Hondurans Call on Congress to Act for Central American Refugees – Now that the eyes of the world are fixed on the crisis of Syrian refugees, a group of immigrants, activists and priests from Honduras is visiting Washington, D.C. to remind Congress of the crisis of Central American refugees. The group asked members of Congress to stop deportations and establish an urgent, humanitarian policy toward Central American exiles, who are fleeing gang violence in their countries. José López Zamorano reports from the Capitol.
Guatemalans in Arizona Have Mixed Feelings About Crisis – Guatemala is going through one of the biggest political crises of its recent history. In less than a week, president Otto Pérez Molina resigned and was arrested, accused of corruption and customs fraud, and Guatemalans went to the polls to vote for a new president. Valeria Fernández reports that the news sparked celebration but also skepticism of real change among a group of Guatemalans in Arizona.
50 Years Since the Grape Strike That Made History – Fifty years ago, Mexican and Filipino workers declared a strike against vineyard owners in the area of Delano, in California’s Central Valley. The strike, as well as the grape boycott that it provoked, gave life to a national historical movement that transformed U.S. society. Radio Bilingüe’s news director, Samuel Orozco, spoke with one of the leaders of the 1965 strike, Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW) and president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation in Bakersfield, California.
