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Trump V. Babies: The Battle Over Birthright Citizenship
2025/06/08
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“I'm waiting for my baby with the greatest love in the world, but with all these problems.”
Latino USA spoke with a pregnant Venezuelan woman who is part of a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s efforts to end birthright citizenship. This month, the Supreme Court is expected to weigh in on whether Trump can deny the baby’s constitutional right. This massive shift in our constitution would change a baby’s life, and leave some stateless.
Latino USA is the longest-running news and culture radio program in the U.S., centering Latino stories and hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa.
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Selena Was the Queen of Tejano, Johnny Canales Was the King
2025/06/06
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Long before Latin music ruled the airwaves and charts, Tejano was king… and there was one man at the center of it all: Johnny Canales.
His impact on the music industry is undeniable. Johnny helped Selena Quintanilla skyrocket to success and he helped make many other Tejano artists highly visible.
In this episode, Maria Hinojosa sits down with Adrian Arredondo and Myrna Perez, the directors of “Take It Away: The Rise and Fall of Tejano Hollywood,” a new documentary that looks at the life of Canales and his legacy.
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Frank’s 'Revolutionary' Queer Quince at 30
2025/06/01
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This Pride Month, come celebrate Frank's big day.
As a young boy, Frank Rojas watched his older sister shine at her quinceañera. He secretly longed for a celebration of his own, but knew that these coming of age parties were only for girls.
Now, two decades later, the culture has changed and more boys are having their own quiceañeros. So Frank is throwing himself a double quince on his 30th birthday. On his own terms, but not without hesitation.
Come to Frank’s party to celebrate his big day. A day when he will be unapologetically queer, when he’ll blend his queer family with his blood family, and when he’ll get his own sparkle.
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Tennessee’s Push to Punish Kids as Adults
2025/05/30
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After the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences for juveniles were unconstitutional, a flurry of re-sentencings followed across the country. But for juvenile lifers in Tennessee, it was like nothing happened. What followed were several legal battles, culminating in a Tennessee Supreme Court decision that ultimately ruled the state’s sentencing unconstitutional. The Republican-led state legislature responded by proposing a torrent of “tough on crime” bills aimed at juveniles. We head to Tennessee, where we explore a recent push to funnel more children into the adult prison system.
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'I'm a Political Prisoner': From Church Sanctuaries to ICE Detention
2025/05/25
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“I am a political prisoner,” Jeanette Vizguerra said in an exclusive interview from inside a detention facility. She’s been a symbol of resistance for the immigrants rights movement since 2017 when she was recognized as one of Time’s 100 most influential people, after seeking sanctuary in a church to avoid deportation.
She remained an outspoken activist and in March 2025 she was detained by ICE.
In this episode we also hear from others who took sanctuary years ago, but unlike Jeanette, want to remain in the shadows fearing retaliation. What is sanctuary now that churches are no longer protected?
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Doctora Polo: 'This Is Who I Am'
2025/05/23
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If some Latinos hear la doctora, it doesn’t evoke the image of a medical doctor. Instead, it’s that of a Cuban American attorney-turned-show host who sings her own theme song.
In 2001, Doctora Polo had been practicing family law for over 20 years in Miami when she was hired to host a new court show on Telemundo that would later become Caso Cerrado. It often aired for multiple hours a day on Telemundo and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy.
In this episode of Latino USA, Doctora Polo reflects on her role as a Latina entertainer and the phenomenon of Caso Cerrado in Latinx pop culture.
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My Faja Saved Me
2025/05/18
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Two years ago, 18-year-old Lisbeth Bencosme was shot four times on a sidewalk in Harlem. She was a new mom at the time, and it was her faja, a staple postpartum girdle for many Latinas, that would keep her alive until medics arrived. In this episode, we meet Lisbeth, a true badass New Yorker who takes us on her path healing from gun violence and postpartum depression, in a country where there’s little support for either.
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'I Am a Dutchirican': Puerto Ricans in Pennsylvania Dutch Country
2025/05/16
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After World War II, Puerto Ricans began settling in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, drawn by economic opportunities among Mennonite farming communities. Several generations later, they’re honoring their history and reclaiming their identity as “Dutchiricans” within the Mennonite church—and beyond.
Today, the story of a Dutchirican matriarch —from her family’s migration from Puerto Rico to their adoption of the Mennonite faith— and how spirituality, work, and resilience forged a new cultural identity.
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New Pope: From Chicago to Chiclayo
2025/05/11
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In the news this week: Pope Leo XIV, or Papa León 14, has been selected to lead the Catholic Church and its 1.4 billion congregation worldwide. And on his first moment in a global spotlight, he chose to speak… Spanish.
Robert Francis Prevost was born in Chicago but spent most of his life as a missionary and bishop in Peru, where he has citizenship. He’s the first-ever pope from the U.S. and the second from the Americas, which made him an unexpected choice.
Chicago is claiming him, of course, but to Peruvians and Peruvian-Americans, he’s Peruvian. Period. Listen to the latest with reactions from our listeners.
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I’m Not Dead
2025/05/09
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In the early 70s, Miguel Angel Villavicencio was focused on making his most ambitious dream possible: to become a famous singer in Bolivia and across the world. And he was halfway there—his love songs were on the radio and he was appearing on TV. But to take his singing career truly international, he needed money. So he decided to work for Bolivia’s most powerful drug cartel in the 80s—a major supplier for Pablo Escobar. Choosing this path would lead him on a journey of self-destruction, unexpected betrayal and finally, redemption.
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Venezuelans, 'The Most Vulnerable Diaspora,’ Fight Back
2025/05/04
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The National TPS Alliance and seven plaintiffs, including Temporary Protected Status holder Cecilia González, recently sued the Trump administration for illegally terminating TPS for about 600,000 Venezuelans. Though a federal judge temporarily blocked the termination, the legal fight to defend the status, and to advocate for long-term immigration reform, continues.
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Francisco: The Legacy of the First Latin American Pope
2025/05/02
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Pope Francis, history’s only Latin American pope, died on April 21st. As the cardinals of the world set to choose a new leader, we look back on Francisco's papacy, his most praised achievements and his most criticized shortcomings. Plus, how his leadership may influence the church for years to come. Guest host Fernanda Echavarri speaks with professor and feminist theologian Natalia Imperatori-Lee and Argentinian-American journalist Antonia Cerejido. Together, they offer different perspectives to Francisco's legacy.
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'We Are in a Constitutional Crisis': A Mega Prison and What's at Stake
2025/04/27
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What began as an ordinary traffic stop for Kilmar Abrego Garcia escalated into a nightmare at the center of a Supreme Court decision. The immigrant Maryland father was deported to El Salvador’s mega prison because of an “administrative error.” But even at the Supreme Court’s direction, the Trump administration has still not brought Kilmar back.
This case has tipped the scales: “We are in a moment of constitutional crisis.”
We break down what this case means and also bring you exclusive reporting about a Venezuelan man with no criminal record who was taken simply because of his tattoos.
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Suave: Parole & the Pursuit of Happiness
2025/04/25
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This week, Latino USA shares episode 2 of Suave: Season 2 .
Suave can’t drink. He can’t smoke weed. He can’t travel. He can’t visit old prison friends, or basically have any interaction with the police. And that’s because even though he’s free, he’s on parole for a lifetime. In other words, he’s just serving his prison sentence on the outside. Sometimes all these rules make Suave ask himself, “Will I ever really be free?”
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Suave: Roses and Manure
2025/04/20
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This week, Latino USA shares episode 1 of Suave: Season 2 .
Years have passed since Season One, and Suave is thriving. He’s got a great job. He’s on the news for his work on prison reform. He’s even got a new nickname on the block: Mr. Pulitzer. Suave is doing what he always dreamed of – and he’s making a real difference. It almost seems like “happily ever after.” Or is it?
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‘Loca’: Migration and Queerness in Alejandro Heredia’s Literary Debut
2025/04/18
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Alejandro Heredia’s debut novel “Loca” has been praised as “quintessentially American”. It takes place in both the Dominican Republic and the Bronx, New York, where Alejandro was shaped into the person he is today.
