This Is Happening: Bulletproof School Uniforms

By Sugey Palomares | 04/24/2013 - 11:56 |

This Is Happening: Bulletproof School Uniforms

Yes, the world has come to this. Bulletproof school uniforms are being designed for students in the U.S. Colombian tailor, Miguel Caballero, who specializes in designing protective wear in Bogota, recently developed protective kid-sized vests for our schoolchildren.

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9 Latin Sorority Sisters React to Angry Sorority Girl Letter!

By Amaris Castillo | 04/24/2013 - 10:37 |

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By now you’ve heard of the deranged sorority email. I’m pretty sure we all have.

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Mexican Barbie: She Still Looks Nothing Like You

By Laura Elizabeth Hernandez | 04/20/2013 - 11:00 |

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Judging from Latinos’ outrage that Mattel’s latest Hispanic doll, Mexico Barbie, is offensive, I may stand alone when I say that being excluded from the Barbie collection, period, would not have been a bad thing.

Barbie has always been a doll that promotes stereotypes and an unrealistic ideal of beauty (not to mention that they are the dullest people at the party. Growing up, I used to borrow my brother’s Ninja Turtles just to liven up my playtime with Ken and Barbie and their insipid pink convertible).

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Living with Terror: Latin America Does It. Post Boston, Are We Next?

By Pauline Campos | 04/19/2013 - 17:20 |

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Growing up, my sisters and I called our grandfather Guelo and he referred to us as his little cabronas. It always made me smile. Though we were very close, when he died two years ago, I had to content myself with attending his wake in Detroit. Only a handful of relatives made the journey for his funeral and burial in Cerralvo, a small municipality near the northeastern city of Monterrey, Mexico.

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20 Things That Will Happen Before Taco Bell’s Healthier 2020 Menu

By Irina Gonzalez | 04/19/2013 - 16:20 | 0 Comments

We were really glad to hear that Taco Bell is taking health seriously these days. With their diet-friendly Fresco Menu and healthy gourmet Cantina Bell menu, designed by Latina chef Lorena Garcia, they seemed to be doing pretty well. And then they wanted to do more, so they announced their commitment to better nutrition by promising healthier meals on their menus by 2020. 

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Naya Rivera will star in Glee: 10 Year Reunion concert in 3D: After all of the New Directions kids have graduated high school, college and gone on to their respective careers, the cast and crew will reunite for one last blowout tour. Naturally, that will also be when Naya’s Santana and Heather Morris’ Brittany will get back together and get married live on stage.

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UPDATE: What We Know About the Boston Bombings - 2 Suspects, 1 Dead, 1 Captured

By Latina Staff | 04/19/2013 - 09:27 |

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UPDATE, 9:00pm ET, April 19: Boston Police report they have captured the second suspect identified in the Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19. The suspect was taken alive from a private residence at 67 Franklin St. in Watertown, MA, where he was believed to be hiding inside a dry docked boat in the backyard. 

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