Alejandro Figueroa
Food and Agriculture Reporter at Oregon Public Broadcasting
Food & Agriculture reporter for @OPB | @scrippsjschool alum | De la isla 🇵🇷 send news tips: [email protected] Note: I’m not active on here
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1 week ago |
metro.pr | Alejandro Figueroa
No siempre es fácil saber si el presidente Donald Trump habla en serio o nos está tomando el pelo, y tal vez lo hace a propósito. ¿Reabrir Alcatraz? ¿Canadá como el estado 51? ¿Un arancel a todas las películas extranjeras? Ahora ver una película hecha en el extranjero es una amenaza para nuestra seguridad nacional, pero usar TikTok, una plataforma de redes sociales propiedad de una empresa con sede en China, ¿no es nada de qué preocuparse?
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1 week ago |
opb.org | Alejandro Figueroa
As Oregon food banks continue to see a rise in visits, anti-hunger groups and parents are urging state lawmakers to pass a bill that would extend food assistance benefits to children who could be denied access to food programs because of their immigration status. FILE -Oregon State Capitol building, May 18, 2021.
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1 week ago |
opb.org | Alejandro Figueroa
Growing up in Guatemala, Alejandro Tecum wanted nothing to do with farming, he said. “When I was younger, I worked on my parents’ land and I came to hate it with all my soul because it was hard work,” he said in Spanish. Álvaro Aguilar walks across a his two-acre farm in rural Washington County on April 18, 2025. Aguilar took the Adelante Mujeres agriculture course in 2018 and now runs Real Tex Mex with his wife. “We were killing the soil, every year we were killing the soil,” he said.
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1 week ago |
opb.org | Alejandro Figueroa
For many years, farmworker groups have marched to the Oregon State House to commemorate the fight for workers rights on May Day. But for hundreds of people who took to the streets in Salem on Thursday, the focus this year was different. Antonia de Jesus (left) holding a sign that roughly translates to get lost immigration feds at a May Day march organized by farmworker advocacy group PCUN in Salem, Ore., on May 1, 2025.
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2 weeks ago |
metro.pr | Alejandro Figueroa
Después de unos primeros 100 días que parecieron una carrera de 100 metros enfocada en las prioridades internas, el enfoque del presidente Donald Trump está girando hacia el extranjero, impulsado por una montaña de negociaciones comerciales con otros países, incluida China, y las promesas incumplidas de lograr la paz en Ucrania.
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