In July 2024, then nineteen-year-old Nixon Azuaje-Pérez picked up spent bullet casings after a shooting outside his apartment in Aurora, Colorado. It was a decision that would thrust the Venezuelan ...

Last year, reporter Jack Herrera traveled the length of the Rio Grande basin – from its source in Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico. He found that the water crisis in the region is worse than anyone ...

Before 86-year-old Luis Valdez directed the play “Zoot Suit” and the film “La Bamba”, he was staging theater in ...

Jason Chang is the author of Chino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico. In this segment, he sits down with host Maria Hinojosa to discuss the history of Chinese migration to Mexico, first in the 1800s and ...

On May 5, 1993, the first episode of Latino USA aired on more than 50 public radio stations across the country. Today, we are celebrating 30 Years of Latino USA with something we’ve never done before: ...

This week, we’re presenting the first episode of “The Network,” a series that Latino USA co-produced with NPR’s Embedded. In the mid-1980s, an OBGYN in Brazil noticed that far fewer pregnant women at ...

When Harvey Guillén auditioned for the vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows, he had to convince the powers that be he was right for the role of Guillermo de la Cruz. Guillermo is the human ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, a group of poets in New York City created a movement. As New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent, they called themselves the Nuyorican poets, reclaiming a word once used as a slur ...

In 2018, Producer Jeanne Montalvo was a new mother looking back at all the decisions her parents made when raising her. Namely, the differences in how Jeanne and her brother looked at and embraced the ...

Eugenio Derbez is one of the most famous Mexican artists and comedians of our generation. He is a well-known name across Latin America, as well as in Spanish-speaking households here in the U.S. But ...

“The hunting of Latinos.” That’s how the mayor of Los Angeles described the last few months of increasingly violent immigration raids. They’re the brainchild of a Border Patrol chief who went rogue.

In most of the country, when someone says they are going to Coachella it means they are going to the incredibly popular music festival where girls wear jean shorts and flower crowns. But for many who ...