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Rosario Ibarra, Mexico’s champion of the disappeared, dies at 95
The world mourns the loss of a tirelessly brave advocate for human rights. By Maria Verza | LA Times | APR. 18, 2022 | Photo by Marco Ugarte MEXICO CITY — Rosario Ibarra, whose long struggle to learn the fate of her disappeared son helped develop Mexico’s human rights movement and ... -
L.A. County’s sheriff has a strange obsession with how much media coverage Black people get
Part Two of a three-part series by acclaimed local author, offering hard facts about the scoundrel sheriff who relies on racial profiling of his own people and well-known internal gang activity within the LA County Sheriff's Department. By Gustavo Arellano | LA Times | MAR 24, 2022 | Photo by ... -
North Long Beach welcomes the Ronald R. Arias Health Equity Center
New Community Health Equity Center in North Long Beach is named for a tireless Chicano advocate of more than 50 years. By Harry Saltzgaver | Long Beach Press-Telegram | APR. 4, 2022 | Photo provided by the Arias Family A $5 million upgrade and a new name had city officials ... -
Biden weighs phased out end of Trump-era deportation policy
The administration is looking at an end to Title 42 that could prioritize families first. By Laura Barron-Lopez, Sarah Ferris and Adam Cancryn | POLITICO | MAR. 30, 2022 | Photo by Eugene Garcia for AP The White House is planning to revoke a Trump-era deportation policy for migrants arriving ... -
Biden expected to end Title 42 border expulsion policy in late May
Trump-era policy could soon meet the same fate as its odious creator. By Camilo Montoya-Galvez & Ed O'Keefe | CBS News | MAR. 30, 2022 | Photo by Salwan Georges for Getty The Biden administration is planning to end a pandemic-era emergency rule known as Title 42 that allows U.S. immigration authorities ... -
Commentary: In ‘Alma’ and ‘Apartment Living,’ kitchen-sink realism returns to the theater L.A.-style
Theater Review: "Black, Mexican American and Filipino American, they are fighting against the odds for a sliver of the American dream." By Charles McNulty | LA Times | MAR. 25, 2022 | Photo by Jenny Graham Kitchen-sink drama, the genre that brought social realism to the stage in a clatter ... -
Op-Ed: A glaring double standard — one for Ukrainian refugees, one for Central Americans
"The double standard in the media’s portrayal of the Ukrainian refugees in Europe compared with the images of Haitian, Central American and Mexican migrants at the Mexican border was obvious to everyone..." By Nikolai Ingistov-Garcia | LA Times | MAR. 20, 2022 | Photo by Wally Skalij I opened my ... -
Column: Will L.A. City Council get its own ‘Squad’?
This young Latina running for District 9 hopes so. By Jean Guerrero | LATimes | March 4, 2022 | Photo credit: Madeleine Hordinski In a recent TikTok video, Dulce Vasquez, 36, smirks as she listens to Donald Trump announcing his first presidential campaign: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best.” Vasquez, ... -
Remittances kick off the year with a 20% increase
But they were under US $4 billion for the first time in 8 months. By Staff writer | Mexico Daily News | MAR. 2 | Photo credit: AP Remittance payments topped a landmark US $50 billion in 2021 and continued that strong performance in January. The Bank of México reported ... -
Mexican teen develops app to help deaf sister communicate
An estimated 4.6 million Mexicans are deaf or hard-of-hearing. By Kylie Madry | Reuters | JAN. 5, 2022 | Photo credit: Luis Cortes NEZAHUALCOYOTL, Mexico, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Estrella Salazar, a 17-year-old science whiz from a working-class town near Mexico City, was inspired by her sister to develop an ...
