"Sábado Gigante" creator Don Francisco and Mexican-born film actress Salma Hayek have an important disease in common: diabetes, but they aren't the only ones. In fact, Hispanics represent one out of every five adult diabetic suffers in the U.S. But there are opportunities to improve behaviors.
The pregnant teenager's death has inspired protests against femicide in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and other Latin American regions. Thousands of people have marched to the Argentine capital Buenos Aires condemning violence against women.
Jeanne Córdova, the prolific journalist, pioneer activist and resounding voice of the national lesbian feminist movement, didn't know she was Chicana until the age of 22, and that discovery expanded her disposition.
The U.S. territory Puerto Rico, which has been in and out of recession since 2006 and is currently saddled with $72 billion in public debt, is preparing to overhaul public power company Electric Energy Authority.
BookCon, the annual fan convention established in NYC during the spring of 2014, was a phenomenal success. Welcoming hundreds from the entertainment and book industries and tens of thousands of book lovers, the event offered attendees sprawling diversity during its second year.
On Wednesday Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that he had reached an agreement with Russia's top oil producer Rosneft in which $14 billion would be invested in Venezuela's oil and gas production.
A new study published late last week shows that immigrants are driving the startup economy in the U.S. -- along with showing a boom in immigrant Latino entrepreneurs starting new businesses.
"If I can describe myself in one bite, it would be this, dish, the mini arepa -- it's crispy, sweet, salty, hot, cold, creamy herbaceous, amazingness," Chef Kelvin Fernandez told Latin Post in an exclusive interview for "SABOR."It was this very savory recipe (which includes steak, lime scented sour cream, creamy guacamole, pico de gallo and Cotija cheese) that the Dominican chef claimed victory over the legendary food star and TV personality, Bobby Flay on the Food Network's "Beat Bobby Flay" during Season four, episode five.
It's still the early days of over the top television (OTT or Internet TV), which means the field is still wide open for innovation and less-established players can make a splash. One of those new players is TuYo, billed as the first Internet TV service for Latino millennials, built and owned by Latinos, which is set to launch in the coming weeks.
Born in NYC and raised amid the Germanic culture of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, author Daniel Cubias was considered very exotic. He was the only Latino friend to countless kids, and his cousins were the only other Latinos he knew. That static upbringing helped to shape Cubias' perspective as a writer, sharpen his attentiveness to the progress of U.S. Latinos and urge him to examine his cultural identity.
Could "The Walking Dead" actor Tyler James Williams be the next Spider-Man? Could "The Walking Dead" actor Tyler James Williams be the next Spider-Man? The young actor, best known for his role on "Everybody Hates Chris," admitted during an interview with Flicks and the City that he would be thrilled to play the role of Miles Morales.
Despite being born with beauty and brains, a former Miss Venezuela pageant winner died at the age of 68 after spending the last 15 years of her life in homelessness.
Senior editor at The Atlantic and conservative pundit David Frum caused a mini-tweet storm late last week when he suggested that California's immigration population is at least partly to blame for California's epic drought and subsequent ongoing water crisis.
Venezuelans have been in a rush to unload their depreciating currency, and this has in turn led to a devastating drop in its value, leading the the troubled country closer to an outbreak of hyperinflation.
On Friday, at least 43 people died during a three-hour long gun battle between federal forces and suspected drug gang gunmen on a ranch in western Mexico.
In a move that many Salvadorean Catholics have considered long overdue, Oscar Romero, the Roman Catholic archbishop who was murdered during the 1980-92 civil war, has finally been beatified.
When it comes to making tortillas there's only one way to do it - and that's completely from scratch using indigenous Mexican techniques to make stone-ground Nixtamal tortillas, according to Mexico City native Chef Gonzalo Colin.Chef Colin who is now at the helm of Cantina Rooftop in Hell's Kitchen, New York, (the latest dining/social experience from Pedro Zamora) is igniting his fiery passion for his Mexican roots and artisanal approach to not only tortilla-making, but traditional Mexican cuisine with a modern twist.
DISH Network's Sling TV continues to improve its path blazing Internet TV subscription service, and continues to go after cord-cutting or "cord-never" Latino audiences, with two big additions this week: a new app for Android TV (i.e., the Google Nexus Player), and the addition of ESPN Deportes to its add-on pack for Spanish-speaking live sports nuts.
