Anxiety and Protests after Trump’s Election – After the election of Donald Trump, migrant families report anxiety about an uncertain future. At some schools in the country, there has been harassment and bullying of immigrant and Latino students At the same time, young people from dozens of high schools around the country are walking out to repudiate Trump’s deportation plan. Rubén Tapia reports on those marches and the crisis that families are living. This feature is part of our series, “Hablando de La Raza.”
Family Members of Repressed in Mexico Raise their Voices in U.S. – A group of Mexican mothers with disappeared children and family members of those incarcerated or persecuted are visiting several cities in the United States to try to make themselves heard in this country, since the Mexican authorities have not responded to their reports of human rights abuses. We speak with the mother of a missing girl in Ciudad Juárez and the sister of a teacher who is incarcerated in Mexico.
Traditional Mayan Celebration Puts Down Roots in San Francisco – The Vaquería is one of the most popular traditions of the southern Mexican state of Yucatán. It is a traditional festival, with origins in colonial times, when the owner of an hacienda would brand cattle and invite friends to a party where the wives of the cattle-herders would dance. This party would also be celebrated in honor of the patron saint of the hacienda or town. Immigrant workers of Mayan origin, brought this tradition from the state of Yucatán to the San Francisco Bay Area more than a decade ago, and it’s putting down roots. Fernando Andrés Torres brings us the story.
