In her new novel, author Mirta Ojito looks at a haunting question: How can an ancestor die in a shipwreck, yet be your grandmother?
A gold mine in Mexico's Sonoran desert was taken over by the sons of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Mexican officials and military generals said they would help an American businessman reclaim the mine — after hefty bribes. For one man, reclaiming the mine was more than a business proposition. It was a reckoning with his past and a chance to pay back the orphanage that raised him.
A band founded by a father and son has been key to the rise of Mexican culture and music in the Big Apple, and seeks to share traditional Mexican music with generations to come.
Una banda fundada por padre e hijo ha sido clave para el florecimiento de la cultura mexicana en la Gran Manzana, mientras comparten esta música tradicional con las futuras generaciones.
When federal threats met institutional silence, 3,000 trans patients at Children's Hospital Los Angeles lost the care that kept them alive. Twenty miles away, another hospital made a different choice.



"He was his best friend," says the attorney for a distraught El Paso man whose dog was killed inside his own home during an immigration check that found no wrongdoing.