In this episode, Latino USA producer Reynaldo Leaños Jr. speaks with the Afro-Dominican author about his —and his family’s— migration journey to the United States, his queer awakening, and being a writer during this moment in history. They also reflect on family, grief, joy—and what it means to reclaim your story on your own terms.
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Culture Is Freedom: Remembering Garifuna Legend Aurelio Martínez
2025/04/13
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On March 17, Honduran recording artist Aurelio Martínez died in a tragic plane crash. Aurelio was the voice of the Garifuna people and a fierce defender of their music in culture. Almost two decades ago producer Marlon Bishop became friends with Aurelio, living and traveling with him for several months. He shares the story of their time together.
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'We Need to Reimagine Latinidad': Being Latino in 2025
2025/04/11
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What does it mean to be Latino/Latina/Latinx in 2025?
Is Latinidad a fiction?
Should Latino be considered a race?
On this episode of Latino USA, Maria Hinojosa asks those questions in a conversation with Jean Guerrero, journalist and columnist, and Julissa Arce Raya, author and activist.
They also speak about colorism, recent headlines, and how simply existing as a Latino today can make you a target.
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Building The Future: A Message From Maria
2025/04/07
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We’re doing something different! Today, Maria Hinojosa joins listeners for a special message announcing something new from Futuro. Been dreaming of immediate full season access, and behind the scenes chisme from your favorite shows at Futuro? We have too! Listen to hear more about what’s next for Futuro. To help us grow the future of journalism go to: futuromediagroup.org/joinplus
The Futuro Plus team includes producer Sam J Leeds, production managers Francis Poon and Jessica Ellis, marketing manager Luis Luna, development manager Danetsy Len, and engineers Gabriela Baez and Stephanie Lebow.
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Don't Cross Kat
2025/04/06
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This week Latino USA shares episode 1 of the podcast Don't Cross Kat .
Kat Torres shows an Instagram-perfect life to her large following. She’s a Brazilian supermodel turned life coach who seems harmless but is hiding a secret. And when one of her followers goes missing in the U.S., one woman sets out to bring back her best friend. Paty won’t stop until she gets her friend out from under Kat’s spell. Listen to this special episode from a new series from Futuro Studios and Wondery and hear from the creator of “Don’t Cross Kat.”
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Bilingual Is My Superpower
2025/04/04
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In 2018, Producer Jeanne Montalvo reported on the choices her parents made when raising her in a bilingual household. Five years later, Jeanne’s two children both command the Spanish language. But the oldest, Martin, was 2.5 years old at the start of the pandemic and never learned English. This came with a series of challenges as he entered the school system in New York. One daycare even suggested Martin was on the spectrum. In this follow up episode, Latino USA takes a deep dive into bilingual education history as Jeanne looks for solidarity in the ghosts of New York City’s past.
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Mahmoud Khalil's Case: "The Goal Is to Silence Dissent"
2025/03/30
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“What the Trump administration is trying to do to Mr. Khalil is a blueprint, and if they are able to get away with it, then they will replicate it.”
On March 8th, Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil was taken by immigration agents to a detention facility in Louisiana—without charges. He was taken because of his pro-Palestine activism on campus. Khalil is a legal permanent resident of the United States with a valid green card. Maria Hinojosa talks with his lawyer about the case and the chilling implications for free speech and the right to due process in the U.S. today.
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15 Days in Guantánamo
2025/03/28
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On the first days of his migration journey, “Juan” posed for a photo outside a bus terminal to remember the moment. Two years and two thousand miles later, it landed him in the crosshairs of a recently-elected Trump administration determined to wage an all out war on immigrants, and on a plane to Guantánamo Bay.
Today, the story of how one Venezuelan migrant ended up inside one of the world's most infamous prisons, and what he experienced while he was there. Plus, a conversation with one of the lawyers of Mahmoud Khalil about what Trump’s crackdown on migrants means for us all.
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The Little Black Dress: A Hidden History
2025/03/23
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Before it was the classic dress we all know and many still love today, the little black dress was mostly worn by working-class shopgirls and domestics. Monica Morales-Garcia began to research the origins of the L.B.D. to answer: How had so much changed, yet so much had stayed the same? Listen as Monica walks us through the decline of an industry and the rise of a garment.
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A Scarier, Sexier Drácula
2025/03/21
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Bella Lugosi's leading role in the creepy 1931 film Dracula made him a horror icon. But there's another, even better version of Dracula that was shot in Spanish using different actors on the same sets. We try to figure out why the Spanish movie ended up so much scarier— and sexier— than the original.
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Can El Salvador Really Jail Americans?
2025/03/16
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In the news this week: We discuss Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele’s unprecedented and controversial offer: to jail U.S. citizens in El Salvador.
Maria Hinojosa sits down with journalists Roman Gressier, editor of El Faro English and host of the podcast “Central America in Minutes,” and Lilia Luciano, CBS News correspondent, to discuss Bukele’s attempts to ally with Trump and the parallels between the two administrations.
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The Real Lives of Human Smugglers With Jason De León
2025/03/14
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In this week’s news and reporting, we discuss the links between the booming business of human smuggling and U.S. immigration policies and much more.
Maria Hinojosa sits down with renowned anthropologist and author Jason De León to discuss his latest book “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope on the World of Human Smuggling.” Human smugglers are often hired by migrants to help them through inhospitable and dangerous routes on their way to the United States. But how do human smugglers, also known as coyotes or polleros, get into the business in the first place?
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Teresa Urrea: The Mexican Joan of Arc
2025/03/09
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In the late 1800s, Teresa Urrea was a superstar. She was a ‘curandera,’ or healer, a revolutionary, and a feminist. At only 19 years old she was exiled from Mexico by dictator Porfirio Diaz, who called her the most dangerous girl in the country, and moved to El Paso, Texas. She also had a miraculous power: she could heal people through touch. Her vision of love and equality for all people regardless of gender, race, and class inspired rebellions against the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, earning her the title the Mexican Joan of Arc. In this episode, we follow Teresa Urrea’s life, and honor the legacy of a revolutionary woman decades ahead of her time.
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How I Made It: Ayodele Casel
2025/03/07
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For Ayodele Casel tap dancing is magic. As a young high school student, she dreamed of one day dancing like Ginger Rogers as she recreated Ginger’s moves in her bedroom. But it wasn’t until Ayodele Casel was a sophomore at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts that she took her first tap dancing class. That was her entry point into the art form which would eventually lead to a more than 20 year career as a professional tap dancer.
As a Black and Puerto Rican woman, Ayodele Casel didn’t see herself reflected in the mainstream image of tap dancers because the form has been largely whitewashed through systematic racism. For that reason, she works tirelessly to remind her audiences that tap is deeply rooted in Black art and culture.
In this episode of “How I Made It” Ayodele takes us through her tap journey, and reclaims tap dancing as a Black art form.
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The U.S. and Mexico: A Complicated Relationship
2025/03/02
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To say that the United States and Mexico have a complicated relationship is to put it lightly. We’re talking over 200 years of a complicated power dynamicAnd today more than ever, it’s hard to keep up with how much is constantly happening between the two.
So for this episode we’ll bring OG border and immigration reporters Alfredo Corchado and Angela Kocherga to understand what it could look like now that an unpredictable macho man is in the White House and a cool-headed woman is leading Mexico?
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Harvey Guillén: Breaking Hollywood Molds
2025/02/28
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Harvey Guillén talks with Maria Hinojosa about his role as Guillermo de la Cruz in the FX vampire comedy, What We Do in the Shadows. Harvey reflects on some recent tragic moments and some others from his childhood, none of which has stopped him from pursuing his dreams of being a Hollywood star.
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The Fight Over the Panama Canal
2025/02/23
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As President Trump threatens to take the Panama Canal back, journalist Cristela Guerra recalls her childhood memories growing up between the U.S. and Panama. She tells us about the complicated history between the two countries and what’s at stake if the U.S. tries to take the canal back.
