Perhaps this is the only place in Washington, D.C. where an ambassador sits next to those who clean diplomatic headquarters to enjoy the same show. GALA Hispanic Theatre, located in the heart of Columbia Heights, gathers and unites a diverse population while struggling to survive during hard times.
For Hugo Medrano, founder [...]
At 14, Dora López moved to a state she was not familiar with, where she could not understand anything. Since there were barely any Latinos living there, the challenge for this Mexican started at school.
“They had to send me back home because they didn’t know what to do with me. No one [...]
It has been 20 years since Gene Camarena took the risk of purchasing a Pizza Hut franchise and became an entrepreneur. He has not stopped ever since. Now, he not only has 60 Pizza Hut restaurants in Texas, Indiana and even Mexico. He also owns eight Marriott hotels, a bank and a [...]
DETROIT, Michigan – Jonathan Contreras crossed the border in 1985, while still in his mother’s womb. Like many immigrants, his parents had an incomplete education and lacked opportunities.
“They did it for their children. They didn’t have papers and took a risk to give us a better life,” said Contreras, who is currently a community organizer [...]
DETROIT, Michigan – Latinos have lived in Michigan for more than a century, although in relatively small numbers. At the beginning of the 20th century they arrived by train, then by car to work in the fields, manufacturing plants and other sectors of the economy. Some came as migrant workers and settled here, where they [...]
In the place where Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton and more recently, Shania Twain, Tim McGraw and Carrie Underwood popularized country music, now Hispanics are attempting to do it in their own language: Spanish.
Ever since the country music genre became very popular during the 1940s, there have been several attempts [...]
In a public laundromat located on Murfreesboro Pike in southeast Nashville-one of the areas with the highest concentration of Hispanics in the capital of Tennessee-customers buy laundry soap, put their clothes in washers and driers, and use change machines to exchange bills for coins that clatter as they fall against the [...]
With 5,321 members, Guatemalans are the fourth largest Hispanic group in Kentucky, according to data from the 2010 Census. However, some Guatemalans who have settled in this state not only don’t speak English; they also don’t master Spanish.
María is from Quetzaltenango. She speaks Mam, one of her country’s 23 native languages, [...]
Guatemalan, Honduran, Argentinean, Mexican and Cuban patients go to Dr. Juan Polo’s clinic. Polo, a native of Cuba, is one of the few Hispanic doctors who speak Spanish and work in Louisville.
“Although the change between the health care systems in Cuba and the United States can come as a shock to anyone, [...]
Oct 062011
Only 25 years ago, Magdalena “Maggie” Cook-García used to make her own shoes out of leftover tires. Today, she owns a rising Mexican salsa factory in the United States.
“Come on in,” she said, opening the door to her office at the heart of the business. A tricolored piñata hangs from the ceiling [...]
