Trilingual multimedia journalist with 20-plus years of experience in legacy and new media, as well as social media. Founder and CEO of Life a la Latina, a bilingual community celebrating the Latino experience. Before, I relaunched the U.S. Latino edition of Selecciones, the Spanish version of Reader's Digest, and was the founding editor of EFE´s Hispanic News Service. I have also worked at The Wall Street Journal and Reuters. I love show business, politics, traveling and home-making, but above anything, I'm proudly mamá.
The United States has agreed to ease sanctions on Venezuela to allow the government to pay the legal fees of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in their high-profile criminal case in New York, according to court filings and multiple reports.
At least twelve people were killed and more than a dozen others injured after an explosive device detonated today, Saturday April 25, on Colombia's Pan-American Highway in the southwestern department of Cauca, according to Colombian authorities and multiple local media reports.
A Republican proposal to reshape the map of the nation's capital is gaining attention after a major political setback in Virginia, where a new redistricting plan is expected to strengthen Democrats' hold on the state's congressional delegation.
Federal prosecutors in Miami have moved to strip U.S. citizenship from at least four people this year, making South Florida an early testing ground for the Trump administration's push to sharply expand denaturalization cases against foreign-born Americans.
More than three decades after the rise of the Queen of Tejano, Selena Quintanilla's loved ones have joined forces with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to launch a special charitable initiative to support children battling cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
President Claudia Sheinbaum said Friday that Mexico should reopen a national debate on euthanasia and assisted death, following a Senate forum on the proposed "Ley Trasciende," a bill aimed at recognizing the right to a dignified death.
A federal judge ordered the release of a mother and her five children after more than 10 months in immigration detention, ending what advocates describe as the longest family detention of President Donald Trump's second administration.
The body of a missing University of South Florida doctoral student was found Friday near the Howard Frankland Bridge, and his roommate was arrested after a domestic violence incident at their home, authorities said, turning a weeklong missing persons search into a death investigation as a second student remains missing.
Local police and city officials across the United States have warned that aggressive immigration operations are interfering with basic police work, eroding public trust and putting officers at risk of being mistaken for federal agents, according to internal records obtained by The Guardian.
California election officials are facing pressure from Jewish organizations after an official state voter guide included a governor candidate statement from Don J. Grundmann, a fringe political figure who previously went viral for calling his organization a "totally peaceful racist group" during a 2019 Modesto City Council meeting.
President Claudia Sheinbaum sent a letter to Mexico's governors Friday reminding them that any security cooperation with foreign agencies must go through federal channels, a move that turns the deaths of two reported CIA officers in Chihuahua into a test of presidential authority, sovereignty and the limits of U.S.-Mexico anti-cartel cooperation.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said Friday it is expanding federal execution protocols to include "additional manners of execution, such as the firing squad," while also directing the Bureau of Prisons to study whether federal death row should be relocated, expanded, or paired with a new execution facility.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani cast the first veto of his administration Friday, rejecting a controversial bill that would have expanded NYPD authority near schools during protests while allowing separate protections for houses of worship to move forward.
A newly surfaced report indicates that the United States is evaluating whether to reconsider its long-standing support for British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas,) in what could signal a rare shift in transatlantic relations.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed seven more bills into law, adding to a growing list of measures approved during the 2026 legislative session. Most of the new laws are set to take effect on July 1, 2026, unless otherwise specified, continuing the state's fast-paced policy changes across local government, business regulation, and public services.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disclosed Friday that he underwent treatment for early-stage prostate cancer, revealing a private medical battle he said he kept from the public for two months because Israel was at war with Iran.
The U.S. Senate approved a budget resolution early Thursday morning that paves the way to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, and the Border Patrol without Democratic support, marking a key step in Republican efforts to end the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, DHS, which has been ongoing since mid-February.
Air defense systems were activated across parts of Tehran late Thursday, according to Iranian state-affiliated media, in a development that underscores the fragile and increasingly volatile security situation in the Middle East.
Former beauty queen Carolina Flores Gomez, a 27-year-old young mother from Baja California, was found dead with a gunshot wound inside her apartment in Mexico City's upscale Polanco neighborhood, in a killing that authorities are now investigating under the femicide protocol after public outrage over the case's initial handling.
Julio César Chavez Jr. is back in the ring on Saturday, April 25, in a fight that feels less like a routine appearance and more like another test of whether one of boxing's most turbulent careers still has room for a meaningful final chapter.
A growing sense of concern is spreading across Capitol Hill as Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr., who represents one of New Jersey's most competitive congressional districts, remains absent from Washington with little public explanation.
A sharp and sustained increase in beef prices across the United States has prompted the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into the country's powerful meat industry, as federal authorities seek to determine whether the surge reflects normal market pressures or potentially illegal conduct by major producers.
Thirty years ago, Michael Jackson and Spike Lee made one of the riskiest and most unforgettable videos of the 1990s. They took They Don't Care About Us, one of Jackson's angriest, most confrontational songs, and filmed it in Brazil amid official outrage, legal battles, and long-running reports that the crew had to negotiate access to a Rio favela controlled by traffickers.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin warned Tuesday that the Department of Homeland Security is running out of options to keep paying workers during the partial government shutdown, saying emergency funds used to cover payroll could be exhausted by early May.
Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan has stepped down "effective immediately," the Pentagon confirmed Wednesday, marking the latest in a wave of leadership changes that has seen more than a dozen senior military and defense officials removed or replaced in recent months as the United States confronts Iran.
A major Mexican security operation in Sinaloa set off a wave of speculation that Aureliano Guzmán Loera, better known as 'El Guano' and identified as a brother of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, had been captured.
A political firestorm is unfolding in Virginia after a Republican-appointed judge struck down a Democratic-backed redistricting amendment, invalidating the results of a closely watched special election and setting up a high-stakes legal battle that could ripple far beyond the state.
President Donald Trump stepped into the center of Iran's human rights crisis Wednesday with a triumphant message that read like a rescue announcement. "Very good news!" he wrote, saying he had just been informed that eight women protesters who were to be executed that night in Iran would no longer be killed. He added that four would be released immediately and four others would instead serve one month in prison.
A gang born in Brazil's brutal prison system is no longer just a domestic security threat. The Primeiro Comando da Capital, or PCC, has evolved into a sprawling transnational criminal organization that prosecutors, U.S. officials and recent international reporting say is reshaping cocaine routes from South America to Europe and making troubling inroads into the United States.