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The Debate Around Emilia Pérez
2025/02/21
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Emilia Pérez has sparked significant controversy not only because of polarizing remarks from its director and lead star, but for its eccentric storytelling and what many call a downright “off” portrayal of Mexico. The film has received countless accolades and is nominated for 13 Oscars. We spoke to film thinkers in Mexico and the U.S. about what went wrong, what went right, and how critics and fans are responding. Listen to our conversation with Gonzalo Galván from El Heraldo de México , Fernanda Solórzano from Letras Libres , LAist’s Antonia Cereijido, and San Antonio Current’s Kiko Martínez.
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Hombre: Understanding Latino Men ft. Two Voters, Two Views
2025/02/16
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In the second episode of our new series "Hombre: Understanding Latino Men," Maria Hinojosa sits down with two young Latino voters from Texas. Alejandro Flores, from Dallas, cast his ballot for Kamala Harris in 2024. First-time voter Alexis Uscanga, from the Rio Grande Valley, chose Donald Trump. This roundtable gets into the issues that informed both Alexis’ and Alejandro’s vote.
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A Sister’s Quest for Justice With Cristina Rivera Garza
2025/02/14
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Author Cristina Rivera Garza’s memoir received the Pulitzer prize in 2024. In Mexico, the book sparked a feminist movement demanding justice for gender-based violence. In “Liliana’s Invincible Summer,” Cristina delves into the “emotional archive” of her sister, who was allegedly killed by her boyfriend 30 years ago, when Liliana was only 20. In this conversation, Cristina Rivera Garza and Maria Hinojosa discuss their own journeys to find the words and power to talk about gender-based violence and femicide in both English and Spanish.
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Toñita’s Club Fights Erasure
2025/02/09
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When you enter the Caribbean Social Club, or Toñita’s, it feels like you could be in your grandmother’s living room. And that’s exactly what its owner, Maria Antonia Cay, —better known as Toñita— was aiming for when she opened the club in the 1970s as a gathering place for the local baseball team. 50 years later, Toñita’s is still standing in Los Sures, the south side of Williamsburg—the most gentrified neighborhood in New York City. Yet over the years, Toñita has faced ever greater challenges to keep her club open. In this episode of Latino USA, we follow Toñita through her latest hurdle, a court battle, and we learn about how the Puerto Rican community in Los Sures has kept culture alive.
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A Day in the Park in Queens, New York
2025/02/07
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This week on Latino USA, we're sharing an episode from Code Switch.
We bring you a different kind of immigration coverage. We're telling a New York story: one that celebrates the beautiful, everyday life of the immigrant. Code Switch producer, Xavier Lopez, and NPR immigration reporter, Jasmine Garsd, spend a day at Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
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AOC: 'I’m Not Going to Give Them My Fear'
2025/02/02
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Amid the chaos generated by Donald Trump’s first days back in the White House, Maria Hinojosa sits down with someone who has sounded off on the former and current president for years: New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
AOC tells us what, in her opinion, went wrong for Democrats in 2024 and how the party can win back voters. She also highlights the beauty and value immigrants bring to the U.S., analyzes the new geopolitics of Latin America and more.
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'Mexicans Don’t Play Basketball'
2025/01/31
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In 1939, a Mexican-American high school basketball team shocked the world. Basketball, at the time, was considered a white man's game. Until Lanier High School, with their all Mexican-American basketball team, won the 1939 San Antonio city championship. But at the moment of their greatest triumph, things suddenly took a turn for this worse.
This episode originally aired in 2016.
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Understanding 'LatinoLand' With Marie Arana
2025/01/26
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“Latinos are not a monolith” is something we hear whenever politicians want to court Latino voters, and no one understands the nuances of this community quite like journalist and author Marie Arana. She’s the author of “LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority," which explores the complexities, histories and cultures of Latinos in the United States.
In this moment of political change, Maria Hinojosa sits down with Marie Arana to discuss just how wide-ranging Latinidad is, unpack this community’s place in U.S.political history, and reflect on the future of Latinos in this country.
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A Vengeful Return
2025/01/24
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Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, signing sweeping executive orders targeting climate, trans rights and immigrants. We hear reactions from a diverse range of those affected, including a Venezuelan migrant at the border, a trans activist in Arizona, and an undocumented domestic worker in New Jersey.
Then, host Maria Hinojosa sits down with Princeton Professor of African American Studies and author Dr. Eddie Glaude and Senior Political Reporter for Vox Nicole Narea to break down what it all means and where we go from here.
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LA on Fire and in Solidarity
2025/01/19
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This week on Latino USA, listen to those directly impacted by the devastating wildfires across Los Angeles County, where at least 25 people have died, thousands were displaced, and communities completely destroyed. Guest host Fernanda Echavarri is joined by Antonia Cereijido, host and reporter at LAist, to talk about the situation on the ground and the community solidarity that has sprung from this disaster.
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Indigenous Science With Jessica Hernandez
2025/01/17
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As a Zapotec and Maya Ch’orti’ environmental scientist, Dr. Jessica Hernandez has always found academia to be a hostile place. She had looked forward to sharing what she learned from her grandmother and father about nature as an undergraduate student, but her lived experiences and knowledge were dismissed and sometimes mocked by her professors.
Now, Dr. Hernandez is working to change how we think about environmental sciences by centering Indigenous science to heal our planet, because she knows Western conservationism isn’t working.
This episode originally aired in 2022.
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Hombre: Understanding Latino Men ft. Chuck Rocha
2025/01/12
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Much has been said about Latino men after the presidential election, but a lot of it lacks context. In order to deepen our understanding of Latino manhood and its influence in the United States at this moment, we are launching a new series, "Hombre: Understanding Latino Men" today. The series features nuanced conversations with a diverse group of hombres latinos.
Our first guest is political consultant and Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha. He sits down with Maria Hinojosa to unpack why Latino men shifted further right in 2024 and how the Democratic Party failed to reach these voters.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' on Screen
2025/01/10
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Netflix has brought Gabriel García Márquez’s iconic novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" to life with a two-part limited series spanning over 16 hours of television. The Colombian masterpiece tells the multi-generational saga of the Buendía family, who establish the utopian town of Macondo. The story captures their struggles with love, war, curses, and solitude, intertwined with the magical realism that defines García Márquez’s literary style.
We spoke to Alex García López, one of the series’ directors about the experience of creating the magical world of Macondo.
This interview was recorded in early November.
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Nacho's Special
2025/01/05
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Nachos: They’re one of the most popular snack foods in the United States, and the name is instantly recognizable worldwide. Bright yellow nacho cheese is now a staple at countless sports events and movie nights, serving as a flavor of nostalgia to many.
But nachos’ immense popularity over the years has overshadowed their true history. The first nachos weren’t invented in ballparks or designed for concession stands. They were created 80 years ago in a small town in Mexico, along the south Texas border. And they weren’t made to be a big hit. Still, nachos would end up bigger than anyone could have ever imagined.
This episode originally aired in January 2023.
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iLe on Song and Protest
2025/01/03
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For Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Ileana Cabra — known by her stage name, iLe — music has always been a way to reflect and comment on the world around her.
iLe began her musical career singing with her brothers in their renowned rap group Calle 13. But in 2016, iLe decided to go solo. She would go on to release three studio albums, using those platforms to explore many musical genres with deep roots in Latin America and the Caribbean: from boleros and salsa, to pop and reggaeton. As a songwriter, iLe puts her lyricism at the forefront, delving into themes of patriarchy and colonialism in her music.
In this episode iLe walks us through the evolution of her music as a form of protest, and how she is daring herself to show a more personal side in her most recent album, “Nacarile.”
This episode originally aired in 2023.
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If They Kill Me
2024/12/29
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On May 3, 2017, a young woman was found dead on the campus of a prestigious university in Mexico City. Soon after the Mexico City Attorney General's office sent out a series of tweets—that would be picked up by the Mexican media—that characterized the 22-year-old as a dropout and alcoholic. The response online was immediate: many women saw these tweets and media reports as an attempt to discredit the woman as a victim and in response, thousands of women started to tweet with the hashtag #SiMeMatan or “if they kill me.” It was short for: “If they kill me, what will they say to blame me for my own death?” Latin America has some of the highest rates of femicide in the world—and Latino USA dives into a case that demonstrates the deep challenges that remain for women in Mexico.
