Latin American Educational Opportunities

First up - Apple partners with Goldman Sachs to introduce high-yield savings accounts for Apple Card holders Our second story - AI scans Hurricane Ian damage to give cash to poorest victims Our third story - People will throw away about 5.3 billion phones this year For our fourth and final story - Students Are Using AI to Write Their Papers Because, Of Course, They Are BONUS EPISODES Patreon: ✨ w...

Hey, it’s Kevin here. Before we jump in I’d like just to give you all a quick Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of violence against minorities, and other content that some people may find disturbing. Please check the show notes for more detailed descriptions and take care of yourself. During the 36-year-long Guatemalan civil war, indigenous women were systematically raped and ensl...

First up - The U.S. Transportation Department (USDOT) signed off on plans for electric vehicle charging stations across all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Our second story - Lyft and Argo AI have debuted autonomous robotaxi rides for the public in Austin, Texas. Our third story - More than a dozen U.S. financial firms agreed to pay $1.8B in fines to settle charges over improper use...

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake has shaken Mexico’s central Pacific coast, killing at least two people and setting off an earthquake alarm in the capital. Officials said there were also damaged buildings and knocked out power in some areas closer to the epicenter. All this happened on September 19th the same day that major quakes battered the country in 1985 and 2017. Meanwhile, most of Puerto Rico is...

First up - Images and a video of Meta’s next virtual-reality headset have surfaced online. Our second story - Intel broke ground on a $20B chip manufacturing facility outside of Columbus, Ohio. Our third story - TikTok is now testing an experimental feature for its platform that replicates BeReal’s daily photo prompt. Our fourth - Ethereum has completed its anticipated Merge event that switches th...

Hey, it’s Kevin here. Before we jump in I’d like to just give you all a quick Trigger Warning: This episode contains racial trauma, discussions of violence against minorities, and other content that some people may find disturbing. Take care of yourself. Mexican Americans were targeted and systematically abused by law enforcement, and people of Mexican descent were targeted and killed by mob viole...

First up - Logitech’s New Handheld Gaming Device Our second story - California’s Bill Requiring Online Platforms To Add More Safety And Privacy Protections For Minors. Our third story - T-Mobile SpaceX Partnership With Starlink Satellites And for our fourth and final story... Google Invested $1.5 Billion In Crypto Startups BONUS EPISODES Patreon: ✨ www.patreon.com/latinamericaneo ✨ 👉Website: ww...

Episode Description : Today, 45 million Americans collectively owe $1.7 trillion in student loans. The failure by policymakers, regulators, and industry at every stage of the student loan lifecycle has driven nine million student loan borrowers into default, two million behind on payments and an entire generation of borrowers that have been left behind as student debt impacts their retirement savi...

First up - Coming this September Apple is gearing up to show us all the new iPhone 14 along with new Macs, low-end and high-end iPads, and THREE Apple Watch models. Our second story - Google employees petition bosses for abortion policy changes Our third story - China against the recently passed Chips and Science Act in the U.S. And for our fourth and final story... A new report is shining a spotl...

Millions of minority households across the nation are facing distinct, serious financial problems during this period, including many who are being threatened with eviction and face unsafe conditions in their neighborhoods, with few options to help. And when it comes to the Hispanic/Latino community, Latinos are substantially more likely than whites to report they are currently having serious finan...

In 1946 the United States government immorally and unethically and, arguably illegally engaged in research experiments in which more than 5000 uninformed and unconsenting Guatemalan people were intentionally infected with bacteria that cause sexually transmitted diseases. Many have been left untreated to the present day. And although US President Barack Obama apologized in 2010, and although the U...

Episode Description : First up - Last Thursday, the democrats on Capitol Hill introduced legislation that could restore net neutrality and the authority of the Federal Communications Commission to regulate broadband. Our second story - Russia will withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS) after 2024 and build its own orbital station, according to the head of the Roscosmos state space age...

Episode Description : Enovid, the world's first birth control ushered in a new era of sexual autonomy for women. It was marketed as a safe, clinically tested way to take control of reproductive health. The pill had a bright future, but its past is intertwined with eugenics and colonialism. Its clinical trials took place not in the mainland United States, but in Puerto Rico, where strong women were...

