Latino USA

In this intimate reflection, Colombian-American producer Tasha Sandoval takes listeners with her as she returns to her native Colombia, after a lifetime of living in the United States, first as a Latina immigrant and then as a US citizen. For a few years, Tasha has had a growing desire: to find out what life would be like if she relocated to the country her parents left, her homeland. And she’s not the only one–Latin American diasporas in the U.S., including many U.S.-born Latinos, are seeking connections to their ancestral homelands. Tasha takes us on her journey as she tries to answer a question: What happens when you are willing to return home? Latino USA is the longest-running news and culture radio program in the U.S., centering Latino stories and hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa. Follow the show to get every episode.  Follow us on TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@futuromedia] and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@LatinoUSA]. Subscribe to our newsletter [https://www.futuromediagroup.org/subscribe/].  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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 the Trump administration targets non-citizens in unprecedented ways, we revisit some of the major changes and events that over the past 20 years altered the U.S. stance towards immigrants through the lens of this one catastrophic day. Latino USA is the longest-running news and culture radio program in the U.S., centering Latino stories and hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa. Follow the show to get every episode.  Follow us on TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@futuromedia] and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@LatinoUSA]. Subscribe to our newsletter [https://www.futuromediagroup.org/subscribe/].  This episode originally aired in 2021. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Is the Addams family Latino? Maria Hinojosa embarks on a quest to unravel this mystery. She interviews actor Luis Guzmán, who plays Gomez Addams in the hit Netflix show “Wednesday,” to discuss his character, the family values in the show and to get answers about the true origin of this iconic family. They also discuss Luis’ upbringing in New York City, why Latino men shifted toward the right in the 2024 US elections, Guzmán’s relationship with Bad Bunny and how the Addams family and their weirdness is also our own. Latino USA is the longest-running news and culture radio program in the U.S., centering Latino stories and hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa. Follow the show to get every episode.  Follow us on TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@futuromedia] and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@LatinoUSA]. Subscribe to our newsletter [https://www.futuromediagroup.org/subscribe/].  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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 not necessarily factual. But foremost, it is an ancestral tongue that has connected and bonded Latinos for generations. In this episode of Latino USA, producers Monica Morales-Garcia and Elisa Baena travel deep into a chismosa’s universe with the help of chisme experts from reality TV, entertainment news and academia. Follow them on this journey to understand why chisme is so central in the lives of Latinas and Latinos. This episode aired originally in April of 2022. Latino USA is the longest-running news and culture radio program in the U.S., centering Latino stories and hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa. Follow the show to get every episode.  Follow us on TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@futuromedia] and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@LatinoUSA]. Subscribe to our newsletter [https://www.futuromediagroup.org/subscribe/].  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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 the dance floor. Eddie was the first Latino artist to win a Grammy award and is credited with being a major force behind the Latin jazz boom that hit New York in the 1970s. Eddie passed away earlier this month at the age of 88. To celebrate his brilliant life and the endless creativity of this salsa legend, we want to share with you the last interview he had with Maria Hinojosa. Latino USA is the longest-running news and culture radio program in the U.S., centering Latino stories and hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa. Follow the show to get every episode.  Follow us on TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@futuromedia] and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@LatinoUSA]. Subscribe to our newsletter [https://www.futuromediagroup.org/subscribe/].  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.