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Latino USA is the longest-running news and culture radio program in the U.S. centering Latino stories, hosted by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Maria Hinojosa Every week, the Peabody winning team brings you revealing, in-depth stories about what’s in the hearts and minds of Latinos an...
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Uruguayan Artist Jorge Drexler Talks Creative Process and Gets Personal
Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler knows what it's like to live different lives within one. An ENT doctor until his early 30’s, he then decided...

From the Brothels of Argentina to the World Stage: The Complicated History of Tango
Tango usually evokes images of a very regal couple: a man in a suit and a woman in a tight red dress, embraced in sensual moves. But the reality of th...

Gracias, Come Again Presents: "Maria Hinojosa: Visibility, Dignity, & La Verdad ✊🏽"
Hello Latino USA Listeners! We’re excited to share a special episode from our friend, Honey German from Gracias, Come Again.
Honey sits down wi...

Music Cures: The Healing Power of the Accordion After a Shooting
A farmworker opened fire at two farms in Half Moon Bay, California, in January 2023. He killed seven men, six co-workers and a supervisor, all immigra...

“The Nueva York Connection”: How New York City Became the Crossroad That Made Reggaeton Possible
Reggaeton is full of myths and legends, but this story is true: El General arrived in Brooklyn in the mid-80s and began performing in the dancehall sc...

From Pregnancy to Murder Charge: Living Under a Total Abortion Ban
She was in labor, fainted, and woke up in handcuffs.
In El Salvador, nearly 200 women have been incarcerated in the last 26 years after having o...

The Spillover: How the Texas Abortion Ban Shook Up Eastern New Mexico
When Texas passed its six-week abortion ban in 2021 and Roe v. Wade was overturned, some local abortion clinics considered moving to the neighboring s...

Bad Bunny's Residency in Puerto Rico Proves He’s El Rey Del Pop (Con Reguetón y Dembow)
Bad Bunny’s residency in Puerto Rico reveals grown-up Benito, an evolved artist whose love for his homeland shines through in everything he does. So l...

How Reggaeton Got LOUD, As Told By Ivy Queen
This is the tale of the young people from Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico and beyond who beat the odds, refused to be quiet and created an irresistible m...

Introducing: The Moment with Jorge Ramos & Paola Ramos — featuring an exclusive interview with Zohran Mamdani
Bienvenidos a The Moment. Each week, journalists Jorge Ramos and Paola Ramos — a father-daughter duo- bring the Latino perspective to the center of to...

A Summer Break That Wasn't: American Kids Living in Fear of ICE
There are more than 4 million American kids with at least one undocumented parent, and their summer break this year was unlike any other. They told us...

“Silence Won’t Protect Us. Community Will”: Cristina Jiménez on Latino Activism in a Time of Fear
Activist and organizer Cristina Jiménez, co-founder of United We Dream, joins Maria Hinojosa on Latino USA. Listen in on the conversation, as Cristina...

Camino a Colombia: A Colombian-American Returns to the Motherland, Reflecting on Latina Identity, Immigration, and the Meaning of Home
In this intimate reflection, Colombian-American producer Tasha Sandoval takes listeners with her as she returns to her native Colombia, after a lifeti...

9/11: The Day That Forever Changed U.S. Immigration Policy
The 9/11 terrorist attacks left nearly 3,000 people dead and it traumatized the nation. It also reshaped U.S. immigration policy forever. Today, as th...

Is The Addams Family Latino?: Luis Guzmán On Manhood, Politics, And Embracing Weirdness
Is the Addams family Latino?
Maria Hinojosa embarks on a quest to unravel this mystery. She interviews actor Luis Guzmán, who plays Gomez Addams...

Chisme: Intergenerational Bonding Over Gossip
Chisme is the Spanish word for gossip. It happens when you speak about someone in their absence, sharing information that’s supposed to be private and...

Remembering Legendary Latino Jazz Icon Eddie Palmieri
Eddie Palmieri’s genius couldn’t be categorized. His music was a mix of salsa, rumba, guaguanco, and jazz, and made anyone who listened to it get on t...

Latinas and The Ancient Power of Intuition
Light your candles and schedule your limpia because today's episode is all about the power of intuition. First, we talk to scientist Galang Lufityanto...

Latinas Take Over 'Love Island USA': Bringing 'Real' to Reality TV
Latinas took over the latest season of "Love Island USA" and one won the hearts of millions: “Amaya Papaya.” The massively popular show had many Latin...

The Rise and Fall of ‘Real Women Have Curves’ on Broadway
The musical adaptation of "Real Women Have Curves" was praised by the Tony Awards and across the country for its timeliness as it leaned heavily on on...
The Comedic Absurdity of Our Immigration System: A Chat With 'America Let Me In' Author
After experiencing the complexity of migrating to the U.S. “the right way,” comedian Felipe Torres Medina set out to write a book that was informative...
Girls Wanna Play: How a Latino Soccer Club in LA Fights Despite Recent Threats
Professional men’s soccer or “futbol” has always had great Latino players, but only 7% of female professional soccer players are Latinas. That’s not h...
Trump Supports This Climate Solution: Is That A Bad Thing?
As the planet hits record-breaking carbon emissions, the race is on to slash CO2 levels. A controversial technology —called carbon capture and storage...
FCC Commissioner Gomez Sounds the Alarm on the White House Trying to 'Control Everything'
In a chilling interview, FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez is sounding the alarm about government censorship, the Trump administration’s attacks on the Firs...
Lost in Queer Translation: From Gay Slurs to Colombian Slang
When Andrés tried translating Colombian slang to his American boyfriend, he stumbled into a deeper question: what do these words really mean?
I...
An ICE Raid at a Carwash and a New Tool Mapping the Terror in California
Candido was working at a car wash when ICE agents pulled up in white vans, blocked all the entrances, and took him and his coworkers. The agents colle...
What Our Favorite Telenovela Villain Reveals About Human Evolution
In this episode, our Executive Editor Maria Garcia reflects on the legacy of Soraya Montenegro, her favorite telenovela villain of all time. Maria exp...
‘We Win to Live and Fight Another Day’: ACLU Executive Director on Trump's Attacks on Civil Rights
The Trump administration is facing more than 300 legal challenges, many of which are being litigated by the American Civil Liberties Union led by Anth...
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Are Latino Pollsters Helping or Hurting the Democratic Cause?
As Democrats confront declining Latino support across three consecutive presidential elections, a fierce debate is unfolding within the party: Are Lat...
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...
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 tr...
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...
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:...
'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,...
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 re...
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 i...
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 devel...
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...
'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 boilin...