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Buried Abuse

Over a ten-month period, Latino USA partnered with Rewire.News on the story of one woman’s alleged sexual abuse.

  • Mar 8, 2019
  • 4:50 PM

Ivy Queen’s Feminist Reggaeton Anthem ‘Quiero Bailar’ Has Been Reimagined by a Women-Led Engineering Team

“It’s my job as a leading female to make sure they are given a chance,” said Ivy Queen.

  • Mar 8, 2019
  • 2:57 PM

Latinx Drag Queen Posts GRWM Video at Border Wall

“He is making up all of these lies of a huge border crisis and makes it seem like we are living in these times of war. There was nothing going on at the border. I was hanging out doing my makeup,” Lushious Massacr said.

  • Mar 8, 2019
  • 2:00 PM

US Officials Tracked Activists, Journalists Linked to Migrant Caravan

The database was a part of “Operation Secure Line,” an attempt to collect information on the group of thousands who came to the U.S. last year seeking asylum.

  • Mar 8, 2019
  • 12:57 PM

NALEO Educational Fund Comments on US Census Bureau Request for Citizenship Data from the Department of Homeland Security

“It is time for Congress to act and provide Latinos and all Americans with the clarity and safety they need to participate in the 2020 Census by removing the citizenship question once and for all,” CEO Arturo Vargas said.

  • Mar 8, 2019
  • 11:12 AM

The Wall Is Here: Fighting Everyday Racism, Hate at Work (OPINION)

I heard something I did not expect to hear from a patient as part of my bedside care.

  • Mar 8, 2019
  • 10:22 AM

Border Angels Responds to Government Tracking of Activists and Journalists

Here on the militarized frontier, organizations like Border Angels, Al Otro Lado, human rights supporters and the journalists who come here to document history have been spied on.

  • Mar 8, 2019
  • 9:54 AM

Three Women Imprisoned Under El Salvador’s Abortion Ban Released

Alba Lorena Rodríguez, María del Tránsito Orellana and Cinthia Marcela Rodríguez served a combined 29 years in prison as a result of extreme abortion ban.

  • Mar 7, 2019
  • 5:55 PM

Brazil and Venezuela Clash Over Migrants, Humanitarian Aid and Closed Borders

Relations between the two countries are deteriorating fast, too.

  • Mar 7, 2019
  • 10:03 AM

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Announces Immigration Principles

These was released the same day there were four simultaneous congressional hearings on immigration.

  • Mar 7, 2019
  • 9:20 AM

Knowing a Deportee Is Associated With Developmental Disorders in Latina/o Children

Our findings show that respondents who know a deportee are 2.4 times more likely to report that their child has been referred or diagnosed with a developmental disorder.

  • Mar 7, 2019
  • 9:04 AM

Bolsonaro Tweets Obscene Carnival Video, Criticizes Festivities

This year, Brazilian Carnival partygoers openly criticized what they feel are the president’s homophobic and racist policies.

  • Mar 7, 2019
  • 8:51 AM

Anti-Bolsonaro Chant Becomes Brazil’s Carnival No. 1 Hit

The hashtag, in Portuguese, is #EiBolsonaroVaiTomarNoCu.

  • Mar 6, 2019
  • 2:56 PM

Bolivia Launches New Public Healthcare Program Amid Strikes

The Medical Association of Bolivia plans to resume strikes against the lack of infrastructure and personnel to sustain the measure.

  • Mar 6, 2019
  • 11:51 AM

Congressional Testimony of New Mexico DREAMer Yazmin Irazoqui Ruiz About DACA

“Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I come before you today as the PRODUCT of my community. So protecting me in exchange for increased danger for my community is not protection at all,” Yazmin Irazoqui Ruiz said.

  • Mar 6, 2019
  • 11:49 AM

What the Head of the TPS Alliance Submitted to a Congressional Committee in Washington

“I also would like you to know why the term ‘temporary’ is no longer an appropriate term or category for our communities across the nation. We have given the best years of our lives in this country,” José Palma wrote in his remarks.

  • Mar 6, 2019
  • 11:04 AM

Moms Celebrate That JPMorgan Chase Will No Longer ‘Bank the Private Prison Industry’

“Seventy-one percent of the average daily population in ICE custody are held in privately operated jails, many with documented histories of human rights abuses.”

  • Mar 6, 2019
  • 10:27 AM

Stories From El Salvador: Aunt Lidia

She disappeared during the civil war and never returned.

  • Mar 6, 2019
  • 9:52 AM

iLe’s Newest Song ‘Temes’ Confronts Machismo Straight On

Why are so you afraid of me? 

  • Mar 5, 2019
  • 4:01 PM

NABJ Elevates CNN to Special Media Monitoring List

“A special team will perform further research and an analysis of CNN’s diversity, inclusion and equity practices, per the NABJ Board’s directive.”

  • Mar 5, 2019
  • 2:56 PM

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