Afraid she could not make herself understood, Nicaraguan immigrant Irania Sánchez used sketches on a piece of paper to explain the pain she felt to her English-speaking doctor. more>

The inability to vote in the most powerful country in the world – because of the difficulty of access to transportation, employers' refusal of permission to leave work, and the lack of a place to leave the children – is a reality confronted by many of the country's 37 million poor when it comes to the presidential election process. more>

Today [January 22], 35 years after the legalization of abortion in the United States, 35 percent of Latinos registered to vote in New York, California, Illinois, Florida and Texas are pro-choice, according to a recent poll by ImpreMedia – the largest chain of Spanish-language print media in the country, which publishes this newspaper. more>

Prieto explained that the operation her son needed “was a simple one, and they canceled a day before it was scheduled, because we couldn't get Medicare since my son was making more than the cut off: $10,000 a year at a fast food restaurant.” more>

“The reform is not dead, and we are going to keep fighting,” said Chung-Wha Hong, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, expressing the determination of the immigrant community despite finding out that the immigration reform proposal in the Senate has stalled. more>