Ambitious Latino Voter Drive to Launch in the Deep South on Cinco de Mayo – Dozens of organizers from around the country will descend on Atlanta the weekend of Cinco de Mayo to launch what they call the largest Latino voter mobilization operation in Georgia’s history. With a door-to-door campaign, volunteers are seeking to galvanize the Latino vote in support of a gubernatorial candidate who, if elected, would become the first black woman governor in U.S. history. According to Tania Unzueta, the leader of the campaign, it is not easy to convince Latino citizens, especially in rural areas of the South, but they trust that things are changing. Unzueta, from the organization Mijente in Chicago, joined Radio Bilingüe’s Samuel Orozco from Atlanta.
Members of Migrant Caravan Gradually Manage to Request Asylum at the Border – Sleeping on the ground and in tents, just steps from the border town of San Isidro, about 150 Central American refugees—almost half of them women and children—await their turn to request political asylum in the United States. Although the Trump administration threatened to detain and deport migrants crossing the border, two dozen have managed to process their application with support from lawyers and human rights advocates from both sides of the border. Our reporter Jessica Bedolla has this story from the refugee camp in Tijuana.
Huave Indigenous Language Endangered by Conflict – The last remaining speakers of the indigenous Huave language can be found on Mexico’s southern Pacific coast. Most are concentrated in two towns on a windy peninsula. But for some years, these communities have not spoken and have had serious disagreements and confrontations over the construction of a wind energy park. The conflict is endangering the language and the customs of this ancestral people. Levi Bridges visited the area and brings us this report, voiced by Rubén Tapia.
