Latinas + non-US news Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 20, 2009
Ana Maria Perez Gonzalez, said to be the oldest woman in the world, died in Mexico this week. She was 119.
November 10, 2009
Women play a bigger role in Mexico’s drug war – Addiction, the economy and the lure of living well have sucked many into the narcotics underworld. The trend threatens the foundations of Mexican society.
November 9, 2009
Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez detained, beaten on way to march
November 7, 2009
Report on Women’s Human Rights Violations Shows Systematic Attack on Women Under Honduran Coup
October 30, 2009
Mexican Political Prisoner Gloria Arenas Released
October 28, 2009
Mexico’s pink taxis cater to fed-up females – In colonial city of Pueblo, these cabs don’t stop for men
October 17, 2009
Más mujeres en estructuras de poder de Cuba
Cuidad Juárez killings: Women victims are new aspect of ongoing violence across border
October 14, 2009
MEXICO: Rural Poverty Has a Woman’s Face
A Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her country’s communist system said she was denied government permission Monday to travel to New York to receive a top journalism prize. – Yoani Sanchez
Decapitated body among 100 girls, women killed in Cuidad Juárez in ‘09 – “first time a woman has been decapitated and her body displayed in this manner” – (NOT GOOD but nothing seems to change) + The death toll in Juárez has surpassed the 1,900 mark for the year over the weekend, according to a tally kept by the El Paso Times.
October 12, 2009
Yoani Sánchez: ‘‘Mi vida está en otra Cuba, no en otra parte”
October 7, 2009
Love child turned critic, a daughter of Fidel Castro told a Widener University audience Monday that lifting 50-year embargoes imposed by the United States would do little to help suffering people in Cuba. – Alina Fernandez
October 5, 2009
Nobel Prize to Piedad Cordoba? – One of the most controversial figures in Colombia may be an odds-on favorite to win one of the world’s most prestigious awards.
Over the past year, an average of nine woman were murdered by their spouses, boyfriends or ex-partners each month in Peru and many of these crimes were motivated by jealousy
September 29, 2009
Live from Honduras: An Interview with Berta Caceres
September 22, 2009
Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho seeks protection for new threats
September 15, 2009
Argentina recalls 40,000 IUDs, may be contaminated
September 11, 2009
Border mothers angry over Mexican nominee for AG – say Arturo Chavez, did little to solve dozens of rapes and murders of women in Cuidad Juarez when he was Chihuahua state attorney general from 1996 to 1998.
September 1, 2009
Honduran Constitutional Assembly Would Be a Step Toward the Emancipation of Women
August 24, 2009
Cuban blogger the voice of youth-oriented counterculture – Yoani Sánchez
August 20, 2009
Coup Catalyzes Honduran Women’s Movement
August 5, 2009
Women in the small Andean town of Cajamarca and the nearby city of Ibagué, in the central-west Colombian province of Tolima, are leading the struggle against a major gold mining venture that threatens to alter their way of life.
July 22, 2009
Honduran Women at Forefront of Resistance to Coup
June 29, 2009
Ontario Convention Center Caters to Quinceañera Celebrations
June 5, 2009
Shakira’s Children – She has built five schools in her country since 2004 – (feature in NYT’s Magazine)
April 15, 2009
Peru: Mass Sterilizations During ex-president Alberto Fujimori Term
February 5, 2009
La revolución cultural de María Verónica – La artista guayaquileña compartió sus experiencias en el medio cultural europeo, durante una conferencia.
December 28, 2008
Laura Zuniga, Mexican Beauty Queen, Jailed, Stripped Of Title
December 12, 2008
A women’s rights activist who first drew attention to the slayings of young women in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez was named the winner of Mexico’s National Human Rights Award on Thursday. – Esther Chavez
December 10, 2008
On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Wednesday — a day when Cuban dissidents traditionally gather for protest marches — Belinda Salas, a leading Cuban activist, was beaten by Cuban police, she said via telephone in Havana.
