Fernanda Echavarri

2 months ago | latinousa.org | Fernanda Echavarri |Luis Eduardo Luna |Angela Kocherga

To say that the United States and Mexico have a complicated relationship is to put it lightly. There is so much that connects the two neighboring countries: rich history, cultural ties, economic partnerships. And so much that causes friction between the two: immigration, drug trafficking, human smuggling, illegal weapons, politics.  Over the last 200 years so much has happened that we could spend many episodes of Latino USA just trying to get through the highlights.

Jan 19, 2025 | latinousa.org | Fernanda Echavarri |Nour Saudi |Luis Eduardo Luna

In the past two weeks, the Eaton and Palisades fires became two of the worst natural disasters in California history. Los Angeles has experienced an unprecedented level of destruction. As wind-driven wildfires raged across the county, entire neighborhoods have been destroyed, displacing thousands of people after losing their homes.

Jul 7, 2024 | latinousa.org | Fernanda Echavarri |Marlon Bishop |Maria Hinojosa |Tara Terranova

In part two of our two-part special, we continue our investigation into the death of a man in a U.S. immigration detention center in 2015. José de Jesús turned himself into Border Patrol saying somebody was after him. Three days later, he died by suicide after stuffing a sock down his throat.

Jun 30, 2024 | latinousa.org | Fernanda Echavarri |Maria Hinojosa |Marlon Bishop |Tara Terranova

A man dies in a U.S. immigration detention center, under unusual circumstances. He is found unresponsive in his cell, with a sock stuffed down his throat. His death is ruled a suicide, but little information is put out about what happened, and the family wants answers.

Jun 23, 2024 | latinousa.org | Fernanda Echavarri |Maria Hinojosa |PENILEY RAMIREZ |Peniley Ramírez |Luis Luna

A few months ago, an unprecedented crisis happened in Sasabe, a small Mexican town in a remote area of the border with Arizona. A U.S. construction company closed a huge gap in the border wall that was located near the town—which was used by a group of the Sinaloa cartel to smuggle migrants into the U.S.“That gap was very easy for that group (of the cartel) already in that town,” Dora Rodriguez, a humanitarian advocate based in Tucson, told Latino USA.