Friday Film Roundup: ‘Bottoms,’ ‘The Equalizer 3,’ ‘Perpetrator,’ and More
Friday Film Roundup: ‘Bottoms,’ ‘The Equalizer 3,’ ‘Perpetrator,’ and More
The first weekend of September is full of blood, guts, and gore. All five films we’re highlighting this weekend are pretty brutal affairs. We have the Denzel Washington-led Equalizer threequel, a bloody spoof of high school comedies, and two ultraviolent, indie horror films that are most definitely not for the [...]
Raizado Festival: The Latinx House Plants its Roots in Aspen
Raizado Festival: The Latinx House Plants its Roots in Aspen
Among its incredible vistas and high-alpine charm, Aspen, Colorado is also known to be expensive and inaccessible to most. The Raizado Festival is looking to change that. The premise of the festival is simple: to bring together Latino changemakers and to uplift the workers who often [...]
Celebrating Ellen Ochoa: The First Latina in Space & NASA Trailblazer
Celebrating Ellen Ochoa: The First Latina in Space & NASA Trailblazer
“An experience unlike anything else,” is how former NASA astronaut Ellen Ochoa described being in space. In 1993, Ochoa broke the astronautical glass ceiling by becoming the first Latina astronaut to go to space. She told LATINA that the views of Earth aboard STS-56/Space Shuttle Discovery were “even more vivid [...]
Melissa Lucio Deserves to Go Home
Melissa Lucio Deserves to Go Home
A little over a year before Casey Anthony caught national attention in 2008 for allegedly murdering her young daughter Caylee, a woman named Melissa Lucio was fighting for her life in a Brownsville, Texas police interrogation room. Cameron County Sheriffs had accused Lucio of murdering her two-year-old daughter Mariah, the [...]
Human Rights Activist Cesar Espinosa Fights for Immigrant Families
Human Rights Activist Cesar Espinosa Fights for Immigrant Families
At first glance, many might think Cesar Espinosa, 36, is too young to know much about immigration reform. Espinosa, who studied pre-law and political science at the University of Houston, has spent over a decade advocating locally and nationally in many public campaigns. He has fought for immigrant and student [...]
Argentina Is Doubling Down On its Lithium
Argentina Is Doubling Down On its Lithium
A three-part series exploring the current state of South America’s “Lithium Triangle,” comprising Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. We explore the challenges each country faces in successfully mining and monetizing “The New Oil.” The three countries inside South America’s Lithium Triangle represent a spectrum of success in extracting and commercializing the [...]
This Week’s New Music Releases: Arca, Omar Apollo, Karol G, and More
This Week’s New Music Releases: Arca, Omar Apollo, Karol G, and More
Welcome to LATINA’s weekly round-up of the best new music. This week’s list features Colombian superstar Karol G taking "Un Viaje" with Jotaerre, Venezuelan producer Arca's mind-blowing "Cayó" music video, and Omar Apollo's debut album "Ivory." The most recent Latin Grammy winner for Best New Artist, Juliana, teams up with [...]