Pastor Detained in Iowa -Immigration authorities are still detaining and deporting immigrants who could have the right to DACA or DAPA, despite recent directives dictated by President Obama. Pastor Max Villatoro, the father of four U.S. citizen children, was recently detained by ICE agents in Iowa, supposedly because almost 20 years ago, he worked with false papers. After an unprecedented wave of public petitions, authorities have refused to reconsider Villatoro’s case. On Radio Bilingüe’s national talkshow Línea Abierta, our news director Samuel Orozco spoke with the pastor’s wife, Gloria Villatoro.
Parents of Missing Students in Mexico Travel to U.S. – Parents of some of the 43 missing students in Mexico are now visiting the United States, traveling in three caravans through dozens of cities from California to New York. One of the parents of the survivors, Felipe de la Cruz, came to New York before the caravan, to participate in an Amnesty International congress. Our correspondent in New York, Marco Vinicio González, interviewed him.
Celebrated Trumpet Player Takes his Jazz to Mexico and Latin America – Celebrated North American jazz trumpet player Wynton Marsalis started a tour through the Americas to celebrate the influence that the musical traditions of the Caribbean, North, South and Central America have had on jazz throughout history. As part of the tour, Marsalis and his musicians offered a clinic for music students in Cuernavaca, a city near Mexico’s capital. Raúl Silva reports.
