Latino USA

Series produced by Latino USA

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Latino USA chronicles how Latinos are living, shaping and changing America, with in-depth reporting and candid conversations. Hosted by Maria Hinojosa.

Celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2018, Latino USA is the longest running Latino-focused program on U.S. public media, and embodies Futuro Media's mission to elevate the voices of historically marginalized communities through authentic storytelling.


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193 Pieces

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Maria Hinojosa speaks with MIT President Rafael Reif in a conversation that soon gets emotional as they reflect on the value of mutual respect, hum...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 54:01
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We are introduced to the Coachella Valley and the discrepancies between the wealthy west side and the disadvantaged east side where people don’t ha...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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The story of Anthony Acevedo, the first Mexican-American to register as a holocaust survivor at the United States holocaust memorial museum in Wash...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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Nachos are one of the most popular snack foods in the United States. But nachos’ vast popularity overshadows their origins on the U.S.-Mexico borde...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Maria Hinojosa speaks with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones about feeling at home at Howard University, trying to fit-in in pr...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade discusses her newest album “De Todas las Flores” and the emotional journey of writing music amid a glo...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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The children's show "Dora the Explorer" aired nearly 20 years ago. The three creators of the show and the longest-running consultant talk about how...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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What it was like to hear El Gran Varón as a Puerto Rican child growing up in the Bronx, and what the song's lyrics say.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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A conversation between Nadine Córdova and Tim Hernández, two teachers who —almost three decades and more than 400 miles apart— faced the same conse...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Jorge Drexler follows his family’s tradition in medicine just like his father, an ENT doctor and Holocaust survivor who found refuge in Uruguay. Bu...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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We dive into the significance of Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam’s “I Wonder If I Take You Home” …a song that made intergenerational talks about love and se...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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We begin with the birth and upbringing of Teresa Urrea, once called the most dangerous girl in Mexico by the dictator Porfirio Diaz.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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We hear how Puerto Rican salseros began seeing Dominican merengue musicians as unwelcome immigrants who were stealing their jobs in the music scene.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Puerto Rican musicians Villano Antillano and Ana Macho bring both laughter and brutal honesty as they talk about what it’s really like to be a tran...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Antonia Cereijido has an intimate conversation with Luis Moreno Ocampo, the real assistant prosecutor who was portrayed in the Oscar-nominated film...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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When the pioneering translatina activist Lorena Borjas first arrived in the U.S. in the early 80’s, she found both community and crisis. Lorena’s o...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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We bring you a portrait of Latina icon Gloria Estefan. Maria Hinojosa sits down with Gloria to discuss her life, and how she overcame trauma.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Unaware they’re being deceived, Diego and Mario join the H-2A visa program through a local recruiter in Mexico. Meanwhile, the program is experienc...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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We examine the discriminatory and exploitative practices inside a seasonal farm worker program developed during World War II that set the basis for...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Gloria Martinez’s son walked out the door one day and never came back. His disappearance would be revealed to be part of a massive scandal in Colo...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00