As the holiday season begins, the streets of Latin America come alive with festive colors, joyful music and unique customs that reflect the region’s rich cultural heritage. “It’s stuffed with apples, nuts, prunes, pork meat, onions and spices, and marinated at least two days in advance,” said María Escobar, coordinator of vulnerability management at the L.A. Consulate of Ecuador. Participants …
It was about three hours after sunset on March 18, 2019, when a resident of Yeri, a remote Indigenous settlement near the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, heard the sound of gunfire from his neighbour’s home. Carlos Alvarado, the president of Costa Rica at the time, described Rojas’s death as “tragic”, not only for Indigenous peoples but also for the …
Every time Rob Pegg sees a newspaper article about one of his favorite former players, the Vanguard University baseball coach clips it out and hangs it in his team’s dugout. “He’s just the model of what people should be.” Even before Rojas made his MLB debut last Friday, or his first big league start Tuesday, many Angels fans were already …
