Central Falls, Rhode Island is not a region that immediately jumps out as being an immigrant Latino hotbed. But as the region has struggled with English as a Second Language and shifting demographics, the “No Child Left Behind” provisions of…

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In the hours immediately following the attack on the World Trade Center, a call went out for help. People were needed to sift through the debris and to begin to clean up the rubble that piled in…

Sam’s first trip to New York included a visit to the Statue of Liberty. Although most Latino immigrants do not trace their migration through Ellis Island, the symbolism of Lady Liberty is not lost on Sam.

Producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister of…

Most of Sam’s classmates knew him from the school orchestra and had no idea that he was undocumented.

This past December, Latino USA, brought you the story of Sam, an undocumented honors student from Indiana who has been raised in this country…

The unemployment rate for Latinos and African-Americans is three to seven percentage points higher than the national unemployment rate. (Flickr Photo by aflcio2008)

Nationally, the nation’s unemployment hovers around 10 percent. This does not include what some say would be about…

Lake Atitlán is widely considered one of the world’s most beautiful lakes and was the Global Nature Fund’s ‘Threatened Lake of the Year’ in 2009. (Flickr photo by this afternoon.)

In 1955 the Guatemalan government designated Lake Atitlán as a National…

President Obama’s State of the Union address sought to recapture some of the campaign rhetoric promising change. But with increasing partisanship, some question whether Obama can deliver. (Flickr photo by atlantian5.)

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When President Obama was just a candidate, his campaign…

United Nations Special Envoy Bill Clinton (background) leads a delegation at a hospital in Port-o-Prince. (UN Photo/Logan Abassi.)

Haiti’s troubled history means the country has often been blamed for its own fate. But Haitians themselves, with a strong sense of historical…

Women have led pro-democracy protests in Honduras and been targeted for police repression say activists. (Photo by Ana Luisa Ahern)

In the days before the coup in Honduras that forced President Manuel Zelaya out of the country in his pajamas on…

The 2010 Census has begun and Latino population growth is widely expected to continue despite immigration losses due to the bad economy from 2008 onward. That’s because Latino population growth in the U.S. is actually fueled more by birthrates than…