December 6, 2008
Cuba Police Accuse Prominent Blogger Of Illegal Activity – Yoani Sánchez
Publicar temas sobre la violencia sexual hacia los niños y las niñas ha sido una labor difícil para la periodista Lydia Cacho, y es por eso que decidió escribir el libro “Con mi hij@ no”. Manual para prevenir, entender y sanar el abuso sexual”, que presentó el viernes en la Feria Internacional del Libro (FIL), en Guadalajara
December 5, 2008
Mexican men ask for an end to violence against women
Pain and Protest on the Day of the Butterflies: Violence Persists Against Women in Mexico
November 21, 2008
A women’s group presented thousands of signatures Thursday petitioning Cuba’s parliament to close the gap in the communist country’s dual economy, which pays state workers in Cuban pesos but offers basics like toilet paper in another currency that few can afford.
November 18, 2008
Hugo Chavez faces toughest political test … against his ex-wife
September 8, 2008
Bolivia’s Morales faces a challenge from fellow Indian – Savina Cuellar, a onetime livestock herder, proudly dons the broad-brimmed hat that marks her indigenous origins. She shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote in June. Indigenous activist Savina Cuellar, governor in the key province of Chuquisaca, has fallen out with the president and become a figurehead for those opposed to his socialist policies.
September 3, 2008
Doris Gibson, who 58 years ago founded Peru’s leading news magazine, has died at the age of 98. Her strength of character and determination helped the magazine withstand military dictatorships and repressive governments, as Dan Collyns reports.
August 28, 2008
Mexican Supreme Court upholds legalized abortion law
August 20, 2008
Last week’s condemnation of the miniskirt by the Mexican Catholic Church has enraged some Mexican women, who say the church’s statement that women should wear less provocative clothing makes it easier to justify rape and other forms of violence against them.
August 14, 2008
Before Beijing bronze, Mexican diving pair had rocky start NATALIE BEHRING / BLOOMBERG NEWS Paola Espinosa, foreground, and Tatiana Ortiz gave Mexico its first medal of the Beijing Games, finishing behind China’s Xin Wang and Ruolin Chen and Australia’s Briony Cole and Melissa Wu in the women’s 10-meter synchronized diving. Tatiana Ortiz and Paola Espinosa give Mexico its first medal in the women’s 10-meter synchronized diving.
August 11, 2008
Venezuela once again hits the beauty spot – Traditionally the home of beauty queens, the nation ends a dry spell at Miss Universe contest. Behind it all is Osmel Sousa, a man with a passion for preparing women for pageants.
August 6, 2008
Perez Celis, 69, an Argentine painter, sculptor and muralist whose highly visible works adorned museums, banks, airports and universities as well as soccer stadiums and wine bottles, died of leukemia Aug. 2 at a clinic in Buenos Aires.
July 30, 2008
U.S. graphic novelist and artist Phoebe Gloeckner is a contributor to a book funded by human rights group Amnesty International about the largely unsolved murders and disappearances of hundreds of women near the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez.
July 29, 2008
Chile: Pinochet daughter to run for office – Lucia Pinochet Hiriart
Mexican women accounted for about 20 percent of the new AIDS cases found in Mexico, and AIDS mortality rate among Mexican women have also witnessed a hike, said Jorge Saavedra, director of the National Center for the Prevention and Control of HIV-AIDS.
July 28, 2008
Una madre deportada abraza a su hijo después de 9 meses de separación – Reencuentro en Tegucigalpa, Honduras
July 23, 2008
Isabella Wall designated Representative of the Secretary of State of Tourism of Dominican Republic
July 17, 2008
Amnesty International: Venezuela neglecting battered women
July 14, 2008
Mexico’s drug war shows a virulent feminine side
June 30, 2008
Cristina and the Farmers – Cristina Kirchner confronts the goose that lays the golden eggs – Argentina’s farmers.
