The Mexpatriate The notorious leader of Mexico’s National Teachers Union, Elba Esther Gordillo, was arrested at the Toluca airport on Tuesday afternoon (after disembarking from her private jet) and charged with embezzlement of union funds amounting to more than…
General, Guest Voz
Guest Voz: The unnecessary suffering of the ‘lost boys and girls’ of the Americas — in the U.S.
Mar 4, 2013, 12:00 AM 0
By Elizabeth Kennedy LatinaLista (Edtor’s Note: The following is a condensed version of the report “Unnecessary Suffering: Potential Unmet Mental Health Needs of Unaccompanied Alien Children” published in the Feb. 2013 issue of JAMA Pediatrics) Mental illness is one…
Global Views
An open letter from an American expat asking for help for her Mexican neighbor
Feb 25, 2013, 12:10 PM 0
LatinaLista — Dr. Jacqueline Mackenzie is a Latina Lista contributor who shares her stories of what it’s like for an American living in a small town in Guanajuato, Mexico. This morning, she sent the following email. My Dear Amigos…
Local News, Southwest
Broken Dreams – A Look at Two Immigrant Shelters in Reynosa
Feb 15, 2013, 12:00 PM 0
By Bill Rovira Rio Grande Guardian REYNOSA, Mexico – Reynosa is a city of contrasts. Political and business leaders point to more projects, more jobs and increased opportunities for all. A state-of-the-art soccer stadium is soon to be finished…
Videos
Viernes Video: ‘Maria Full of Grace’ producer creates new film promising to turn the immigrant story “upside down”
Feb 15, 2013, 12:00 AM 0
LatinaLista — In his new film The Girl, filmmaker David Riker, producer of Maria Full of Grace and director of La Ciudad, uses the Rio Grande River that separates Laredo, Texas from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico as the setting for…
Global Views
Relatives of Mexico’s Disappeared Continue Fight for Justice With Memorial Museum
Feb 14, 2013, 11:00 AM 0
By Mayela Sanchez Global Press Institute More than 500 people disappeared in the 1960s and 1970s during Mexico’s Dirty War between the government and left-wing student and guerilla groups. Their relatives, led by a group of mothers, created a…
LatinaLista — Three years ago, a collaborative team of Mexican educators, engineers, artists and actors pooled their skills and created a program where they went into rural Mexican communities, lived with the people and taught them basic eco-sustainable practices…
General, Videos
Intrn’l Video: A Mexican Chocolatier on a mission to elevate Mexico’s chocolate in the world
Feb 6, 2013, 12:00 AM 0
LatinaLista — José Ramón Castillo is a chocolatier but not of just any chocolate. Mexican-born and bred, Castillo is the owner of Que Bo!, a Mexican chocolate shop that is ushering in a revolution in how chocolate is made…
LatinaLista — To most people, February 2 is the day before the biggest football match of the season. Yet, for Mexican Americans, whether they know it or not, the day marks a historical milestone — it’s when Mexican American…
Local News, Southwest
Narcolimosnas – alms from drug cartels infect the Mexican Catholic church
Jan 29, 2013, 10:31 AM 0
By Aguirre Gustavo Borderzine EL PASO – The Mexican Navy killed Heriberto Lazcano, “El Lazca,” leader of Los Zetas, one of Mexico’s most feared and violent drug cartels on October 7. He had been connected to some 30,000 murders….
