Gisele Regatão
New York City is trying to turn houses of worship into shelters
Fifty churches, synagogues, mosques and temples in New York City will start housing nearly 1,000 migrant men. The new plan announced by Mayor Eric Adams means the city will pay houses of worship to have beds, showers and dining areas, filling in the desperate need to provide shelter as more migrants keep arriving. The announcement comes as religious affiliation in the US is down, even among Latinos.
Ecuadorian group creates political hip-hop with bunnies and clowns
As Ecuador’s political crisis deepens, Venezuelan LGBTQ migrants feel the pain
Galapagos discovery offers clues to climate impact on deep-sea corals
Caribbean summer forecast: high chance of sargassum
'We have to fight': Venezuelan women lead migration to Brazil
Yoselin Calcurian, 35, is among some 400,000 Venezuelans who went to Brazil, fleeing economic collapse and political chaos. She and many others say they are now struggling to find jobs and learn a new language.
New York City struggles to accommodate new migrants
A controversial housing dispute this week reveals a deep strain on the intake system for migrants.
Pork paradigm shift: This high-end São Paulo restaurant features pig ears and tails
In Brazil, eating pork used to have negative connotations. But A Casa do Porco, or The Pork’s House, in downtown São Paulo, has transformed pork into a gourmet food, kicking off a culinary trend throughout the country.
‘Art is the answer to all this’: This Brazilian artist went from fighting fires to uplifting Black portraiture
Growing up in Brazil as a Black man, Dalton Paula said he missed seeing people who looked like him on movies and TV. At 40, he now creates paintings, photos and installations about Black communities. In 2021, he and his partner also turned their home into an art school called Sertão Negro, or Black Hinterland.
Peruvian filmmaker Melina León boosts Peru’s film industry with strong female leads
With Peru's current political upheaval as a backdrop, award-winning filmmaker Melina León is developing new projects. Her latest feature film will tell the difficult story of a young Indigenous woman living with epilepsy.
Meet Peru’s Quechuan hip-hop star
About to release her second album, Renata Flores is using rap and the Inca language to challenge discrimination.
Peru’s avocado ‘green-gold’ rush loses some shine
After years of getting high prices for their fruit, Peruvian growers and exporters have seen the prices fall dramatically this season.
New York Icons: ‘Siembra’
How a salsa album that many thought was doomed became a hit.
American Icons: ‘Cross Road Blues’
How the myth of a pact with the devil and a phenomenal guitar technique turned Robert Johnson's 1936 song into a hit.
An anonymous psych patient is now acclaimed as a master artist of the immigrant experience
For years, Mexican artist Martín Ramírez was only known as a psychiatric patient who made drawings. That narrative is changing.