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New opportunity for Cuban students in Mexico: UNAM opens headquarters at the University of Havana
Mexican universities have become an escape route for many Cuban students who choose to get a scholarship from the government of Mexico to study postgraduate studies. Story and Photo by Periodico Cubano | JUN. 25, 2023 Cuban university students will have a new opportunity to travel to Mexico in academic ... -
Mexico's Sheinbaum leads race for ruling party presidential ticket-poll
By Natalia Siniawski | Reuters/NASDAQ | JUN. 28, 2023 | Photo by Henry Romero MEXICO CITY, June 28 (Reuters) - Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has a lead of more than 10 percentage points in the contest to be the candidate of Mexico's ruling party for the 2024 presidential election, a ... -
AMLO appoints Luisa María Alcalde Lujan Secretary of the Interior
Luisa María Alcalde Luján was appointed as Secretary of the Interior by AMLO, recognizing that generational replacement is needed. By Emmanuel Carrillo | Forbes Mexico | JUN. 19, 2023 | Photo courtesy of MX Presidency President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Monday appointed Luisa María Alcalde Luján as the new ... -
Harvard University awards honorary doctorate to Oaxacan founder of Radio Bilingüe
He is the first Latino in the United States and Mexican indigenous to receive this recognition; before him he was received by Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes. By Araceli Martinez Ortega | La Opinon (translation by Google) | JUN. 6, 2023 | Photo courtesy of Harvard Univ. At 74 years ... -
A shortage of bilingual teachers threatens goal for a multilingual California
By The Times Editorial Board | Los Angeles Times | JUN. 26, 2023 | Photo by Allen J. Schaben Five years ago, the California Department of Education set a goal that half of K-12 students would be literate in at least two languages by 2030, and three-fourths by 2040, to ... -
What is the Wagner Group, the Russian mercenary outfit led by Yevgeniy Prigozhin?
By Miriam Berger & Adam Taylor | The Washington Post | JUN. 27, 2023 | Photo by AP The head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, has been exiled to Belarus after calling off his stunning but short-lived mutiny against Russia’s military leadership on Saturday, according to the Kremlin. ... -
Democrats call for DACA health care expansion
By Rafael Bernal | The Hill | JUN. 23, 2023 | Photo by Carolyn Kaster A group of 80 Democratic lawmakers is calling on the Biden administration to implement a proposal to expand access to federal health care benefits for people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. In a ... -
Supreme Court Allows Biden to Limit Immigration Arrests
Policy restricts arrests of undocumented immigrants to those deemed a threat to public safety or national security. Story & photo by Boundless Immigration | JUN. 23, 2023 The U.S. Supreme Court revived a Biden administration policy that restricts arrests of undocumented immigrants to those deemed a threat to public safety ... -
DACA Recipients Are Under Attack Once Again
Two recent legal challenges have placed more than 600,000 undocumented in danger of losing the only home they have known. By Michelle Alejandra Silva | The Progressive Magazine | JUN. 22, 2023 | Photo by Getty Images As I read the headlines surrounding the still uncertain future of the Deferred ... -
Johanna Carbajal’s journey from lockup to law studies at UCLA
After years of foster care and incarceration, the single mom found her calling — and a welcoming space on campus. She hopes UCLA continues to embrace others like her. By Madeline Adamo | UCLA Newsroom | JUN. 15, 2023 | Photo by David Esquivel The makeup didn’t entirely cover things ...
