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.


Additional Files

189 Pieces

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Maria Hinojosa sits down with legendary labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta. They discuss politics, the current state of democrac...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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World-famous conductor Gustavo Dudamel talks about his many jobs — from arts educator to heading the L.A. Philharmonic — and the importance of stay...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Maria Hinojosa and Latino USA producer Reynaldo Leaños Jr. ride Air Force Two with Vice President Kamala Harris to an event in Miami, Florida. Mari...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Latino USA visits University Park, a neighborhood in South Los Angeles, and the epicenter of a battle brewing between communities who are fighting ...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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We meet former bracero worker Juan Loza and his niece, Georgetown University historian Mireya Loza, as they start their conversation exploring the ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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An eccentric group of cryptocurrency investors arrive in Puerto Rico with plans to change “everything” on the island. They meet resistance from loc...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Latino USA producer Reynaldo Leaños Jr. travels to Kodiak, Alaska to witness the impact of climate change on a community that’s relied on the fishi...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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We accompany Mary Estrada as she drives from Pomona, California to San Diego to visit her husband Robert, who is incarcerated.

  • Added: Sep 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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We look at the history of the student loan system in the U.S and dive into the story of Nathan Hornes, a former student at a for-profit college tha...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Latino USA producer Reynaldo Leaños Jr. introduces us to the parents of fallen Marine David Lee Espinoza and we learn about David’s childhood in La...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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A conversation with poet and revolutionary Gioconda Belli, who is living in exile in Spain after being stripped of her Nicaraguan citizenship by th...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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We meet Elvis and Wendy, Guatemalan newlyweds who flee violent extortion threats only to be detained at the U.S.-Mexico border.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Latino USA tells the story of heavy metal music and its huge appeal in Latin America.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Producer Patricia Sulbarán digs into how Latino USA covered the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and, in the process, finds a woman leading the figh...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Meg Medina, award-winning author and the first Latina National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, shares what it was like to grow up as a Cu...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Latino USA and Black Public Media bring you Alzheimer’s In Color. The story of Ramona Latty, a Dominican immigrant, as told by her daughter Yvonne.

  • Added: Aug 02, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Producer Jeanne Montalvo’s son Martin has a difficult time at a daycare ill equipped for bilingual children. But then, she found solidarity in an i...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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We meet Viviana, a young Venezuelan woman who was held at Stewart Detention Center, an ICE facility in Georgia. She says that while held there, she...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Latino USA brings you back to 1968, when thousands of students participated in a series of protests that helped spark the Chicano Movement, histori...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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A conversation with pioneering documentary filmmaker Hector Galán, who returns to Latino USA 30 years after his first appearance in the show.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 54:01