How One Woman Is Fighting To Get More Latino Movie Roles
How One Woman Is Fighting To Get More Latino Movie Roles
When casting director Carla Hool moved to Los Angeles from Mexico City in 2011, she found stereotypical Latino movie roles written without much depth: “The gardener, the immigrant who crossed the […]
Bulletproof Burial Ground – the Narco Tombs of Culiacan
*This is fascinating and eerie at the same time. The opulent tombs of the Sinaloa drug kingpins – done in baroque and minimalist traditions, with AC, running water and bullet […]
With The Violence In Mexico, How Can I Help My Family?
Dear Martha: I am worried about the situation Mexico is going through. I was given the opportunity to live here in the U.S. but all of my family lives back […]
Poll: Less Than Half Of Mexicans Say Gov’t Beating Narcos
[Editors Note: The following is a press release from the Pew Hispanic Center.] As the death toll continues to rise in Mexico’s drug war, a new survey by Pew Research Center’s Global […]
Mexicans Turn to Social Media to Document Narco Violence
[Editor’s note: This post was originally published on March 9, 2010.] By Melissa del Bosque An explosion of violence has occurred in the state of Tamaulipas in the last few […]
Narcos Have Killed Any Hope For Reynosa
By Melissa del Bosque Reynosa is crumbling under the dark spell of organized crime and narco-traficantes. This is not the city I used to know a decade ago with its vibrant […]
In Monterrey We’re All Becoming Just Numbers — Or Targets
By Wuicho Vargas For the grill to burn just right, the night has to unfold — along with the beer, the friends, the conversations, everything, it all has to be […]