This episode originally aired in 2019.
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Spain’s Pact to Forget
2024/12/27
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Filmed over six years, "The Silence of Others" reveals how survivors and their families have struggled to cope in the aftermath of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco. The film, executive produced by Pedro Almodóvar, follows the victims as they organize a groundbreaking international lawsuit and fight a “pact of forgetting” around the crimes they suffered. Survivors of the dictatorship and human rights lawyers built a case in Argentina that Spanish courts refuse to hear. Maria Hinojosa speaks about the film with its directors, Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar.
This episode originally aired in 2019.
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Reservations
2024/12/22
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The Yakama Indian Reservation in Eastern Washington is home to 11,000 Native Americans and almost three times as many Latinos. Over recent decades, the reservation has attracted Mexican farmworkers and their families who made the valley their home. Despite shared indigenous roots, living side by side hasn't been easy, and tensions between the two groups are high. On this collaboration with Northwest Public Radio, Latino USA dives into the dynamics of the reservation, exploring how two communities living side by side try to learn to get along.
This episode originally aired in November 2015.
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The Return
2024/12/20
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Javier Zamora was nine years-old when he made the journey from El Salvador to the U.S.-Mexico border. Last year, nearly 20 years later, he returned to the country where he was born, to apply for a visa that will allow him to continue to live in the U.S. In this award-winning episode from our vault, we follow Javier's return in his own words: through audio diaries, archival family tape, and interviews. "The Return" is an intimate portrait of what gets left behind when we immigrate and what we can gain when we return.
This story originally aired in December of 2018.
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Natasha Alford on Growing Up 'American Negra'
2024/12/15
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Natasha S. Alford has always been three things: Black, Latina and an overachiever. Weeks after a historic presidential election, Maria Hinojosa and Natasha —a political analyst, journalist, and media executive— sit down to talk about solidarity between Black and Latinx communities and Natasha’s latest achievement, her debut memoir American Negra .
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An All-American Tragedy
2024/12/13
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This week Latino USA brings you an episode of the In The Thick podcast.
ITT hosts Maria Hinojosa and Paola Ramos are joined by NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff for a deep dive into the devastating consequences of Donald Trump’s first term immigration policy. They discuss the upcoming film “Separated,” based on Soboroff’s 2020 book by the same name, Trump’s child separation policy, and what a repeat of one of the darkest chapters in U.S. immigration history could look like.
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The Border Has Eyes
2024/12/08
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The “virtual wall” across the U.S.-Mexico border is made up of things like drones, sensors, cameras and… surveillance towers.
Both Democrats and Republicans have supported border technology through the years, but advocates and researchers argue that a virtual wall can be as controversial, and deadly, as a physical wall.
On this episode, producer Reynaldo Leaños Jr. travels to southern Arizona where one of the first major concentrations of surveillance towers on the southern border were built, and he looks at what these towers mean today, and for the future of those crossing, and living, there.
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The Burden: Avenger
2024/12/06
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This week Latino USA brings you an episode of the The Burden: Avengers podcast.
Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. At age 19, she was kidnapped for her political activism and thrown into a concentration camp. Thousands of her fellow inmates were executed, tossed alive from cargo planes into the ocean. Miriam survived. Then as a journalist, she waged a campaign to bring her tormentors to justice.
Avenger is a podcast series produced by Orbit Media that tells the story of one woman’s triumphant battle against unbelievable odds to survive torture, claim justice for the crimes done against her and others like her, and change the future of her country.
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Portrait Of: Immortal Technique
2024/12/01
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Felipe Coronel, aka Immortal Technique, is a legendary underground hip-hop artist known for his skills on the mic and his raw, highly political lyrics. The Peruvian-American rapper became well-known for his first album in 2001, "Revolutionary Vol. 1" and particularly for his infamously brutal song "Dance With the Devil." Tech says growing up in Harlem during the 80's and 90's caused him to harbor a lot of rage—much of his music discusses colonialism, poverty, and corruption. We sit down with Immortal Technique to get a deeper sense of what it was like growing up in Harlem and how his rage has played into his successful music career.
This episode originally aired in 2019.
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Portrait Of: ‘Taina’ and the Love of Nostalgia TV
2024/11/29
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In 2001, Nickelodeon started airing "Taina," a show about a Latina teen who attends a performing arts high school in NYC and daydreams of being a star. While the show only lasted two seasons, "Taina" is seared into the memories of many who grew up watching it, because at the time it was rare to see an authentic portrayal of what it was like to be a Nuyorican teen in the early 2000s. In this episode from our vault, Maria Hinojosa talks to the show’s award-winning creator Maria Perez-Brown, who is Nuyorican herself, about jumping into the world of children's television after being a tax lawyer, and the surprisingly long legacy of “Taina.”
This episode originally aired in 2019.
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The Dream 9
2024/11/24
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With DACA and the Dreamers poised to be back in the center of the national conversation, Latino USA revisits this episode about what it means to be young and undocumented in the United States today. In 2013, a group of young undocumented activists known as the Dream 9 staged one of the riskiest protests in the history of the immigration rights movement. They willingly left the U.S. to Mexico, and then demanded to be let back into the country despite lacking legal status. Their efforts landed them in detention—and in the national spotlight.
This episode originally aired in October 2015.
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Fixing Immigration
2024/11/22
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This week Latino USA brings you an episode of Future Hindsight.
Host Mila Atmos is joined by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, the Policy Director at the American Immigration Council, a non-profit organization that strives to strengthen the United States by shaping immigration policies and practices. They discuss how out-of-date immigration laws are and why the only cure is comprehensive immigration reform from Congress.
U.S. immigration laws have not changed since the 1990s. The current border enforcement and asylum system dates back to 1996, and in fact, one of the reasons that asylum seekers are living in shelters is because Congress decided in 1996 to make it illegal for them to get a work permit until six months after they apply for asylum. The asylum system is severely underfunded and is a major reason for processing delays. In addition, there are more than 4 million people who have already been approved for visas but the wait time to get the legal status is decades long.
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More Than A Friendship: An Intimate Conversation With Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal
2024/11/17
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Maria Hinojosa sits down with award-winning Mexican actors Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal to talk about their latest projects together—"La Máquina", Hulu’s first original Spanish language series and "State of Silence," a Netflix documentary about the threats and dangers Mexican journalists face while reporting in their country. Diego and Gael also discuss how they foster their lifelong friendship, and how the two create politically powerful art.
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Becoming Paloma: A Young Woman’s Transition Journey
2024/11/15
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When Paloma, a second-generation Mexican-American trans woman, was attending Maria Hinojosa’s class at Barnard College, she was using they/them pronouns. Back then, she was downcast and barely spoke a word. Years later, Maria started seeing Paloma’s social media posts as a fabulous and outgoing drag performer. How did that happen?
In this episode, we follow Paloma in her journey to womanhood—a journey that started in her family home in the Bay Area and continues today, after months of Hormone Replacement Treatment (HRT).
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Unpacking American Extremism
2024/11/14
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A week after the re-election of Donald Trump, Maria Hinojosa is joined by ITT all-stars Imara Jones, journalist and founder of Translash Media, and Karen Attiah, Washington Post Opinion columnist. They dive into the far-reaching implications of Trump’s victory for our communities and what it means for the future of American democracy.
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The Tenant Association
2024/11/12
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This week, Latino USA brings you the first episode of The Tenant Association, produced by Los Angeles Public Press.
The series follows a group of tenants who came together and fought back against their landlord. It’s a story about neighbors—elderly, young, immigrant, working class renters. Many of them are Latine and Asian and had lived for decades in an apartment complex in LA’s Chinatown. Until they got a rent increase that was basically an eviction notice… and decided to fight to stay in their homes. They’ve become a political force to be reckoned with, and changed what we think is possible for renters in Los Angeles. The tenants of Hillside Villa have been fighting for six years, and they’re not done.
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Trump Is Back, Now What?