May 7, 2008
Cuban blogger, Yoani Sanchez, fails to receive government approval in time for Spain trip
April 29, 2008
Mexico City’s mass quinceañera makes princesses
April 22, 2008
Cuban police break up women’s sit-in for release of husbands
April 2, 2008
Little Old Lady Killer handed 759 years in a Mexican prison
February 4, 2008
Mexico’s programme to aid jailed mothers
January 28, 2008
In Mexico, a gain for native civil rights is a loss for some women
January 23, 2008
Gaining the trust of mothers in an Argentine prison
January 22, 2008
Golf for Women: Another Latin American star on the rise – Paraguay’s Julieta Granada
Mexico City starts grope-free buses for women
January 16, 2008
Mexican Sprinter Ana Guevara Retires from Track
January 3, 2008
A Mexican Sweet 15 – a bluejean girl becomes a woman – In the Mexican desert, full of hardship and dust, the traditional quinceañera is a chance to be a princess for a day.
December 13, 2007
Mary Kay Mexico Celebrates 20th Year with Grand Opening of New, Expanded Facilities
December 11, 2007
Cristina Fernandez Sworn In as Argentine President
November 30, 2007
RIGHTS-MEXICO: Supreme Court Lets Governor Off the Hook – (the Lydia Cacho story)
November 27, 2007
Female rebels’ fates diverge in Colombia
November 26, 2007
In Mexico 80 per cent of murdered women killed by family members
November 25, 2007
Proportion of Mexican women with AIDS doubles from 5 years ago
November 15, 2007
20 Percent of Breadwinners in Lima, Peru are Females
October 28, 2007
Dominican beauty queen wins Latin American crown
October 22, 2007
More Latinas fight domestic violence – Brazil
Argentina’s new Evita Peron tangoes her way to power – Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
October 1, 2007
A Rights Advocate’s Work Divides Dominicans – Sonia Pierre
September 18, 2007
Guatemalan Poll Watchers Spot More Mayan Women
September 15, 2007
Mexico’s Prophets of Climate Change: Women Forest Defenders
September 11, 2007
Eva Golinger: Saludos desde Caracas! … Postcards from the Revolution!
August 23, 2007
“Mirame’ book launch shines a light on challenges facing indigenous girls in Guatemala
August 21, 2007
Mexico City’s princess and the paupers – A great-grandmother defends the turf of 5,000 street vendors in the capital’s core.
August 2, 2007
I’m no Hillary Clinton: Argentine front-runner
July 10, 2007
Spain: Women demand a running of the cows
June 27, 2007
Reina Latina – Canada’s merging Latin music queen – Eliana Cuevas
June 24, 2007
Univision journalist puzzles over deaths of 400 Mexican women
May 23, 2007
Domestic violence stalks Mexican women – Domestic violence is not a phenomenon exclusive to Mexico. But the figures you are about to read are chilling. – from the BBC
May 9, 2007
Miss Universe encourages bicycle use in Mexico
May 7, 2007
Chile: Women wear diapers to work non-stop » VivirLatino
April 18, 2007
Dress with ’20s Mexican uprising draws outrage – Miss Mexico’s pageant gown depicts hangings
April 4, 2007
Marí Julia Hernández, 68, Rights Advocate in El Salvador, Dies
AP Interview: Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchu now Guatemalan presidential contender
March 29, 2007
Lorena Ochoa plays for Mexico, women
March 9, 2007
Canadian documentary focuses on plight of Guatemalan women
Minnesota native at forefront of empowering Chilean women
February 22, 2007
Spanish beauty queen loses crown for being mother
February 5, 2007
Colombian activist for land reparations slain – Yolanda Izquierdo
January 30, 2007
Mexico and Guatemala: Stop the Killings of Women
January 29, 2007
If one were to commission a film script based on the past six months of Juliette Gonzalez Pulido’s life, a working title might be From Bogota to Alberta: A Basketball Odyssey.
November 9, 2006
Million-dollar voice, Amanda Martinez – Ontario, Canada
October 18, 2006
Human Rights Watch Honors Mexican Activist – Veronica Cruz Sanchez
