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Zaira Cortes Garcia

Voices Stories by Zaira Cortes Garcia

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Immigrants applying for benefits rejected

By Zaira Cortes Garcia, Diario de Mexico, 9 February 2011. Translated from Spanish by Emily Leavitt.

Immigrant women victims of abusive American men

By Zaira Cortes Garcia, Diario de Mexico, 1 February 2011. Translated from Spanish by Emily Leavitt.

After 8 years at Westchester restaurant, Mexican worker fights unfair layoff and wage theft

By Zaira Cortes Garcia, Diario de Mexico, 25 January 2011. Translated from Spanish by Emily Leavitt.

Underground “clinics” pervade the city

By Zaira Cortes Garcia, Diario de Mexico, 20 January 2011. Translated from Spanish by Emily Leavitt.

Dancing at nightclubs to pay tuition

By Zaira Cortes Garcia, Diario de Mexico, 2 December 2010. Translated from Spanish by Emily Leavitt.

Prejudice against pregnant immigrant workers

By Zaira Cortes Garcia, Diario de Mexico, 11 November 2010. Translated from Spanish by Emily Leavitt.

House cleaner afraid to report sexual harassment

By Zaira Cortes Garcia, Diario de Mexico, 7 October 2010. Translated from Spanish by Emily Leavitt..

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Preserving Mixteca traditions in NYC

By Zaira Cortes Garcia, Diario de Mexico, 23 September 2010. Translated from Spanish by Emily Leavitt.

Day labor: Getting old makes it twice as hard

By Zaira Cortes Garcia, Diario de Mexico, 8 August 2010. Translated from Spanish by Emily Leavitt.

Assaults on the subway

By Zaira Cortes Garcia, Diario de Mexico, 27 July 2010. Translated from Spanish by Emily Leavitt.

Discrimination against lesbians

By Zaira Cortes Garcia, Diario de Mexico, 6 July 2010. Translated from Spanish by Emily Leavitt.

Closing down public libraries: A loss for immigrants

By Zaira Cortes Garcia, Diario de Mexico, 17 June 2010. Translated from Spanish by Emily Leavitt.

Overcoming machismo

By Zaira Cortes Garcia, Diario de Mexico, 22 April 2010. Translated from Spanish by Emily Leavitt.