2024/11/08
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To cap off our 2024 election coverage, The Latino Factor: How We Vote, Latino USA teamed up with Futuro Media’s political podcast In The Thick to bring you a special episode. In the election that many Americans said was “the most important of their lifetimes,” Maria Hinojosa spends the day speaking to voters, students, journalists and movement leaders across the country. Later Maria is joined by journalists Paola Ramos, Jean Guerrero and Jamil Smith to unpack why Trump won the elections—including the popular vote—with increased support from Latinos.
This story is part of our special election coverage: The Latino Factor: How We Vote.
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Going Viral: How Influencers Are Impacting the Battle Over Young Latino Voters
2024/11/03
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Since 1986, there has been an enduring 26-point gap in youth voter turnout in presidential elections. And as the Latine population continues to grow in the US, they are making up a large portion of new young eligible voters. So, in this election, both parties aggressively courted young Latinos for their votes. We follow two young Latinos who have been hand-picked by the parties to get out the youth vote, on the ground– in battleground states and all over social media.
This story is part of our special election coverage: The Latino Factor: How We Vote.
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Latino USA Presents: The Voter Suppression Playbook
2024/11/01
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In The Thick hosts Maria Hinojosa and Paola Ramos are joined by LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, and Frankie Miranda, president and CEO of the Hispanic Federation to discuss voter suppression in Black and Latino communities. They break down the legal, social and political methods being used by the far-right and reveal how these misunderstood voting blocs could decide the outcome of the 2024 election.
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The Misinformation Web
2024/10/27
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The 2024 presidential election has seen a rise in Spanish-language misinformation and in the content creators making a living by pushing out false content. For months, Futuro Investigates in collaboration with Latino USA, tracked how lies and conspiracies about the election and the candidates that originated in English soon found their way to Spanish-speaking audiences, amid the expanded monetization of tech platforms and the rise of technologies like AI. We meet face to face with social media influencers pushing out misinformation in Spanish, and with the experts combating it.
This story is part of our ongoing election coverage “The Latino Factor: How We Vote.”
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Latino USA Presents: The Rise of the Latino Far Right
2024/10/25
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This week Latino USA shares an episode of The In Thick podcast.
Maria is joined by co-host Paola Ramos, author of “Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America,” to examine the growing support for extremism in America and why Latinos can be especially susceptible to far-right ideologies.
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38 Years for a Double Life
2024/10/24
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This week, Latino USA shares the conclusion of Futuro Investigates podcast series USA v. García Luna . The day finally arrived. Genaro García Luna, one of Mexico’s former most powerful government officials, has been sentenced to serve more than 38 years in prison by a court in New York. In the last episode of our series, Maria Hinojosa and Peniley Ramírez tell us what happened inside the courthouse and also reveal to us that this isn’t the end of the judicial problems for García Luna in the United States, as he faces other cases in the country.
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From Cuba to New York and Around the World With Paquito D’Rivera
2024/10/20
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Ever since he can remember, music has been part of Paquito D’Rivera’s life. The 76-year old jazz pioneer has played on stages across the world and is still winning awards across genres. In 2023, he received Latin Grammys for Best Latin Jazz Album and Best Contemporary Classical Composition.
In this conversation with Maria Hinojosa, Paquito talks about the places music has taken him, the people he’s met along the way, and the ways he’s improvising his way into the next chapter of his life.
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Azul, The Musical: Bringing Spanglish on Stage
2024/10/18
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Argentinian composer and guitarist Jacinta Clusellas didn’t expect that she would end up writing musicals when she moved to the United States to study music. Jacinta is part of the all-female creative team behind “Azul,” a bilingual musical in which the characters sing both in English and Spanish.
In this episode of Latino USA, Jacinta tells us about the creative process and the inspiration behind this musical, and her personal connection to it.
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The Movement For Indigenous Peoples’ Day
2024/10/13
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In the U.S., Columbus Day is a federal holiday in honor of the Italian navigator Christopher Columbus—and it’s a day of Italian-American celebration. But not everyone is on board with celebrating Columbus. His colonization led to the bloodshed of Indigenous people and while he did arrive to the Americas, he never set foot in North America. Over the past few decades, there has been a growing movement to officially replace the holiday with a day of recognition for Indigenous people. Latino USA explores the movement to change the holiday, and pays a visit to one of the latest states to make Indigenous Peoples’ Day official: Maine.
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Spanish as a First Language
2024/10/11
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Being a new parent comes with a series of challenges—one being the decision whether or not to teach your child a second language. Latino USA explores the world of bilingual parenting through the story of two Dominican-American siblings growing up in the South, one who was drawn to Spanish and the other who never wanted to speak it. Both of the siblings are now parents and faced with the question: to teach your kids Spanish or not to teach your kids Spanish?
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Elián, Part Two: The Ultimatum
2024/10/06
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After Elián’s rescue he was released to relatives in Miami. Just a day later the Cuban government sent a note: the boy’s father and Fidel Castro wanted Elián back. Tensions between the two countries had long been high, and relations were about to be tested to the extreme as the Thanksgiving miracle became an international custody battle. Just over a week after his rescue, on Dec. 6, 1999, Elián turned six years old. That same day Fidel Castro sent an ultimatum to the U.S. to return the boy to his father within 72 hours.
“Chess Piece: The Elián González Story ” is a new podcast from Futuro Studios and iHeartMedia’s My Cultura Podcast Network, hosted by investigative journalist Peniley Ramírez.
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Miami Dade College's Wolfson Archives
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The Elián González Saga, Revisited
2024/10/04
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It was Thanksgiving of 1999 when two Florida fishermen rescued a little boy from the sea. His name was Elián González—a Cuban 5-year-old who had survived a journey across the ocean. His mother and others drowned.
His survival made global headlines, and soon Elián would be put in the middle of a dramatic battle for his custody between members of his family and two nations: Cuba and the United States.
“Chess Piece: The Elián González Story ” is a new podcast from Futuro Studios and iHeartMedia’s My Cultura Podcast Network, hosted by investigative journalist Peniley Ramírez.
More episodes available now on the Chess Piece feed, wherever you get your podcasts.
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Miami Dade College's Wolfson Archives
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AP Archive, Belly of The Beast Cuba, CBS Early Show, CBS Evening News, CNN, CNN's "Elián: The Remarkable Story of A Cuban Boy's Journey to America," C-SPAN, Cubavisión, Good Morning America, ITN Archive, Univision, and 7 News At 5pm.
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The Diary of an ‘Undesirable’
2024/09/29
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In 1945, 20-year-old Anthony Acevedo was held in captivity with other American soldiers inside a Nazi concentration camp called Berga. There, the soldiers were used as slave laborers, building tunnels for underground fuel factories. It was during this time that the Mexican-American medic kept a secret diary and documented the horrors he witnessed inside the camp.
Acevedo held on to his war diary until 2010, when he donated it to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C. That same year, he registered as a Holocaust survivor with the museum—the first and only Mexican-American to do so.
This episode originally aired in May 2018.
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Portrait Of: Rubén Blades
2024/09/27
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Rubén Blades is a singer, songwriter, actor, lawyer, and politician, born in Panama and a New Yorker since 1974. After four decades in the public eye, 17 Grammy Awards, and some of the best-selling records in salsa history, his unique storytelling across music styles has kept him relevant to this day. He’s worked with a wide range of musicians including Héctor Lavoe, Willie Colón, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Sting, Michael Jackson, and Calle 13. He has also kept a presence back home - he ran for president in Panama in 1994 and was appointed as minister of tourism in 2004. Latino USA sits down with the author of the song Pedro Navaja to discuss highlights of his monumental career.
This story originally aired in October of 2018.
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Journalist Roundtable: Unlocking the Latino Vote
2024/09/22
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A few weeks from the November 2024, Maria Hinojosa brings together three super-star Latino journalists for a roundtable; John Quiñones, Maria Elena Salinas, and Paola Ramos. All four of these legends combined, have over 100 years of journalistic experience– they have seen it all. Amongst each other, they get frank and talk about the state of journalism, partisan politics, and which 2024 Presidential candidate will capture the Latino Vote.
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Ernesto Londoño’s Journey Into Psychedelics
2024/09/20
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Ernesto Londoño is a national correspondent with The New York Times, where he covers the U.S. midwest. He’s also the author of a new book named “Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics.”
