Patricia Guadalupe

El 2020 es un año electoral importante, pues los votantes decidirán darle al Presidente Trump otro periodo o votar a un candidato diferente. ¿Qué dicen los empresarios latinos al respecto? ¿El actual clima político les dificulta hacer negocios, o no?
El año 2020 trae consigo el comienzo no oficial de una importante temporada electoral en Estados Unidos, cuando los votantes decidirán si le dan al presidente Trump otro mandato o si apoyarán al candidato del Partido Demócrata, a sabiendas de que...

During his presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised that his administration would “look like the country,” and that includes appointing outstanding and well-qualified Latinos to positions in his Cabinet and other senior-level positions.
President Biden’s choices are a direct change from his most immediate predecessor. Donald Trump was the first president since Ronald Reagan to not include a Latino or Latina in his initial list of Cabinet picks. Alex Acosta joined the Trump Administration as ...

For Vicki O’Leary, it all started with a bet. Back in the 1980s, the now-General Organizer and Director of Diversity at the Ironworkers International union was at home hanging out at the dinner table with her ironworker dad when her older brother said, “You can’t do what me and Dad do.” Vicki naturally disagreed. That brother, her dad, and several other relatives were already ironworkers but none were women.
“You know how older brothers can get! My brother bet me that I couldn’t do it and so ...

Earlier this year, the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) held its first in-person national conference since the pandemic hit. It was an unequivocal success, and the Latino business leaders who came to Las Vegas unanimously praised the leadership of USHCC board chair Alice Rodriguez of JPMorgan Chase, and Ramiro Cavazos, the organization’s president and CEO.
“I was very impressed about the way they did it,” said Danny Vargas, an entrepreneur based in northern Virginia who counts the bu...

Connect. Learn. Share. Network. Those four words are the modus operandi of the National Hispanic Corporate Council (NHCC), which counts itself as “the premier resource for corporate America on maximizing the Hispanic market opportunity.”
Based in Washington, DC, the NHCC was founded in 1985 by executives of twelve Fortune 500 companies who felt there was a need to educate corporate America about the emerging Latino market, recalls Executive Director Eduardo Arabu.
Prior to taking the helm of ...

Some may not know that Latinos settled in the Southwest long before the Pilgrims landed, or that Bernardo de Galvez helped win the Revolutionary War, or that we’ve won more Congressional Medals of Honor than any other minority group. Having a place where all can learn about Latino history -- and how it’s inseparable from American history – moved one step closer when Congress unanimously approved the creation of the National Museum of the American Latino in December 2020. It will be nuestro mu...

WASHINGTON — One of the nation's first syndicated Latino cartoonists was honored at a ceremony Tuesday at the Library of Congress, the recipient of the one of the nation's top prizes in editorial cartooning.
Los Angeles-based political cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz is the first Latino to be awarded the prestigious Herblock Prize, a $15,000 award named after the late Washington Post syndicated editorial cartoonist Herb Block. Known as “Herblock,” he was best known for his commentaries on domestic an...

One of the country's first syndicated Latino cartoonists has received a top prize for editorial cartooning.
Lalo Alcaraz, a Los Angeles-based political cartoonist, is the first Latino recipient of the prestigious Herblock Prize in recognition of his editorial cartooning and his "passion, dedication and brilliance" in covering civil rights and other issues affecting U.S. Latinos.
The $15,000 award, announced Thursday by the Herb Block Foundation, is named after the late Washington Post syndica...

WASHINGTON — Lázaro Bosch is a recent college graduate doing an internship with NASA — an opportunity that wouldn’t have been possible if it didn't include a paycheck.
"Not only did a paid internship allow me to relocate to D.C., but also not turn down the internship — if I wouldn’t be getting paid, there is no way I would have been able to take it, as I wouldn’t have been able to support myself and my family," said Bosch, 22, who grew up in Miami and helps his mother financially.
Lázaro Bosc...

A solid majority of U.S. Latinos say they plan to get the coronavirus vaccination or already have got it, which is a markedly different scenario from earlier in the year, when skepticism and mistrust were a much greater challenge.
This is great news, community leaders and Latino legislators say, but access to vaccinations continues to be a hurdle.
A survey by the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C., finds that 70 percent of Latinos are planning to be vaccinated or have already received sh...

Congressional hearings on a debt relief bill for Puerto Rico began Wednesday after a House bill was redrafted in response to complaints from conservative lawmakers and the island’s government.
The new bill from the House Committee on Natural Resources would allow Puerto Rico’s creditors to vote on any debt-restructuring plan, giving them new leverage in any settlement on its $72 billion debt, which the local government says it cannot pay.
“This is the constitutionally sound solution that will...

This week I called down to Puerto Rico as part of research for a story and the person who answered the phone told me in Spanish, “Nobody’s here honey, it’s Holy Week. In fact I’m about to put on the answering machine. Call back next week.”
And that got me thinking after years of living in the States, I had almost forgotten how everything grinds to a halt during Semana Santa — Holy Week — in Puerto Rico, especially on Good Friday leading up to Easter Sunday.
It’s an official government holiday...

WASHINGTON — While Covid-19 continues to disproportionately affect communities of color, skepticism and mistrust about the vaccine are real issues to tackle, White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said.
Latinos and Blacks account for hospitalization rates around three times that of whites and they are twice as likely to die from the disease, according to recent figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Their chances of being hospitalized and dying is considera...

Marta Jiménez counts herself as one of the lucky ones. Marta, who asked not to use her real name because she is undocumented, first came to Washington, D.C., from Central America nearly 30 years ago on a tourist visa and overstayed, eventually getting married to a fellow undocumented immigrant and raising three daughters born in the United States who are now adults and on their own. Marta gets by with money from babysitting and cleaning houses after a divorce ten years ago left her with littl...

En español | Supporters of a museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., that focuses on one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups in the United States are calling the enactment of an economic stimulus bill that includes money to jump-start a Latino museum a historic moment.
The legislation, which includes $35 million this fiscal year to start the process and continue it for years to come, was passed last week as part of a $2.3 trillion omnibus spending bill and signed into law Sunday. Th...