By Adam Isacson and Maureen Meyer Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) Since 2011, WOLA staff have carried out research in six different zones of the U.S.-Mexican border, meeting with U.S. law enforcement officials, human rights and humanitarian groups,…
General, Videos
Intrn’l Video: Tracing the ancient roots of modern-day curandismo
Jan 16, 2013, 12:00 AM 0
LatinaLista — Some people refer to the ancient healers of Mexico as shamans, others call them witch doctors, but the name they are universally known as is curanderos. Curanderos are unique healers because they combine the healing of the…
Palabra Final
U.S. Gov’t’s Denial of Mexican immigrant’s dying wish to see parents is a form of cruelty unworthy of the US
Jan 8, 2013, 6:07 PM 1
LatinaLista — I wonder how much it cost the US government to deny the parents of 26-year-old Maria Sanchez from seeing their daughter as she lay on her deathbed in Houston. Maria (notice the past tense) was undocumented and…
American Dreams
US-educated deportee doesn’t see herself as undocumented but “Citizen of the World”
Jan 7, 2013, 11:26 AM 0
By Nancy Landa MundoCitizen (Editor’s note: Final post in a four-part series focusing on DREAMer Nancy Landa’s first-hand experience of removal proceedings by U.S. Citizens and Immigration Services (USCIS) The holiday season arrived. I sang through Christmas carols as…
Local News, West
Targeted by Mexico’s Deadly Drug Cartels, Journalists at a Tijuana Newsweekly Risk Their Lives to Report the Truth
Jan 7, 2013, 10:34 AM 1
La Prensa San Diego As the Drug War Intensifies, Will the Free Press Be Silenced? In 1980, Jesús Blancornelas and Héctor Félix Miranda founded the Mexican newsweekly Zeta. They intended it to stand as an independent voice, different…
Global Views
New Concerns for President Peña Nieto: Hezbollah’s Rising Profile in Mexico
Dec 28, 2012, 3:38 PM 0
By J.T. Larrimore Council on Hemispheric Affairs A day after Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s inauguration, opposition leaders met with the new leader to sign the “Pact for Mexico”, a bipartisan agreement to increase economic cooperation and improve the…
Art, Culture
Arizona artists ‘bedazzle’ border wall in binational art project
Dec 26, 2012, 4:15 PM 1
LatinaLista — They call themselves the Border Bedazzlers and they have one mission — transform the ugly metal panels of the US-Mexico border wall into colorful art. Spearheaded by Bisbee, Arizona artists Gretchen Baer and Carolyn Toronto, the duo…
General, Videos
Video: Photographer chronicles destructive impact of border wall on Southwest’s rare ecosystems,wildlife and people
Dec 17, 2012, 12:00 AM 1
LatinaLista — It is expected that President Obama will resurrect the issue of immigration reform in the first year of his second term. While he will be proposing to recognize the 11 million undocumented immigrants who have created lives…
By Daniel Higa Alquicira Infosurhoy.com MEXICO CITY – Since he was a child, Luis Alberto Ramos Hernández dreamed of singing and dancing on the world’s biggest stages. But coming from a low-income family in the Colonia Anáhuac of the…
By Shannon K. O’Neil LatIntelligence As President Calderón’s sexenio wraps up tomorrow, he will leave office with a mixed legacy. Many have presented interesting analyses of his policies, but this post looks at concrete numbers—development indicators and the like—to…
By Raul de la Cruz Rio Grande Guardian LAREDO – A former editorial page editor for the Austin American-Statesman has written a blog suggesting U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar would be a good pick for U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. Jesse…
By Nancy Landa MundoCitizen Over the past few months, I have been on a personal vendetta against President Obama for his broken promise on immigration reform and on the record-setting deportations under his administration. There has been very little…
General, Guest Voz
Guest Voz: Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico shares his thoughts on the election and U.S.-Mexico relations
Nov 2, 2012, 3:39 PM 0
LatinaLista — Antonio Garza was the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico under President George W. Bush from 2002-2009. A native Texan and grandson of Mexican immigrants, Ambassador Garza, at the time of his appointment and service was the United States’…
Videos
Video: A Latino poet credits his award-winning works with being “bi-national, bicultural and bilingual”
Nov 1, 2012, 11:47 AM 0
LatinaLista — Francisco X. Alarcón is proud of his Latino roots but even more proud that he speaks two languages and literally grew up both in the United States and Mexico. Alarcón was born in California but grew up…
Local News, Southwest
Commentary: Mexico’s new administration needs to make border security a priority
Oct 26, 2012, 9:59 AM 0
By Nelson Balido Rio Grande Guardian SAN ANTONIO – A study released earlier this year by the Pew Hispanic Center caught my attention, and its findings might require observers of U.S.-Mexico relations to recalibrate their thinking. According to Pew…