In this episode of Latino USA, Ernesto talks about his healing —and journalistic— journey with psychedelics and discusses the hopes and concerns the therapeutic use and industry of these substances generate.
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Decoding the Debate
2024/09/17
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Latino USA brings you the launch of In The Thick’s new popup season—to help you break down this unprecedented political moment and what it means for our communities and our futures.
In this episode Maria Hinojosa is joined by her fellow co-hosts political scientist Dr. Christina Greer, journalist Paola Ramos and actress Judy Reyes. Together they help you decode this week’s presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.
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The Taco Index: Inflation and the Latino Vote
2024/09/15
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In recent years, rising grocery prices have shocked many of us, changing how we discuss inflation. For economists, inflation measures how quickly prices increase over a set period, but for most consumers, it’s a matter of affordability.
We all have prices we track, like milk, pizza, and tacos. For our host Maria Hinojosa, a good taco tops that list. In San Diego, one of the U.S. cities hit hardest by inflation, she spoke with local taqueros and families about the rising cost of goods, and its implications for the upcoming election.
Editorial note: Interviews were recorded in late April and May.
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The Literary Phenomenon of Irene Vallejo
2024/09/13
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Irene Vallejo never imagined she would become a global literary sensation. In 2019, the Spanish author and academic published an essay about a somewhat obscure topic: the ancient history of books. After a short literary career, she thought it would be the last book she published. Instead, “Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World” has become an international bestseller since then. It was translated into 38 languages, connecting Irene with millions of readers across the world.
In this episode, Irene opens up about the difficult circumstances in which she wrote this book, the ways she managed to make ancient history come to life, and the unwelcome consequences of global success for a female author.
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The Moving Border: Part Two, The South
2024/09/08
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In Part 2 of The Moving Border, we visit Tapachula, Mexico in search of a young man whose life is in danger and we find a new frontier where refugees trying to make it to the U.S. are increasingly stuck thanks to an international effort to make Mexico a destination state for asylum.
The Moving Border series was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center, with additional support provided by the Ford Foundation.
This episode originally aired in 2020.
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How I Made It: Making Movies
2024/09/06
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Making Movies is a band based out of Kansas City, Missouri that mixes Afro-Latino rhythms and psychedelic rock’n'roll. The group members have roots in Panama and Mexico. It’s composed by two sets of brothers, lead singer and guitarist Enrique Chi and bassist Diego, and Juan-Carlos and Andres Chaurand on percussion and drums.
In this edition of our series “How I Made It," Latino USA sits down with Enrique and Juan-Carlos to discuss, "Locura Colectiva," one of the band’s most ambitious tracks. They discuss how the track came to be and why they felt the album at one point was cursed.
This episode originally aired in 2019.
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The Moving Border: Part One, The North
2024/09/01
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In this 2-part investigation, The Moving Border from Latino USA delves into the increasing pressure put on refugees seeking safety in the United States via its southern border. It reveals the surprising support the Trump administration has received to create an impenetrable policy wall that pushes asylum seekers south, away from the U.S.
In episode one, The North, we visit Juarez and tell the story of a mother and daughter who are mired in a web of changing policy and subjected to ongoing violence. And we find evidence of how Mexican authorities are working hand-in-hand with the U.S. at the border.
The Moving Border series was produced by Julieta Martinelli, Fernanda Camarena, and Maria Hinojosa, and edited by Marlon Bishop. The Executive Producer is Diane Sylvester. It was made possible by a partnership with the Pulitzer Center, with additional support provided by the Ford Foundation.
This episode originally aired in 2020.
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How I Made It: From Med School Student To Cimafunk
2024/08/30
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It was only a few years ago that Erik Rodriguez was attending medical school in his native Cuba, following his family of careerists’ footsteps. But then, when he heard James Brown’s "I feel good," he realized that he was meant for a different path.
In this segment of “How I Made It,” Erik takes us through his transformation into Afro-Cuban artist Cimafunk—a Billboard’s “Top 10 Latin Artists to Watch”—and explains how someone who had never studied music before found the confidence to listen to himself and be listened to by others.
This episode originally aired in 2020.
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Guns, Latinos and the 2024 Election
2024/08/25
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Gun violence is a top voting issue for Latinos and Latinas this election cycle. So to explore how Latines are thinking about the topic, we traveled to Texas. The Lone Star State has more registered guns than any other state in the country, and it’s also home to some of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history — many of them directly targeting Latinos and Latinas.
On this episode of Latino USA, producer Reynaldo Leaños Jr. travels to El Paso, Texas to speak with Latinx activists and gun owners about gun reform and safety ahead of the November presidential election. Maria Hinojosa returns to Uvalde, Texas to catch up with a survivor of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary and see how the community has been mobilizing around gun reform.
This story is part of our ongoing political coverage “The Latino Factor: How We Vote."
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How I Made It: Draco Rosa
2024/08/23
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The Puerto Rican singer and songwriter Draco Rosa just released a new album, "Monte Sagrado," after several years without sharing a new collection of work, and after battling cancer. Born Robert Edward Rosa Suárez in New York, Rosa is a Grammy-winning artist, and a member of the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is behind hits including “Livin’ la Vida Loca.”
Draco Rosa talks about his career, his battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Hurricane María, and the creation of "Monte Sagrado."
This episode originally aired in 2018.
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The Spillover: How the Texas Abortion Ban Shook Up Eastern New Mexico
2024/08/18
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After Texas passed a six-week abortion ban and Roe v. Wade was overturned, many abortion clinics had to close in the Lone Star state. Some providers considered opening clinics in eastern New Mexico, so that they could keep providing services to women from Texas and other states where abortion is banned. But some neighbors in eastern New Mexico were not so welcoming to this idea.
In this episode of our continuing series “The Latino Factor: How We Vote,” we travel to eastern New Mexico to meet Latinas and Latinos who have mobilized politically for and against abortion in the region. We also learn about how the anti-abortion movement is trying to revive an obscure law from the 19th Century, the Comstock Act, to stop clinics from opening by passing local ordinances.
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Imperfect Paradise: Return to Mexico
2024/08/16
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This week Latino USA shares an episode from the podcast "Imperfect Paradise: Return to Mexico," from LAist.
In 2011, Daniel Zamora took a road trip that shattered the course of his life. Lulled to sleep by the drive, he awoke to find that his boyfriend had taken a detour, curious to look at the border wall, and that they were surrounded by Border Patrol.
Imperfect Paradise: Return to Mexico tells the story of Daniel Zamora who remade his life after being deported from the U.S. to Mexico. Daniel’s friend and series reporter Lorena Ríos explores Daniel’s journey, from the time he spent as a young teenager without his parents in Río Blanco, to his coming-of-age in Los Angeles and Iowa, to his current life in Ciudad Juárez as a retornado, or returnee.
Through an intimate conversation, the series interrogates narratives around deportation as failure, the porous reality of people with lives on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border and the alternate lives immigrants leave behind and construct anew.
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The Mortgage Wall
2024/08/11
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The Mortgage Wall is a special episode by Futuro Investigates in collaboration with Latino USA. As housing has become one of the top five concerns for Latino voters for the first time ever this election cycle, we dive into the disparities that make it harder for Latinos and Latinas to overcome mortgage lending barriers and achieve homeownership.
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Daymé Arocena: Straight Outta Havana
2024/08/09
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Daymé Arocena is a Cuban singer, songwriter and composer who left the island looking for artistic freedom. Arocena has been described as one of the most explosive and dynamic voices today. In her latest album "Alkemi" she bridges her knowledge of jazz, Afro-Cuban percussion, and even a little 90s R&B. These last few years have been a time of intense transformation for Arocena, so on this episode of Latino USA, the 32-year-old tells us how her upbringing has helped her create music that doesn’t fit easily into a box.
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The Battle Over Chavez Ravine
2024/08/04
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Vicente Montalvo's grandparents grew up and fell in love in Palo Verde, one of the neighborhoods that make up a community known as Chavez Ravine. In the early 1950s, the city decided that Chavez Ravine was the perfect site to build public housing. So the residents were forced to sell their homes under the city's use of eminent domain. But the election of a new mayor, would end up canceling those plans, and instead the land would become what many know today as Dodger Stadium.
