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As 2018 comes to a close that means one very important thing for all of us who spend a whole lot of time glued to our TV screens or parked in movie theaters: it’s awards season! The Golden Globes kicks off awards season on Sunday, January 6th, 8pm EST, with a night that is sure to be packed with...
Freshman Class Vanity Fair belatina
To kick off the New Year and a new House of Congress, Vanity Fair included the “New Wave” of freshmen congresspeople in their rundown of political movers and shakers. The magazine featured a handful of the young, POC, LGBTQ females who represent a new era in U.S. politics and representation, including: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest congresswoman in history, who unseated...
Cuba Flag
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution led by the late Fidel Castro, who ousted Fulgencio Batista, a brutal authoritarian leader who had initially had the support of the United States government. Six decades after his brother Fidel had organized the 1959 armed Communist takeover of the Cuban government, Raul Castro spoke to his countrymen in...
Roma Awards Belatina
Ever since its initial release to Netflix late last November, Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón’s semi-autobiographical film Roma has been all over the news media. Most recently, the New York Times spent time with Cuarón in Mexico City, in the neighborhood where Roma was born,, where the filmmaker spent his childhood in the 1970s. He took the Times correspondent on...
Border wall KGTV BeLatina Teargas
Tear Gas Used Again by Agents at U.S. Border on New Year’s Day U.S. border patrol agents launched at least three cans of tear gas onto the Mexican side of the border near Tijuana in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day. A group of about 150 Central Americans who had made their way to Tijuana with a Honduran...
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On January 1st, 2019, Brazil inaugurates Jair Bolsonaro as their president. Bolsonaro was an incredibly a divisive figure during the election. The far-right candidate’s brash, no-filter demeanor, his deregulatory campaign promises, and social media savvy have had many people likening him to President Donald Trump. (In fact, they are big fans of one another.) The Washington Post describes Bolsonaro’s...
Setting Goals Resolutions Belatina
It’s a new year, which means a fresh start, a chance to do all of the things you set out to do last year (but never did), and kick off with a hopeful beginning to a new year. Or if we’re being honest, it’s a chance to make unrealistic resolutions that we will almost definitely break before the end...
Ayahuasca Mystery BeLatina
The word ayahuasca spills mysteriously from the lips, not unlike the incantation of a magic spell. And while you may not understand exactly what it is or the nature of its unique magic, ayahuasca — a sacred medicinal Amazonian brew made from the Banisteriopsis caapi vine — is as close as it has ever gotten to being a “mainstream”...
Latest Sanctuary City 'Ban' Goes Into Effect in Tennessee on New Year’s Day
Beginning January 1st, 2019, Tennessee will be the latest state to enact a “sanctuary ban” at the state level. Tennessee will be joining Texas, Iowa, and several other states in having passed laws that are designed to discourage or punish local law enforcement for not cooperating with federal immigration authorities’ effort to expel undocumented immigrants from their communities. https://twitter.com/tnimmigrant/status/1093651483189526528 Though...
Chef José Andrés Doing What the President Can’t: Actually Caring for Everyday Americans
Chef José Andrés has served over 40,000 meals to federal workers, government contractors, and their families since opening up an outpost of World Central Kitchen in Washington D.C. last Wednesday. The pop-up kitchen runs on donations and volunteer workers, many of whom are directly affected by the shutdown. “As a furloughed employee, I’ve lost a piece of myself,” said...
Crisis to Creativity: Up Close with All the Art Inspired by the Border Debate
The German philosopher Theodor Adorno famously said that “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” I don’t believe that he meant to put the arts down, even in the face of an atrocity like the Holocaust. Rather, he was pointing out the insufficiency of language to describe this previously unseen horror, even when said language can resort to extreme...
Fall Hair Color Trends You Didn't Know You Needed belatina
Autumn is a great season to switch up your strands and deep reds and browns continue to be a must during fall. We can all agree that the reason behind these earthy tones’ popularity is that they imitate nature, a beautiful way to blend in with Mother Nature.  "Fall hair color trends tend to be darker shades, and during this...