Podcast Episodes

All They Will Call You Will Be Deportees

In 1948, a plane crashed near Fresno. On that flight there were 28 Mexican citizens who were being deported from the United States. Everyone on board died. The American crew members had their bodies …

Published on 2 months ago

Trading in the American Dream for the Mexican Dream

For decades, there’s been a persistent story about Mexican immigrants crossing the border for a better life in the United States. But there’s a new trend emerging: Mexicans and Mexican Americans, dis…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Puerto Rico's Buscabulla Gets Real About the Messiness of Long-Term Relationships

What happens when your musical partner is also your life partner and you’re raising a child together? We hear the answer in Buscabulla’s new album Se Amba Así, which takes us through the trials of mo…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Getting Lost in Latina Trad Wife TikTok

During a flurry of election-related anxiety, Imperfect Paradise host Antonia Cereijido re-downloaded TikTok and fell down a very specific rabbit hole: Latina trad wife content. Videos of women waking…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

'The Padilla Incident' and Trump's Escalation Against Free Speech

California Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a press conference on June 12.

We’ve seen the Trump administration go after activists, students, universities, journalists and now, in the lat…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

The Network: A Behind the Scenes Conversation

We go behind the scenes with The Network’s hosts Victoria Estrada and Marta Martinez. In conversation with Maria Hinojosa, they share anecdotes and reflections on their reporting in Latin America for…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Network: Déjà vu

This week, we’re presenting the third of “The Network,” a new series that Latino USA co-produced with NPR’s Embedded podcast. 

The network and its method took off in countries where women didn’t have …

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Network: Breaking Bread

Today, we're presenting episode 2 of “The Network,” a new series that Latino USA co-produced with NPR’s Embedded podcast. 

The network had developed a method that had the potential to get women widesp…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

The Network: Saint-o-tec

This week we’re presenting the first episode of “The Network,” a new series that Latino USA co-produced with NPR’s Embedded podcast. 

In the mid-1980s, an OBGYN in Brazil noticed that far fewer pregna…

Published on 3 months ago

'It's Our Right as Americans': LA Protests Against ICE

In the news this week: On June 6, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents began a series of raids in Los Angeles, and their actions were the boiling point after months of violent apprehensions. 

Pr…

Published on 3 months ago