By Leni Villagomez Reeves The Invasion On May 3 and 4, two groups of armed men left Colombia on boats to attempt to land in Venezuela, seize Maiquetia International Airport, kidnap President [...] Continue Reading
National & International
Fresno’s Connection to Nicaragua
During the late 1970s, the Nicaraguan People’s Solidarity Committee in Fresno raised money to support the revolutionaries in Nicaragua. Later, the group changed its name to the Latin American Support [...] Continue Reading
Cuba and the United States in a Time of Pandemic
By Leni Villagomez Reeves Cuba has had to confront the pandemic at home. People must manage a contagious illness in a setting where physical contact and social closeness are culturally [...] Continue Reading
People of Cuba, Living under U.S. Siege
By Leni Villagomez Reeves For 60 years, Cubans have been suffering as the price for being independent. The United States offers lip service to freedom but doesn’t tolerate it for a second anywhere [...] Continue Reading
Chilean Injustice
By Juan Trujillo Limones “We had to resign ourselves to the fact that the person who was there in the coffin sealed with a paper from the Legal Medical Service (LMS) was my brother,” explains [...] Continue Reading
Federal Trade Commission Lists Biggest Scams
By Mark Hedin A veteran lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) briefed ethnic media reporters on 2019’s biggest frauds, what the agency is doing about them and some things everyone should [...] Continue Reading
Mistrial Outcome for Venezuelan Embassy Protectors
By Leni Villagomez Reeves Even with the defenders not allowed to present facts and the prosecutors free to present political fantasy as if it were reality, they couldn’t convict. On Feb. 14, the [...] Continue Reading
Chilean Resistance
By Juan Trujillo Limones SANTIAGO, CHILE—“I’m going for my mother, for a better and dignified retirement,” 33-year-old Mauricio Fredes Lambi told his family when he left home to participate on the [...] Continue Reading
Organizaciones del Valle Central se unen por el Censo 2020
Por Eduardo Stanley El pasado viernes 31 de enero, varias organizaciones de los condados de Merced, Madera, Fresno y Tulare se reunieron para discutir estrategias para implementar el Censo 2020, es [...] Continue Reading
The Mapuche Uprising in Chile
By Juan Trujillo Limones SANTIAGO, CHILE—The sun was plummeting in the heart of this popular rebellion that continued burning with flares, sweat, paint or extinguisher gas the already corroded [...] Continue Reading
Venezuelan Embassy Protectors: Will They Get a Fair Trial?
By Leni Villagomez Reeves The trial of the Embassy Protectors—the four U.S. citizens who stayed in the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C., for 37 days to prevent it from being handed over to [...] Continue Reading
Large Pro-Impeachment Rally Held in Clovis
By Peter MaidenPhotos by Peter Maiden More than 600 demonstrations calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump were held throughout the country on Dec. 17. There were actions in all 50 [...] Continue Reading