This segment was originally aired in 2017.
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How I Made It: Alaska, on an LGBTQ Anthem en Español
2024/08/02
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Alaska is a Mexican-born singer from Spain with one of the most definitive LGBTQ Spanish anthems: "¿A quién le importa?" by the duo Alaska y Dinarama. In the late '70s, Alaska was one of the key figures of La Movida Madrileña, the era post-dictatorship in Spain. In this episode, the singer discusses her music career, how she went from being María Olvido Gara Jova to Alaska, and the message behind one of her most enduring hits.
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In Conversation With Kamala Harris
2024/07/28
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As Vice President Kamala Harris ascends as the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate this November, we revisit Maria Hinojosa’s sit-down 2023 conversation with the vice president.
We also hear from our Latino USA listeners about how they feel about VP Harris and what they expect from her should she become the next president of the United States.
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Corruption in Venezuela: Journalist Roberto Deniz and the U.S. Factor
2024/07/26
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Roberto Deniz is a Venezuelan investigative journalist whose work has uncovered widespread corruption in Nicolás Maduro’s government.
With the elections in Venezuela approaching on July 28th, Roberto sat down with co-executive producer Peniley Ramírez to discuss his work uncovering a big corruption scandal, the role the United States played in it, and the political landscape in Venezuela leading up to this crucial vote.
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More Than a Meme: Astrology Today With Isa Nakazawa
2024/07/21
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Many of us grew up flipping to the horoscope section in magazines or waited for that weekly hit with celebrity astrologer Walter Mercado—or maybe you have a full-blown astrology practice and plan your days according to the way the stars and planets are aligned. Whatever your feelings on astrology are, it is by no means new, and it’s experiencing a renaissance—especially among Latinos and Latinas.
Today on Latino USA, we sit down with Isa Nakazawa, the host of Futuro Studios new show, Stars and Stars with Isa. Isa shows us how we are in charge of our own lives and destinies and how we can use astrology to enhance and understand ourselves more than ever in this changing world. She also prepared a surprise for our host Maria Hinojosa—a short reading of her birth chart.
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Ruth Behar: The Dancing Anthropologist
2024/07/19
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Anthropologist Ruth Behar is a groundbreaking scholar who also delights in salsa dancing.
Born in Cuba to a Jewish family, Ruth draws from her heritage as an anthropologist and writer. Her latest middle grade novel, “Across So Many Seas,” was released in early 2024.
In this episode, we spend the afternoon with Ruth and producer Elisa Baena before salsa class. They discuss Ruth’s writing process, how Ruth’s personal history inspired “Across So Many Seas,” and why the creative experiences of writing and dancing are connected.
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My Divo: Juárez and Its Secrets
2024/07/14
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Today, Latino USA shares episode 2 of the "My Divo" podcast.
Get in, we’re going clubbing in Juárez! It’s going to be glitzy, it’s going to be gritty. This is the nighttime scene that birthed Juan Gabriel. But like many cities, Juárez holds secrets. Maria uncovers a haunting secret about Juan Gabriel and, along the way, confronts a dark piece of the past in her own family.
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Introducing: My Divo
2024/07/12
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This week, Latino USA shares an episode of the "My Divo" podcast.
For host Maria Garcia, Mexican megastar Juan Gabriel has always held a singular allure. He was a prolific composer and one of the world’s greatest showmen. There was a lightness and a bigness to him—a big queer exuberance. And now, as the first openly gay woman in her family line, Maria looks to Juan Gabriel as a key to reconcile her queerness with her Mexican heritage.
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The Strange Death of José de Jesús, Part 2
2024/07/07
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In part two of our two-part special, we continue our investigation into the death of a man in a U.S. immigration detention center in 2015. José de Jesús turned himself into Border Patrol saying somebody was after him. Three days later, he died by suicide after stuffing a sock down his throat. In part two of this story, surveillance video reveals clues about what happened inside his cell, and an internal investigation from Immigration and Customs Enforcement answers many of our questions about what happened to José in the days leading up to his death.
This story originally aired in 2016.
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How I Made It: Lido Pimienta on ‘Miss Colombia’
2024/07/05
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Colombian-Canadian singer-songwriter Lido Pimienta tells us how her experience of migration led to her love of Afro-Colombian music, how a beauty pageant and its underlying anti-blackness inspired her new album, and how she came to collaborate with the legendary Afro-Colombian ensemble, Sexteto Tabalá, in her track "Pelo Cucú.”
This episode originally aired in 2020.
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The Strange Death of José de Jesús, Part 1
2024/06/30
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A man dies in a U.S. immigration detention center, under unusual circumstances. He is found unresponsive in his cell, with a sock stuffed down his throat. His death is ruled a suicide, but little information is put out about what happened, and the family wants answers. In this first part of a special two-part series, Latino USA investigates why José de Jesús died in the custody of the U.S. government, and what his death tells us about conditions—especially mental health services—inside the immigration detention system.
This story originally aired in July of 2016.
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How I Made It: Apple Emojis
2024/06/28
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When Angela Guzman started her internship at Apple back in 2008 she had no idea her first project would have such an impact on how we communicate. Guzman co-designed the first set of Apple Emojis and our keyboards haven't been the same since.
This episode originally aired in 2019.
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In the Shadow of the Wall
2024/06/23
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This election year, a question roams in many voters' minds: Is there an “invasion” on our southern border? The answer from plenty of the people who live and work there is no. To understand what is really going on at the border, we travel to Sasabe, a tiny community in a remote area of the Arizona border with Mexico, to find out how human-smuggling battles within the Sinaloa cartel turned it into a ghost town. We also visit a pop-up camp set up on the U.S. side of the border fence. There, volunteers help thousands of asylum seekers from all over the world who turn themselves into the Border Patrol every day.
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Growing Up With The Tiarras
2024/06/21
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The Tiarras have been playing together since they were just little girls, but they’ve been sisters forever.
The band is arguably best known for writing and performing catchy tunes that dive into themes of Latina empowerment, self-love and they’re not afraid to get political.
On this episode of Latino USA, these hermanas tell us more about the role sisterhood plays in their creative process and why they hope their art and journey inspires future generations of Latinos and Latinas.
This episode originally aired in 2022.
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iLe on Song and Protest
2024/06/16
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For Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Ileana Cabra — known by her stage name, iLe — music has always been a way to reflect and comment on the world around her.
iLe began her musical career singing with her brothers in their renowned rap group Calle 13. But in 2016, iLe decided to go solo. She would go on to release three studio albums, using those platforms to explore many musical genres with deep roots in Latin America and the Caribbean: from boleros and salsa, to pop and reggaeton. As a songwriter, iLe puts her lyricism at the forefront, delving into themes of patriarchy and colonialism in her music.
In this episode iLe walks us through the evolution of her music as a form of protest, and how she is daring herself to show a more personal side in her most recent album, “Nacarile.”
This episode originally aired in 2023
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Will Watching All of Almodóvar’s Movies Make You More Neurotic?
2024/06/14
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Will watching all of Pedro Almodovar's movies in one month make you more or less neurotic? Hard-hitting journalists Antonia Cereijido and Fernanda Echávarri decided to find out. Along the way they glean life lessons about moms, absurdity, and friendship. They even get guidance from the iconic Spanish director himself.
This episode originally aired in 2017.
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The Constant Evolution of Shea Serrano
2024/06/09
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Shea Serrano’s prolific writing career started unexpectedly when his wife, pregnant with twins, had to stop working. With not many options that could fit his full-time job as middle school teacher, Shea started hunting for writing gigs that eventually lead to him becoming a New York Times bestselling author, a showrunner, and a movie writer.
In this episode, we talk to the San Antonio-born and raised author whose work spans from the movie “Miguel Wants to Fight,” to the Netflix series “Neon” and “Primo.” The latter got a stunning 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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What Inspires Latino Solidarity With Gaza?