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Latino Tik-Tok star Leo González born and raised in Hanford, California has mixed comedy and culture to amass more than 2m followers and more than 66m likes in less than two years on Tik-Tok. His big break came when impersonated a Univision anchor and reporter. “Leo's goal is to try and bridge Latinos with everyone else” and to help bring people together through his comedy because he thinks there’...

For today's tech episode . We’re going to be talking about... the crisis of e-waste and children’s health. We’ll specifically be referencing a report by the World Health Organization from 2021 titled “Children and digital dumpsites: e-waste exposure and child health” The report summarizes the latest scientific knowledge on the links between informal e-waste recycling activities and health outcomes...

Esther Villegas-Sandoval is a sociology professor at the College of the Sequoias. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from California State University, Northridge where she focused her studies on the experiences of undocumented college students in Southern California. Her areas of research and expertise include the experiences & identity management of undocumented students; trauma...

Kicking off Season 4 with how bananas led to the CIA overthrowing the democratically elected government of Guatemala, violently reversing the progressive policies of the civilian governments. A coup that was ordered by the United Fruit Company ushering a 36-year civil war claiming the lives of about 200,000 people. BONUS EPISODES Patreon: ✨ www.patreon.com/latinamericaneo ✨ 👉Website: www.latina...

Born in Guatemala Luis von Ahn is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, the world's most popular language-learning platform. BONUS EPISODES Patreon: ✨ www.patreon.com/latinamericaneo ✨ 👉Website: www.latinamericaneo.org 👉Instagram: @latinamericaneo 🛍 Merch: https://lati...

Episode Description : Mojo Vision has developed a new prototype of its augmented reality contact lenses. Biden warned that the Russian government could use cyberattacks to escalate the crisis. According to reports, Facebook might be underreporting child sexual abuse material. BONUS EPISODES Patreon: ✨ www.patreon.com/latinamericaneo ✨ 👉Website: www.latinamericaneo.org 👉Instagram: @latinamerica...

Since last September, an Indigenous community, refugees forced off their land by armed groups from Colombia's ongoing rural violence, has been living in Bogotá's central Olaya Herrera National Park. BONUS EPISODES Patreon: ✨ www.patreon.com/latinamericaneo ✨ 👉Website: www.latinamericaneo.org 👉Instagram: @latinamericaneo 👉Featured podcast: “A Shot of Truth” https://shotoftruthpodcast.com/ 🛍 Me...

A decade after Mexico became a testbed for the global spy tool now known as Pegasus, prosecutors still cannot say who ordered the mass surveillance of innocent civilians and government critics. BONUS EPISODES Patreon: ✨ www.patreon.com/latinamericaneo ✨ 👉Website: www.latinamericaneo.org 👉Instagram: @latinamericaneo 👉Featured podcast: “Espooky Tales” https://www.espookytales.com/episodes/ 🛍 Me...

In today's episode, we talk about a bill that is expected to be signed into law by Guatemala's conservative president within weeks... if passed it would impose the harshest punishments for abortion of almost any country in Latin America. NYTIMES Article: Https://Www. Nytimes. Com/2022/03/09/World/Americas/Guatemala-Abortion-Prison. Html Bonus Episodes Patreon: ✨ www. Patreon. Com/Latinamericaneo...

The technological singularity—or simply the singularity—is a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization. BONUS EPISODES Patreon: ✨ www.patreon.com/latinamericaneo ✨ 👉Website: www.latinamericaneo.org 👉Instagram: @latinamericaneo 🛍 Merch: https://latinamericaneo.org/shop 🔗LISTEN EN ES...

Undocumented stand-up comedian and Tik-tok content creator Che Guerrero has been facing his undocumented problem for 30 years. He does stand up and puts out content mainly through tik-tok about being undocumented and has recently released his own podcast called “Myundocumentedasspodcast” where he talks to other undocumented people about their personal struggles with the immigration system in a fun...