Opinion

A recent study shows that Latino-owned small businesses have grown by 34 percent over the last decade and employ 3.4 million Americans. We work and own businesses in all major industries: manufacturing, education, health care, finance, construction, and more. Imposing a massive new tax burden will undo genuine progress.

During her recent visit to Guatemala, Harris told Central Americans “don't come”. Those words were criticized for coming from the daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica, and for contradicting what she had said during the electoral campaign about people who are "fleeing harm.”

Some Bitcoin fans have leapt on El Salvador's move as a step towards much broader acceptance. But the changes in Bitcoin’s market value since President Nayib Bukele announced his plan gives crypto-sceptics reason for doubt.

A son of the late Nobel literature prize winner, Gabriel García Márquez, has written an intimate book about his parents Gabo and Mercedes, a Goodbye. It describes in loving terms his father's descent into dementia and eventual death.

While corruption drives people to flee these countries, combatting corruption alone is not enough to revitalize a democracy. The U.S. strategy must include efforts to strengthen democratic institutions, including civil society organizations and the press.

An increasing number of Latinos are being vaccinated. Still, while much progress is being made, there remains much work to do. We are calling on all pastors, congregations, parishes, and people of good will to join our national call to help reach President Biden's goal of getting 70% of U.S. adults with at least one shot by July 4^th.

The main opposition that dented AMLO's dominance in Congress was a coalition of Mexico’s three traditional parties: the right-wing Revolutionary Institutional Party, center-right National Action Party and leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution.

Bukele came to power in 2019 on a tide of voters exhausted by the Salvadoran status quo – deep inequality, chronic violence and endemic corruption. Voters were hopeful for something different. Soon after, the authoritarian power grabs began.

We urgently need a humane system in place to deal with Central Americans who are fleeing conditions of extreme poverty, violence and gang intimidation. And every bit as urgently, we must legalize the residential status of millions of undocumented Americans, some of whom have been living in the United States for decades.

When Kamala Harris visits Guatemala this weekend she will be walking into a region facing enormous challenges and where civil society leaders are calling for radical reforms to address corruption.