An icon of our time has passed. Puerto Rican astrologer Walter Mercado Salinas, who delivered daily horoscopes and instilled the message of âmucho, mucho amor!â in generations of fans and followers, died Saturday night, Nov. 2, at Auxilio Mutuo Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico, according to Sofia…
Despite having passed credible fear screening, a Cuban asylum seeker became the seventh adult to die in Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) this year. Roylan Hernandez-Diaz was found dead at a detention center in Louisiana on Oct. 15, and ICE officials released a statement the next day pronouncing his…
The self proclaimed âworldâs only all-Latina film festivalâ Señorita Cinema, takes place in Houston this weekend from Nov. 1-3. The biannual festival began in 2007 and is a product of founder Stephanie Saint Sanchezâs lifelong passion for filmmaking, according to spectrumsouth.com. It all started when she was given…
An estimated 250,000 Salvadorans in danger of having to return to their home country after President Donald Trump ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) now have legal authority to remain and work in the U.S. for one more year. The Oct. 28 decision is part of the administrationâs strategy…
Twenty-two people whose lives were cut short by a mass shooter at an El Paso Walmart shopping center on Aug. 3 are being memorialized at the very location where the tragedy occurred. At least two dozen other people were injured, with most of the victims of Latinx heritage…
Children continue to be separated from their families at the Mexico and U.S. border, and recent figures have the total number of these children at over 5,400. Since the Trump administration started this practice in July of 2017, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said on Thursday, October…
HIV infection rates have increased for Latinxs in recent years, causing sufficient alarm in the health community for the issue to be labeled an âinvisible crisis.â While Latinxs represented almost 18% of the entire U.S. population in 2017, they accounted for 26% of the nearly 40,000 new HIV…
Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma, a native Honduran who was injured at the collapse of a Round Rock Cafe in New Orleans on Oct. 12, was detained by immigration authorities after he shared plans to sue the hotel with a television news station, his lawyers said. He is one…
A Honduran woman alleges a former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer raped her for seven years, sometimes as frequently as four times a week, and threatened to deport her if she spoke out about the abuse. She claims in the Oct. 19 lawsuit that she was impregnated…
The Department of Housing and Urban Development knowingly missed a legal deadline to provide Puerto Rico much-needed relief funding following Hurricane Maria. The admittance by Irv Dennis, HUD chief financial officer, and David Woll, the departmentâs deputy assistant secretary for community planning and development, was a result of…
