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Banning Lenten processions of the Stations of the Cross from Nicaragua’s streets and plazas is just the latest front in President Daniel Ortega’s war on the Catholic Church.

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Nicaragua’s Ortega versus the Catholic Church

Mexico's president is upset with the Biden administration over its latest human rights report which highlights a series of violations from forced disappearance by government agents, torture, arbitrary arrest or detention, as well as restrictions on free expression and media and extremely low rates of prosecution.

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Hiding reality

Cuban baseball today seems a reminder of the island's massive youth exodus — which ought to make it a handy showcase of what Cuban exiles protest. This Cuban crew is largely a team drawn from a rapidly shrinking pool of talented youth who in recent years have been abandoning their communist country in droves.

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Exiles should welcome Cuba's baseball team to Miami. As a prop, it's a hit

President Biden’s recent budget proposal will help minority-owned enterprises to build opportunity and narrow racial wealth gaps. But we must do more to increase access to capital for those overlooked by traditional banks.

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We must protect Latino small business growth

The social networks have transformed journalism. No one waits for the evening news or the morning newspaper to find out what's going on around the world. But, our principal social responsibility as journalists remains the same; to question people in power, as well as to inform with precision and truth.

"Social media has transformed journalism." Credit: Bethany Clarke/Getty Images

Rules for tweeting

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Daniel Ortega stole the house where he lives, stole the citizenship of hundreds of political prisoners and stole the democracy that cost Nicaraguans so much work and so many deaths. But don't count Nicaragua out. It's a country that knows how to drive out dictators.

Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo (Eng)

The Nicaraguan thief

It’s a more than apt coincidence that Chávez’s memory is in the news now as Florida’s legislature convenes to propose laws that, if enacted, would press their own boot heel on free speech.

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A decade after Chávez's death, DeSantis pushes a Chavista demise of free speech

López Obrador has been president since 2018 yet he still blames Mexico's problems on past presidents, including the high murder rate. We have to look to the future. The next leader of Mexico must make it his or her priority to stop the murders of so many Mexicans.

Lopez Obrador (Eng)

 López Obrador's key failure

Reality check: It is absurd to believe that the border between Mexico and the United States can be totally closed. We have to look at the border situation in a different way as the poorest and the most vulnerable move to countries that are wealthier, more stable and safer.

El Paso border fence rescue, June 2022

This is not an invasion

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Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, was recently sentenced to 26 years in prison after he chose not to leave the country along with 222 political prisoners. The United States should immediately call for the release and protection of Bishop Álvarez for as long as he chooses to remain in Nicaragua defending human dignity, religious freedom, and resistance to government abuses of power.

Bishop Rolando Álvarez (Eng)

Biden administration must confront Nicaragua’s assault on religious freedom

Cuba's Miguel Díaz-Canel received the Aztec Eagle, Mexico's highest medal for foreigners – and a tight embrace from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. He's backing the dark and wrong side of history.

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A hug for a dictator

I came to Washington to listen to and report on Biden's State of the Union Address. But in truth, the speech was about the enormous lack of unity that exists in the United States. In my 40 years in this country, I have never seen politics so polarized.

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Trump, Biden or neither

Democracies are fragile. Today there are many more democracies than a century ago, but even a democracy in existence for more than two centuries, like the United States, runs risks.

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The infiltrators

The urgency to reform our badly outdated immigration system is more evident every day, yet a serious conversation about solutions will not be found among these GOP members.

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How upcoming House GOP hearings will mainstream dangerous conspiracies

Every time I hear about a mass shooting, my heart races until I know where it happened. Then comes the tortuous routine. I rush to the TV studio, listen to the reports of dead and a short history of the shooter, learn how he obtained the weapon, go to the funerals of the victims, the politicians promise to do something … and nothing happens.

A woman mourns at a memorial with crosses and flowers for victims of the Uvalde school shooting Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

Massacres: the American nightmare

During a recent meeting in Mexico with president Joe Biden and Canada's Justin Trudeau, their host hogged the microphone. Mexican media calculated that Lopez Obrador spoke for a total of 41 minutes during the public ceremonies, compared to 14 for Biden and 12 for Trudeau.

Lopez Obrador with Biden and Trudeau, Jan 2023

The 28-minute answer

Latinos are looking to policymakers to work together and support policies that will tame inflation and grow the economy, ensure access to affordable health care and modernize the immigration system.

US Capitol building floodlit at night

These are the measures the 118th Congress needs to pass to ensure all Americans can live out their American Dream

"I left Mexico 40 years ago because of censorship... The US gave me opportunities that my birth country never could. As foreigners, we learn to live with rejection... And today I know of no other way to live.

