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Mariana Martínez Barba
Bilingual Reporter and Multimedia Journalist

“The fight continues”: Border activists brace for Trump’s return (Los Angeles Times)
With Inauguration Day quickly approaching, activists at the U.S.-Mexico border are preparing for what the future might bring under Trump's administration. Despite the obstacles, volunteers are driven to show up in these barren regions to help protect lives. (Photo Credit: Hayne Palmour IV)

With Haitian migration growing, a Mexico City family of doctors is helping out (Associated Press)
Surging gang violence in Haiti has displaced nearly 580,000 Haitians internally since March 2024, according to a recent report from the U.N. migration agency. Doctor Hernández Pacheco wants her clinic to be a safe haven for Haitian migrants. (Photo Credit: Mariana Martínez Barba)

In Mexico, an Indigenous Triqui artist embraces his roots through contemporary rap (Associated Press)
In Mexico, an Indigenous Triqui artist embraces his roots through contemporary rap. His verses are reflective of his culture, representing his origins as a descendant of the Triqui nation. (Photo Credit: Mariana Martínez Barba)

California Committee Passes Bill for Domestic Workers’ Rights (Futuro Media)
When news broke that SB686, a bill meant to ensure safer working conditions for domestic workers had advanced out of the Committee on Labor and Employment, workers nearly lifted and paraded the bill’s sponsor, Sen. María Elena Durazo (D), around out of sheer joy. (Photo Credit: Pedroncelli)

Mexico City’s floating gardens have fed people for hundreds of years. Now they’re threatened (Associated Press)
Food from these islands has fed people for hundreds of years, but the chinampas are under threat from urbanization. The produce grown here doesn’t fetch much money, and many families are abandoning the ancient practice to rent out or sell their land. (Photo Credit: Felix Marquez)

For New York’s Ecuadorean diaspora, ecuavoley is a slice of home (Los Angeles Times)
The Ecuadorean sport ecuavoley can be found in almost every borough across New York City. As Ecuadoreans continue to integrate this pastime to their lives in New York, they are transmitting a unique cultural identity and creating community in a city that often sees them as invisible. (Photo Credit: Mariana Martínez Barba)

The Untold Story of the Latin Women’s Collective (Women's Media Center)
In the United States, Civil Rights, anti-war and militant movements in the 1960s and 1970s pressured for representation, equality and transformation. The women who formed the LWC in 1975 came out of leftist organizing in New York City. (Photo Credit: Mariana Martínez Barba

US diplomat warns of great consequences for migrants at border who don’t choose legal pathways (Associated Press)
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar warned that migrants who do not opt for a legal pathway into the U.S. will face great consequences, a message coming at a time when the Biden administration needs Mexico’s cooperation. (Photo Credit: Marco Ugarte)

How Mon Laferte Emanated her “Imagined Country” with Mujeres del Viento Florido (Remezcla)
Latina musician Mon Laferte divides her time in two countries—Chile and Mexico—but still carries the nostalgia of these environments through her contemplative scores. (Photo Credit: Lawrence Sumulong)
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