Liz Alarcón: We’re back. Welcome to season four of the Pulso Podcast.  Maribel Quezada Smith: Hola, hola. Bienvenidos y bienvenidas, ya estamos de regreso. Liz Alarcón: We’re so excited. We’ve been hard at work with our heads down, producing really interesting episodes that will continue to share the…

Eight-time Grammy Award-winning Cuban Icon Gloria Estefan has won many accolades in her life. Her latest: becoming the first Latina inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Estefan has been topping international charts since the 80s, with hits like her signature “Conga.” And in 1988, she achieved her…

Of course there are Latin Americans of Asian descent and Asian Latinos in the U.S., but we’re talking about moments in history when Asian and Latino communities came together as one. We worked and fought… …side by side as immigrant laborers in the late 1800s when Mexican workers…

Desi Arnaz was born in Cuba to a wealthy and powerful family. But his story became one of riches to rags when his father was jailed and the family fled to the U.S. But setbacks weren’t going to keep him down… At 16-years-old, Desi worked odd jobs to…

New York City was once dotted with symbols honoring our heritage — porcelain enamel medallions painted with the coat of arms of different countries in North, Central and South America — but now they’re almost gone. In 1945, New York City’s Sixth Avenue — a major thoroughfare in Manhattan, was…

If you’ve heard the phrase “they’re stealing our jobs,” it’s likely you heard it said about immigrants, particularly immigrants of color. The phrase has been co-opted to be a political statement, which — given its origins — is ironic. “They’re stealing our jobs” was actually a satirical meme…

At the westernmost point of the U.S.-Mexico border lies Friendship Park, a binational space that has historically allowed people on both sides to gather at the border. After decades of bittersweet reunions, Friendship Park became a symbol of unity, and for a long time, was often the only…

Liz Alarcón: Maribel, can you believe it’s already December? Didn’t this year fly by? Maribel Quezada Smith: Absolutely, I feel like once we hit June, it was over. Liz Alarcón: I know, it’s probably because of the post-pandemic life that we’ve actually been more out there this year.…

Liz Alarcón: It’s August 1951, in a little town called Edna, Texas, and a crime is about to take place. Maribel Quezada Smith: A young Mexican American farmhand named Pete Hernandez walks into Chinco Sanchez’s Tavern with a rifle. He points it at a man named Joe Espinoza,…

Source: Politico When 125,000 Cubans arrived in Florida in the Mariel boatlift of 1980, they were looking for a future that looked brighter than what seemed possible for them in Cuba. They boarded rented shrimp and fishing boats and headed to the U.S. But, the residents of Miami-Dade…