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Virginia Garcia clinic cuts and adapts as immigrants go uninsured

Layoffs come as the health center sees more patients forgo coverage due to a ‘chilling effect’ from Trump’s immigration rhetoric and ‘public charge’ policy Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center has cut 34 jobs and frozen 47 open positions across its netw ...

25 Oct 2019 - Christen McCurdy
How Roma is inspiring fairer treatment of domestic workers in Mexico

COMMENTARY | Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar-winning movie highlights the struggle of the profession Mexico City, 1970. Cleo’s alarm sounds very early in the morning. She gets up and climbs down the stairs from her rooftop room in the upper-middle-class house wher ...

1 Mar 2019 - Karina Patricio... and Arely Cruz-Santiago
'Generaciones' musical highlights local Latino artists

VOZ ALTA is a storytelling project that features the personal lives of Portland’s Latino community through interwoven narrative and live music Latino Network presents "VOZ ALTA: Generaciones," a dramatization of the lives of Latino artists Rodol ...

3 Aug 2018 - Latino Network
The El Paso Chronicles: Three essays from the Mexican border

Celebrating 'abrazos no muros' ('hugs not walls') to bring families together The nonprofit Border Network of Human Rights, dedicated to educating and organizing El Paso, Texas, residents and migrants, holds one of the most emotional ev ...

27 Jul 2018 - Iñaki Estívaliz
To keep their daughters safe from kidnapping, parents in Argentina created a school bus system

After numerous disappearances, a bus now transports young girls between a slum in Bajo Flores and school Layla Nayeli Sainz Fernández was kidnapped twice within 10 months. She was first kidnapped in 2015, when she was 13 years old, and then again in 2016, ...

25 May 2018 - Vivi Vallejos
No-cause evictions imminent at North Portland apartments; tenants push back

Some residents are suing the landlords of The Melrose apartments in St. Johns, claiming their ouster is retaliatory and discriminatory Life is somewhere between hard and heartbreak for the majority-Latino tenants remaining in The Melrose apartments, where ...

26 Jan 2018 - Thacher Schmid
Día de Muertos: It’s not ‘Mexican Halloween’

Portland’s UNA Gallery is taking back Day of the Dead with performance art and celebration Having grown up in Mexico City, Portland gallery owner Mercedes Orozco fondly remembers celebrating Día de Muertos with her family and neighbors at the beginning of ...

27 Oct 2017 - Emily Green