Trauma of Detention Follows Refugee Children to the Classroom – Hundreds of thousands of children have come in the last two years to the United States, with or without the parents, and fleeing violence in Central America. Often they end up in detention centers. The challenges don’t end when they are free, but continue in a quieter way when the children go to school. Valeria Fernández has been following the story of one mother and her daughter who were detained for months. Now she reports on the daughter’s difficult return to school. This feature is part of our series, “Hablando de la Raza”, and it was produced with the support of the Institute for Justice and Journalism.
Top Republicans Abandon Their Presidential Candidate – A recording from 2005 in which presidential candidate Donald Trump boasts about touching women’s genitals without their permission provoked a stampede of followers of the millionaire. Although his performance in the second debate with Hillary Clinton helped to contain the hemmorrhage, this Trump scandal left the Republican Party caught up in a civil war with unpredictable consequences, not only for the elections, but for the future of the party. José López Zamorano reports.
Latinos Live Longer – Despite having more obesity, diabetes, and chronic diseases, Latinos live longer than non-Latino whites. Experts have studied this paradox for years. A new scientific study proposes a new explanation about the slow aging of Latinos. Radio Bilingüe’s news director Samuel Orozco spoke with Yanira Cruz, president and director of the National Hispanic Council on Aging about the paradox.