Jorge Ramos, 40 years in the US

Forty years in the United States

Biden and AMLO know what is essential: that Mexico and the United States are tied so tightly together that the only solution is to learn how to live together.

President Biden Meets Obrador, July 2022

Biden in Mexico

We all lost something with the death of Alex. But I never heard a more heartbreaking cry than my mother's, at night, sitting on the edge of her bed, after a long day of condolences.

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My roommate


Maximum pressure failed in Venezuela. For as untrustworthy and criminally depraved as the Maduro government may be, absent the use of U.S. military power to effect regime change, continued international pressure to get the government and the opposition to a negotiating table is the only recourse the international community has, if it wants to address the devastating humanitarian crisis Maduro and Co. have wrought.

Maduro negotiations 2021

Venezuela policy: time to trust but verify as we loosen sanctions

The United States is an increasingly diverse country. By 2044, perhaps before, the non-Hispanic white population will no longer be the majority. Unfortunately, part of the U.S. population views that growing diversity as an imminent threat.

New York's Washington Heights

Where are you from?

The opposition has done everything possible to remove the Maduro dictatorship but nothing has worked. It's necessary therefore that the 2024 presidential elections be supervised by international organizations. (
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How to get rid of a tyrant. Finally, a way out for Venezuela

"Employers of all kinds are not paying Latinas equitably, and they all need to be called out. No matter what way the data is sliced and diced, Latinas working in every sector and in every industry, regardless of education level, are being paid dramatically less than their white male counterparts. 54 cents to the dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic male workers was the average for all Latinas with reported earnings in 2021".

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Stop Putting the Pay Gap on Latinas – We are not the Problem

AMLO is a strong president. But when he leaves office in 2024 his legacy will be a divided, polarized and violent country.

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The Mexico of the two marches

The support among Latino voters for immigrant rights stretches well beyond Mexican Americans and Democrats. But many in the Republican Party seem ready to give Donald Trump another try.

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It's time for GOP to decide if it is serious about attracting Latino voters

Former Vice President Mike Pence had his differences with President Donald Trump but he kept them private out of a deep sense of loyalty. But that's over now.

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Mike Pence: when you disagree with El Jefe

Following a series of scandals the DEA needs to be made more accountable in the foreign policy hierarchy. Ambassadors should have more say.

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Diplomats frustrated by the DEA's dark side

The World Cup is here. The hopes for Qatar and other countries in that region is that the international pressures and the contact with thousands of fans from around the world will motivate them to change their laws. But, it's very difficult to change an authoritarian regime from the outside.

World Cup 2022

Despite it all the soccer balls roll

Every country, city, and individual will be affected by the climate crisis – but it won’t affect everyone equally.

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Extreme weather has displaced millions. Will our leaders address it at COP27?

For now we can breathe. Despite the tantrums, skulduggery and lies by Trump and his deniers, the US system of democracy worked in 2020 and now in 2022.

Trump and the big lie

The Deniers

Just like Donald Trump and the 2020 elections in the US, AMLO keeps talking about allegations of fraud in Mexico's 2006 elections. That may explain his frequent attacks on electoral authorities. But, the same institution that certified the 2006 elections validated López Obrador's victory in 2018, with more than 30 million votes.

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The referee must be protected (at election time)

Latin American Foreign Ministers give short shrift to consolidating democracy among their regional priorities.

CELAC summit 2022

Hey CELAC, where’s the Democratic beef?

The promises of Democrats to the Hispanic/Latino community are wearing thin. The mid-term elections could bury hope of any immigration reform for the next two years.

Immigration Protest 2021

The cost of promising too much and not delivering

Latinos are poised to become a political powerhouse with Latino and Latina leaders at every level of government. However, Hispanics make up 20 percent of the population, but less than 10 percent of Congress.

US Rep Linda Sanchez (Eng)

Why Latina representation is imperative

In his latest movie, 
Bardo, Oscar Award-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu explores the conflicts and tensions of those of us who inhabit two countries at the same time.

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Bardo, or the one who left

President Biden is likely to avert the mass deportation of DACA recipients and Dreamers. But what they need is a law rather than another temporary program that will likely be blocked by the courts.

DACA protest

Only a bipartisan deal this year can save the Dreamers

Racism within the Latin community is an open secret. It is an awkward issue, seldom mentioned in public. It happens in Latin America – the region with the world's worst inequality.

Demonstrators Demand Resignations For L.A. City Council Members

In the face of racism, we cannot remain silent

It is difficult to understand why Florida is so attractive after hurricanes like Ian, Michael in 2018 and Andrew in 1992. But over the past five years Florida has received more transplants from other parts of the United States than any other state.

