Claudia Perez’s children could count on one hand the number of times they had seen their father cry. The day their mother left was one of them. Perez had worked her whole life for a dream that did not come true: Save enough money to take her family back to Mexico and live together in […]
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After 25 years of selling tamales in Chicago, an undocumented immigrant mother returns to Mexico without her family
Gov. Katie Hobbs signs bills to ‘free the tamales,’ make Pluto an official state planet
The tamales have been freed. Gov. Katie Hobbs signed a new version of the cottage food industry bill she vetoed last year, much to the disappointment of many people in her own party. Many types of homemade perishable foods can soon be legally sold and ordered online in Arizona, as long as the makers follow […]
Take a look inside a huge Peru navy ship in Miami. There are blueberries, pisco, tamales
You may not realize it, but your clothes, blueberries, and increasingly your avocados come from this country. If you’re stumped, then you may want to head to downtown Miami and look for a massive ship and see what’s on display. The B.A.P. Unión, a four-masted flagship of the Peruvian navy, docked at Maurice Ferré Park […]