House of Mexico has new fundraising date for construction
Organizers have until December to raise enough money to start construction on a House of Mexico in Balboa Park before construction permits expire.
The House of Mexico nonprofit is one of 34 organizations representing countries,...
El problema de la contaminación en San Ysidro (inglés)
San Ysidro has an air-pollution problem.
The small, predominantly low-income and Latino community is perched at the world’s busiest land border crossing – and all that border traffic is causing some problems.
In 2017, roughly 13.8...
El español, no el inglés, es el idioma más americano y lo ha sido...
Is it dangerous to speak Spanish in public in Trump's America? Well, sí! Just this month, we've seen a lawyer threaten to call ICE after he overheard people in a restaurant in Manhattan speak in...
Hispanic Poverty Rate Hit an All-Time Low in 2017
The poverty rate declined overall in 2017 but the rate among Hispanics had one of the largest year-to-year drops across demographic groups and was the lowest since poverty estimates for Hispanics were first published...
The Democratic Candidates Did Nothing To Appeal To Hispanic Voters
Perhaps the most notable feature of the Democratic presidential debate in Houston on Thursday was what the candidates did not say about Latin America, immigration, asylum and border security. This was in stark contrast...
Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Roma’ is considered one the best films of the year. Here’s why
Plenty of filmmakers have made personal films, but not many have gone to the lengths Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón did to recreate his family home from childhood for his latest movie, “Roma.”
But “Roma” is...
Mientras damos la bienvenida a madres y niños, la Patrulla Fronteriza cierra la...
Since 2013, the Border Angels has convinced the border patrol (previous local chiefs Beeson and Barlow) six times to open "the door of hope" at Friendship Park.
However, this past weekend, Local Border Patrol chief Rodney Scott...
Tijuana and Puebla benefited most from earnings sent from abroad last year
Residents of Tijuana, Baja California, received more money in remittances sent home by Mexicans living abroad in 2019 that those of any other municipality, according to a report by the bank BBVA.
Completed by the...
El drama ‘Starz ‘Vida’ pretende destruir los estereotipos mexicanos de TV (inglés)
https://youtu.be/c0ttPSaqhF0
Mexican-Americans are often portrayed as stereotypes on TV, but the new Starz show “Vida” aims to change that.
“What attracted me to the project was having Latin characters at the forefront and having them not...
A Estados Unidos le encanta vilipendiar y deshumanizar a los mexicanos, a pesar de...
We've been here before. America has had a love-hate relationship with its Mexican population for centuries. Whether it is not being able to find a permanent solution to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), separating immigrant...
Instead of a wall, what if we built an energy corridor?
Instead of a wall, build a first-of-its-kind energy park that spans the 1,954 miles of the border between the United States and Mexico to bring energy, water, jobs and border security to the region.
That's...
Amid growing coronavirus threat, Mexico’s president says he’s putting trust in good-luck charms
In recent weeks, as Mexico’s neighbors to the north and south have restricted air travel and closed schools and businesses to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has nonchalantly portrayed his country as...
