By Cliff Despres SaludToday Young Latino men born in the U.S. reported experiencing high levels of discrimination, according to a new study. Penn State researchers examined reported discrimination among 1,275 Latinos and 500 whites in Los Angeles County. They…
By Nancy Landa LatinaLista Beatriz is a transgender woman originally from El Salvador, who has made Mexico her new country of residence, not voluntarily as she is unable to return to her country because her life there is in…
By Nancy Landa LatinaLista Migue Ángel Mancera, the head of Mexico’s City government, announced that the city is giving away whistles as part of its strategy to eliminate sexual harassment on public transport. He also explained that this whistle…
By Nancy Landa LatinaLista This week, Mexico became one of the few nations in Latin America and the Caribbean to give a significant boost to LBGTQ rights with a proposed constitutional reform to legalize same-sex marriage across the…
By Nancy Landa LatinaLista There is nothing in life that isn’t political, and the same goes for architecture. For the internationally acclaimed Mexican architect Mauricio Rocha, his buildings stand on the social, political, and artistic pillars that have come…
By Nancy Landa LatinaLista Day after day, for more than 20 years, a generous group of women in Veracruz, Mexico give food to Central American migrants who travel atop the freight train, known as “La Bestia”, bound to…
By Nancy Landa LatinaLista Mare Avertencia Lirika is a Zapotec hip-hop artist from the state of Oaxaca, Mexico who is redefining Rap, a genre that for some is associated with aggression, violence and misogyny. However, for Mare, rap has…
By Nancy Landa LatinaLista The epidemic of gender-based violence in Mexico did not end with Juarez. It continues to threaten the safety and livelihoods of women in most major cities in the country. Six women are murdered…
By Nancy Landa LatinaLista It was on September 3, 2015 that Alberto and his two sisters, Amy and Esther, decided to leave Chiapas, Mexico. For the sisters, it was the first time they had left the town where they…
By Nancy Landa LatinaLista The largest global investigative effort yielded the Panama Papers, offering an unprecedented look at the obscurity of tax havens used by the world’s rich and powerful to hide their wealth. This is the largest…
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 Nancy Landa LatinaLista (Editor’s note: The following post originally appeared on the author’s blog Mundo Citizen.) It has been a busy year and part of the reason for writing sporadically is because activism has become a priority in…
A report brief by OECD, SEP and INEE revealed that intimidation or verbal abuse (bullying) among students is more prevalent in Mexico than among the 34 countries assessed.
By Nancy Landa LatinaLista In 2012, a U.S. Border Patrol agent fired 12 times through the fence that divides the United States with Mexico, killing an unarmed 16-year old Mexican teenager named José Antonio Elena Rodríguez. His tragic…
I thought the hardest part would be surviving one of the worst types of rejection one can experience – the expulsion from the country that I lived most of my life. Even more painful was to arrive to a…
By Nancy Landa LatinaLista Nearly a year ago, the surge of unaccompanied child migrants constantly made the headlines, making it the “new” humanitarian crisis in the North American region. Although the phenomenon of accompanied children was not new, the…
By Nancy Landa LatinaLista Mexico City – Legislators and experts detailed the urgency of approving a reform to the Mexican Foreign Service law that enables the Mexican Consulate offices in the United States to register Mexican children and adults…
By Nancy Landa Mundo Citizen Over the past year, I have engaged in a constant reflection about my experience of deportation from the U.S. and what it has meant for me to rebuild my life in Mexico. I have…
LatinaLista — Anyone who has heard coverage of immigration reform over the last few years has also learned about the efforts of DREAMers, young undocumented students who were brought here to the U.S. as children and now find themselves…
By Nancy Landa Mundo Citizen ‘Where are you from?’ That is a simple question, isn’t it? Well for some of us, the answer is not so straight forward. My experience in London in the past four months has included…
By Nancy Landa Mundo Citizen It seemed like yesterday when I arrived in London ready to begin the academic year in a weather that was surprisingly warmer than I expected. I was eager to develop the ability to look…
By Nancy Landa Mundo Citizen On August 5, I launched a fundraising effort which I named Dreams Without Borders. It is about a dream that had been buried along with many other aspirations for some time. After graduating from…
By Nancy Landa Mundo Citizen I sit still on the chair in the main office lobby waiting to be called in for my job interview. I do my best to maintain a calm and collected demeanor, reminding myself that…
By Nancy Landa Mundo Citizen We are only a few days away from legislation being introduced to formalize the national conversation on solutions to the immigration issue that the U.S. has unaddressed since the Immigration Reform and Control Act…
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…
