As we begin our third week of confinement to keep our families safe from coronavirus, your “5 Essential Updates” include: How the stimulus package leaves many of us out, our respects to farmworkers, reminders of guidelines to remain healthy, how we can help, and a timely corrido to…

In the midst of this Coronavirus pandemic, there’s a lot of misinformation. To combat that, the Pulso staff has curated updates in order to provide you with helpful and insightful resources for navigating this moment. Each week we’ll send you essential coronavirus-related information, resources and a touch of…

Almost overnight, “American Dirt” went from one of the most anticipated novels of 2020, to one of the most contested. Written by Jeanine Cummins, the book tells the story of a Mexican family fleeing cartel violence and their journey across the border. Cummins, who up until recently identified…

The creation of a new super political action committee (PAC) that focuses on Latino youth engagement was announced on Monday, January 13, aimed at empowering Latinos to fight Trump’s 2020 candidacy. This super PAC, Latinos United (ALU), will focus on defeating President Trump in the 2020 elections, during…

January marks Human Trafficking Awareness Month, and January 11 is national day of human trafficking, designated to reaffirm a commitment to stop modern slavery and trafficking. While the vast majority of cases reported are related to sex exploitation, trafficking happens whenever an employer uses force, fraud or coercion…

Thousands of musicians are standing in solidarity with immigrants and vowing not to work with Amazon. Their campaign “No Music for ICE” rallies against Amazon because of the company’s contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that keeps the government agency running. The boycott is part of…

Puerto Rico was rattled by a 6.4 -magnitude earthquake Tuesday morning. The shake caused infrastructural damage to the US territory, and one death on the southwestern coast of the island including Guánica, Guayanilla, and Ponce. This quake was the largest in a string of several over the past…

Julián Castro, the only Latino candidate in the Democratic primary, dropped out of the presidential race on Thursday, a decision which has prompted more conversations around the diversity of the Democratic party and the impact the candidate made in the year since announcing his campaign. Supporters, including presidential…

Puerto Rico has suffered most from climate change in the past decade. At the beginning of December, an environmental think-tank, GermanWatch published its annual Climate Change Risk Index, which poses the question “who suffers most from extreme weather events?” After consulting close to 400 climate experts, this Risk…