Hurricane Ian Fort Myers beach

Lessons of a hurricane

Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard is demonstrating that it’s not ‘do business or be good to the Earth.’ It’s ‘do business AND be good to the Earth.’

Patagonia CEO Yvon Chouinard

What can we learn from Patagonia’s CEO on aligning success and social impact?

On the question of whether Latinos are better off today than when President Joe Biden came into office, the answer is yes.

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Are Latinos better off today than when Biden took office?

It's impossible to blame Venezuelans who flee their country. On the contrary, we should give them safe haven and protection.

Migrant Border Arizona, 2022

The indomitable border

El autor visitó Brasil y tomó el pulso de algunos grupos ante las elecciones presidenciales de este domingo.

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 Un llamado a vigilar las candidaturas contestatarias en Brasil

Since president Lopez Obrador took office in December 2018, 126,206 Mexicans were murdered, according to reports by the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Safety System.

2022 and AMLO at Mexico Independence Day Parade

The government of the dead

As long as we don’t accept responsibility for the power we have over Puerto Rico, these issues aren’t going to get better.

Puerto Rico after Fiona

The devastation of hurricane Fiona is our fault

A world without kings and queens is much better. More free, more democratic, more diverse, more egalitarian.

Queen Elizabeth (Eng)

For a world without Kings or Queens

"A pesar de la oferta de mejores salarios, el pago de mudanzas, bonos anuales y semanas escolares de cuatro días, varios distritos escolares siguen teniendo dificultades para contratar profesores calificados. Las escuelas han optado por soluciones temporales que resultan controversiales".

Una maestra con sus alumnas en una escuela de Louisville, Kentucky en enero de 2022.

¿Quién quiere ser maestro?

One year ago El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender to spur foreign investment and economic growth. The results have not lived up to the promises of President Bukele.

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Bitcoin is Robin Hood in reverse for the Salvadoran poor

The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega is more ensconced in power than ever. It's time to intensify pressure on his regime.

Ortega and Murillo SANDINISTA 40TH ANNIVERSARY

Nicaragua’s descent to darkness

Nothing is private any more. Beware, there is always a camera watching. Just ask Sanna Marin.

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When no one is watching

"De las cinco causas judiciales que enfrenta la vicepresidenta, esta es la primera que avanza en un juicio en el que la Fiscalía pide una condena tan contundente. Y ya es un logro que la justicia argentina haya llegado a este punto en un caso contra una de las figuras más poderosas en la historia reciente del país. Pero ha tardado mucho tiempo. Desde la primera denuncia en 2008 hasta el pedido de condena de la Fiscalía, ya han transcurrido 14 años".

Cristina Fernandez Faces Trial on Alleged Corruption Case

El veredicto: ¿de la justicia o de las urnas?

The United States continues to be the main refuge for the entire continent. The U.S. urgently needs to increase the number of migrants who can legally enter the country. The country can easily absorb them; they create jobs, pay taxes and take the jobs that no one else wants. Everyone wins.

Rio Grande Valley, Texas border crossing 2021

The river where dreams drown

To reduce the spread of misinformation, election officials should conduct campaigns in a timely manner to educate voters, create rumor control websites where possible, and connect with trusted messengers and spokespeople to reach local communities.

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Latino voters at high risk for misinformation in midterm elections

The militarization of Mexico has not brought good results and is endangering a country that suffered under authoritarian regimes for 71 years.

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Get the Army out of the streets

The FBI search of Donald Trump's home for classified documents may be another nail in the coffin of his political career. Surely he will not overcome millions of people ready to do the right thing. "That's the bet: a future without Trump."

Donald Trump speaking Wisconsin Aug 5, 2022

A future without Trump

Haiti is on the edge of collapse as gang violence has erupted all over the capital leaving hundreds of dead and wounded in recent weeks and a population living in perpetual terror. The United States has a history of intervention in Haiti, so what is holding back President Biden?

Summit Of Americas Ariel Henry / Haiti

Haiti: “If this is life, what is hell?”

On July 29, Guatemalan agents raided the house of my father, veteran, award-winning journalist José Rubén Zamora. His fate now rests in the hands of a judge, trapped in a judicial system that is under increasing pressure from the forces of official corruption.

José Rubén Zamora arrest July 29, 2022

Democracy’s last line of defense

As the public returns to traveling after the end of Covid lockdowns, it's been a chaotic time for airlines. Flight delays are also causing havoc with suitcases. Best advice: travel light.

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The secret lives of luggage

Singing in Cuba is dangerous. And so is posting something on your social networks that the dicatorship does not like. About 700 Cubans remain in prison from the July 11 protests last year.

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