2024/06/07
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In this episode of Latino USA, we hear from three Latino voices around the country on what informs their solidarity with Palestinians as the war on Gaza continues. From Pro-Palestinian organizers to Jewish Latinos to Latino evangelicals, they help us understand how different Latino communities are responding to this moment, and how this political activism will impact the presidential election in November.
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Immensely Invisible
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Love & Walkouts
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Hector Galán: A Life Documenting Marginalized Stories
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Creating the Sound of Latino USA
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En Español
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No Strings Attached
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How I Made It: No Te Va Gustar
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Uvalde Rising
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Restaurant Royalty: Zarela and Aarón
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José Ralat, Taco Editor
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30 Años: An Oral History of Latino USA
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Colombia's Secret War Against Civilians
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The Pulso Podcast
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Valle de Sueños: The Beginning of the End
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The World Through Julio Torres’ Eyes
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New Hope for Melissa Lucio
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Flickering Fame
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Rita Indiana's Pan-Caribbean Rebirth
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Birth Control In Times Of Crisis
2021/04/09
How I Made It: Unforgivable
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La Brega: The Bankruptcy Letters
2021/04/02
How I Made It: Rodrigo y Gabriela
2021/03/30
The Breakdown: Heavy Metal Edition
2021/03/26
La Brega: The End Of The Promises
2021/03/23
La Brega: Basketball Warriors
2021/03/19
La Brega: An Encyclopedia Of Betrayal
2021/03/16
A Year Like No Other
2021/03/12
Texas In The Dark: A Reporter’s Notebook
2021/03/09
La Brega: Vieques And The Promise To Build Back Better
2021/03/05
How I Made It: Futuro Conjunto
2021/03/02
Gustavo Dudamel’s Harmony In Times Of Crisis
2021/02/26
La Brega, Episode 2: Levittown, Where The Good Life Begins
2021/02/24
La Brega, Episode 1: What Is La Brega?
2021/02/24
Yesika Salgado On Love, Lust, And Being A Hopeless Romantic
2021/02/23
Portrait Of: José Feliciano
2021/02/19
Suave: Episode 2 'The Hustle'
2021/02/16
Suave: Episode 1 'The Sentence'
2021/02/12
Selena And Abraham
2021/02/09
Dr. Fauci: One Year Into The Pandemic
2021/02/05
How I Made It: Omar Apollo
2021/02/02
Decriminalizing The War On Drugs
2021/01/29
In The Mouth Of The Wolf
2021/01/26
Goya In Three Boycotts
2021/01/22
President Biden Has Promises To Keep
2021/01/19
Selena And Me
2021/01/15
Portrait Of: Gabby Rivera
2021/01/12
City Of Oil
2021/01/08
How I Made It: Jessie Reyez
2021/01/05
Portrait Of: Residente
2021/01/01
Unjust And Unsolved: JJ Velazquez
2020/12/29
A Socially Distant Christmas Special
2020/12/25
From Cop To Progressive Prosecutor: George Gascón
2020/12/22
Equations For Liberation, A Conversation With Kelly Lytle Hernandez
2020/12/18
How I Made It: From Med School Student To Cimafunk
2020/12/15
The Amazon's Burning Libraries
2020/12/11
Getting Real About Pregnancy
2020/12/08
Ilia Calderón: My Skin Color Doesn't Define Me
2020/12/04
How I Made It: La Doña
2020/12/01
By Right Of Discovery
2020/11/27
Kate's Summer
2020/11/24
Portrait Of: Gloria Estefan
2020/11/20
How I Made It: From Foster Kid to Judge
2020/11/17
The Myth Of The 'Latino Vote'
2020/11/13
How I Made It: Las Cafeteras
2020/11/10
Reclaiming Our Homes
2020/11/06
The American Dream Daughter: A Conversation With Author Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
2020/11/03
A Third Of The Latino Vote
2020/10/30
Breaking Down The U.S. Deportation Machine
2020/10/27
Why Campaigns Fail To Get Latinos To Vote
2020/10/23
Portrait Of: Danny Trejo
2020/10/20
The Rehab Empire Built On Cakes
2020/10/16
How I Made It: Buscabulla
2020/10/13
The Matter Of Castro Tum
2020/10/09
The Parents Are Not Alright
2020/10/06
From Chicago To Oaxaca
2020/10/02
How I Made It: Chicano Batman
2020/09/29
Estrella, Revisited
2020/09/25
The Breakdown: The Spell Of Yma Sumac
2020/09/22
'Hatemonger': Author Jean Guerrero On Stephen Miller
2020/09/18
A Conversation With Maria Hinojosa And Lulu Garcia-Navarro
2020/09/15
Alzheimer's In Color
2020/09/11
How I Made It: A Trip To Sesame Street With Rosita
2020/09/08
How I Made It: Lido Pimienta On 'Miss Colombia'
2020/09/04
The Strange Death Of José De Jesús, Part 2
2020/09/01
The Strange Death Of José De Jesús, Part 1
2020/08/28
José Ralat, Taco Editor
2020/08/21
The Migrant Student Club
2020/08/18
Reporter's Notebook: Puerto Ricans Living In The Center Of The COVID-19 Outbreak
2020/08/14
The Children Of Smithfield
2020/08/11
After The Mississippi Raids
2020/08/07
Alice Bag And A Quinceañera Reimagined
2020/08/04
And They Will Inherit It
2020/07/31
How I Made It: Kichwa Hatari
2020/07/28
Portrait Of: Anthony Ramos
2020/07/24
Allyship And #BlackLivesMatter: A Conversation Across Cultures
2020/07/21
In The Bronx, A Progressive Battleground
2020/07/17
Kat Von D At Home
2020/07/14
Omar Jimenez: On Air And Under Arrest
2020/07/10
Portrait Of: Arca
2020/07/07
Bobby Sanabria Reimagines West Side Story
2020/07/03
I'm Not Dead
2020/06/30
How Brazil Became The Epicenter Of COVID-19
2020/06/26
DACA Stands, But The Future Is Anything But Certain
2020/06/24
Resistance And Loss In The Age Of COVID-19 With Edwidge Danticat
2020/06/19
The Lone Legislator
2020/06/17
Rosa Clemente On Allyship And Confronting Anti-Blackness
2020/06/12
How Puerto Rican Scientists Hacked The COVID-19 Response
2020/06/09
Willie Perdomo Comes Home
2020/06/05
Dispatch From Atlanta's Nights Of Protests
2020/06/03
Love & Walkouts
2020/06/02
A Moment On The Farm
2020/05/29
The Moving Border: Part Two, The South
2020/05/27
Inside An Intensive Care Unit In The Heart Of The Pandemic
2020/05/22
The Moving Border: Part One, The North
2020/05/20
Behind The Scenes With Documented
2020/05/14
At The Mercy Of The Courts
2020/05/13
Latino-Owned And Without A Lifeline, Small Businesses Struggle To Survive
2020/05/08
Portrait Of: Immortal Technique
2020/05/06
Portrait Of: Enrique Bunbury
2020/05/01
Across The River From Boston
2020/04/28
With You, Peru
2020/04/24
Hola Papi's Advice For Life In Self-Isolation
2020/04/21
Reporter's Notebook: Afro-Puerto Ricans Fighting To Be Visible On The Census
2020/04/17
With Sanders Out, What Happens To The Latino Vote Now?
2020/04/15
Intuition
2020/04/10
Immigrants In ICE Detention Face The Threat Of COVID-19
2020/04/07
The Remarkable Rebirth Of Medellín
2020/04/01
Checking Up On The Clinic During COVID-19
2020/03/27
For Immigrant Communities, Coronavirus Is A Different Kind Of Threat
2020/03/25
From Boyle Heights To Netflix... And Back To The Neighborhood
2020/03/20
An Acid Attack In Milwaukee
2020/03/18
The Few Let In To Wait
2020/03/13
Sanders, Biden, And The Latino Vote
2020/03/12
The Election Glitch That Sparked A Dominican Uprising
2020/03/06
Portrait Of: Residente
2020/03/03
The Persistent Problem Of Hunger
2020/02/28
How I Made It: Yasser Tejeda & Palotré
2020/02/25
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