate, it won’t be surprising to hear more and more candidates who are scared of the immigration issue spouting off just plain WRONG information. What’s sad is that they…
