Vivian is a writer and activist. The daughter and wife of Cuban immigrants, she grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She lives in the beautiful mountains of Reno, Nevada. Vivian is committed to giving voice to humanitarian principles and working to hear them reflected in law and in the larger state and national dialogue. She has lived with multiple sclerosis for 20 years.
My husband Daniel and I were born in the same year to Cuban parents. But the stories of our childhoods are very
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Unaccompanied minors, mostly adolescents, keep arriving at the southern border as news spreads among the desperate and “tempest-tossed” in Central America that the United States will not abandon or refuse children. Their parents are willing to rip out their own
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Imagine that, to skirt the law, teenager José Méndez asks a friend to buy him a semiautomatic rifle and then decides to cross the border to another state. What would happen if
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It is not news that the price of drugs in the United States is out of control, especially for patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, multiple sclerosis, high
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No es nueva noticia que el precio de los medicamentos en Estados Unidos está fuera de control, sobre todo para las familias con pacientes de enfermedades crónicas como la diabetes, la artritis
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Para una versión en inglés de este artículo, lea "A Recurring Nightmare." Llevo una semana sin dormir, haciendo algo que se ha convertido en una pesadilla repetitiva, pero imprescindible–ayudar a amigos y
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For a Spanish-language version of this article, read "Manos a la Obra." I have not slept a full night for weeks, doing something that has become a recurring but necessary nightmare —
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Las familias hispanas tenemos historias llenas de adversidad, retos y mucho, mucho trabajo. Generaciones han sufrido las consecuencias de movimientos armados — políticos o criminales — y todos compartimos un intenso amor
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Unaccompanied minors, mostly adolescents, keep arriving at the southern border as news spreads among the desperate and “tempest-tossed” in Central America that the United States will not abandon or refuse children. Their
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My husband Daniel and I were born in the same year to Cuban parents. But the stories of our childhoods are very different. My parents were upper-middle class from Havana and able
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Calladita te ves más bonita,” me decía mi abuelita. Pero entonces sin fallo, me miraba de reojo y me guiñaba. Pícara pero prudente, en los años 70 cuando primero se propuso la
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Las devastadoras fotos de los niños separados de sus familias en la frontera como parte de la política de “cero tolerancia” de la administración Trump se clavaron en nuestro corazón. Para mi,
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