Last year was a difficult year globally, but 2016 will not be much better for Latin America. Due to enormous political tension, power struggles, soaring inflation and falling currencies and commodities, the region became the worst-performing emerging market in 2015. Unfortunately, the World Bank has projected earlier this month that the region wouldn’t grow at all this year.
The New York Immigration Coalition’s Education Collaborative joined up with New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to announce the placement of new translation and interpretation support programs for the city’s large immigrant population.
Regularly scheduled flights between the United States and Cuba may now only be a few months away, the vice president of regulatory affairs for the world's largest airline predicted this week.
Lawyers for imprisoned Mexican drug lord Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán are fighting his extradition to the U.S. by citing Donald Trump’s “hostility” toward Mexicans.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders disclosed his “Medicare-for-all” plan, which the Vermont senator says will save the country $6 trillion over the next 10 years.
Following the fourth Democratic presidential primary debate, there are winners and losers, from speaking times, social media influence and overall presentation.
The New York Police Department is looking for the young men responsible for hospitalizing a Muslim man in the Bronx on Friday, while civil rights group are calling for the FBI to step in and launch a hate crime probe.
The recent uptick in the federal government's immigration enforcement measures have many families of undocumented immigrants worried, even though the number of deportations carried out by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) so far is only in the low triple digits.
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that a baby with microcephaly was recently born in Oahu, Hawaii. It is the first reported case of the birth defect linked with the Zika virus in the country.
United Airlines president and CEO, Oscar Munoz was released from the hospital after a successful heart transplant surgery last Jan. 6. The airline released a statement from Munoz on Friday saying that the CEO is heading back to his Chicago home and will be back in the office very soon.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recently issued a travel warning for 14 Latin American nations and Caribbean territories that have exposed to Zika virus, a mosquito-borne virus connected to the increasing rate of birth defects in Brazil. The alert was issued late Friday and it includes Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela and Puerto Rico.
Representatives at the Community Based Care of Central Florida are calling the help of bilingual families to foster Spanish-speaking children that are taken into foster care.
Last Sunday's Tornadoes and storms in Florida killed two people and destroyed several homes. It has just been reported by EFE that a man and a woman died while inside their trailer home after the strong tornadoes hit Duette in Manatee County and several other towns in Florida.
Dianna Duran, the former Secretary of State of New Mexico, has been freed from jail after serving her 30-day jail term. The 60-year-old politician was found guilty of embezzlement and money laundering after admitting she used campaign money to pay off her debts incurred for gambling.
The Maricopa County's appeal was recently denied by the US Supreme Court after the court ruled that the county is a party in the racial profiling case of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Arpaio remains to be charged individually in a case which dates back in 2013.
Oxfam, an anti-poverty charity organization based in Oxford, England, has recently reported a significant increase regarding the wealth gap, inequality and the widening trust gap between people and their political leaders around the world. The data also showed that the world’s 62 richest people held half of the fortune in the world, a striking evidence that the poor are falling further behind the elites and the political fissures in the United States, Europe and the Middle East.
Cuban-American presidential candidate Marco Rubio recently defended his stance on immigration after being criticized for initially being soft about the matter, Breitbart reports. Now, Rubio is urging that undocumented immigrants should have the opportunity to stay compared to "criminal aliens."
Harry Styles is set to appear on "Keeping Up with the Kardashians." Having a girlfriend from a popular reality family stars, this must have been unavoidable.
More than a quarter million undocumented immigrants are said to be eligible for temporary protection as the Obama administration conducts deportation raids.
