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Ernesto Londoño is a national correspondent with The New York Times, where he covers the U.S. midwest. He’s also the author of a new book named “Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics...
· 23 min 48 sec
Latino USA brings you the launch of In The Thick’s new popup season—to help you break down this unprecedented political moment and what it means for our communities and our futures. In this episode Ma...
· 33 min 20 sec
In recent years, rising grocery prices have shocked many of us, changing how we discuss inflation. For economists, inflation measures how quickly prices increase over a set period, but for most consum...
· 45 min 37 sec
Irene Vallejo never imagined she would become a global literary sensation. In 2019, the Spanish author and academic published an essay about a somewhat obscure topic: the ancient history of books. Aft...
· 19 min 9 sec
In Part 2 of The Moving Border, we visit Tapachula, Mexico in search of a young man whose life is in danger and we find a new frontier where refugees trying to make it to the U.S. are increasingly stu...
· 50 min 33 sec
Making Movies is a band based out of Kansas City, Missouri that mixes Afro-Latino rhythms and psychedelic rock’n'roll. The group members have roots in Panama and Mexico. It’s composed by two sets of b...
· 10 min 8 sec
In this 2-part investigation, The Moving Border from Latino USA delves into the increasing pressure put on refugees seeking safety in the United States via its southern border. It reveals the surprisi...
· 37 min 16 sec
It was only a few years ago that Erik Rodriguez was attending medical school in his native Cuba, following his family of careerists’ footsteps. But then, when he heard James Brown’s "I feel good," he...
· 15 min 12 sec
Gun violence is a top voting issue for Latinos and Latinas this election cycle. So to explore how Latines are thinking about the topic, we traveled to Texas. The Lone Star State has more registered gu...
· 56 min 11 sec
The Puerto Rican singer and songwriter Draco Rosa just released a new album, "Monte Sagrado," after several years without sharing a new collection of work, and after battling cancer. Born Robert Edwar...
· 9 min 8 sec
After Texas passed a six-week abortion ban and Roe v. Wade was overturned, many abortion clinics had to close in the Lone Star state. Some providers considered opening clinics in eastern New Mexico, s...
· 57 min 44 sec
This week Latino USA shares an episode from the podcast "Imperfect Paradise: Return to Mexico," from LAist. In 2011, Daniel Zamora took a road trip that shattered the course of his life. Lulled to sle...
· 35 min 1 sec
The Mortgage Wall is a special episode by Futuro Investigates in collaboration with Latino USA. As housing has become one of the top five concerns for Latino voters for the first time ever this electi...
· 40 min 9 sec
Daymé Arocena is a Cuban singer, songwriter and composer who left the island looking for artistic freedom. Arocena has been described as one of the most explosive and dynamic voices today. In her late...
· 22 min 25 sec
Vicente Montalvo's grandparents grew up and fell in love in Palo Verde, one of the neighborhoods that make up a community known as Chavez Ravine. In the early 1950s, the city decided that Chavez Ravin...
· 19 min 12 sec
Alaska is a Mexican-born singer from Spain with one of the most definitive LGBTQ Spanish anthems: "¿A quién le importa?" by the duo Alaska y Dinarama. In the late '70s, Alaska was one of the key figur...
· 11 min 14 sec
As Vice President Kamala Harris ascends as the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate this November, we revisit Maria Hinojosa’s sit-down 2023 conversation with the vice president.We also hear...
· 36 min 26 sec
Roberto Deniz is a Venezuelan investigative journalist whose work has uncovered widespread corruption in Nicolás Maduro’s government.With the elections in Venezuela approaching on July 28th, Roberto s...
· 20 min 42 sec
Many of us grew up flipping to the horoscope section in magazines or waited for that weekly hit with celebrity astrologer Walter Mercado—or maybe you have a full-blown astrology practice and plan your...
· 33 min 58 sec
Anthropologist Ruth Behar is a groundbreaking scholar who also delights in salsa dancing.Born in Cuba to a Jewish family, Ruth draws from her heritage as an anthropologist and writer. Her latest middl...
· 20 min 33 sec