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María Hinojosa to Latinos: “We have to eat that fear”

Emmy-winning journalist and author Maria Hinojosa, of Mexican descent, talks about being the first Latina to work in all the newsrooms she’s ever worked, in her new book “Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America.”

The long-time host of the National Public Radio Latinos in the US, tells the story of her life, as an immigrant, storyteller, advocate for Latinos, as well as the challenges she had to overcome to succeed as a journalist.

Hinojosa details her struggle with anxiety, being a mother, her career and becoming a media entrepreneur. She also opens up about the historical events that shaped her life and the stories she has covered as a reporter. Such as the Salvadoran refugees who became her friends at school, who were exiled from their country because of the U.S. intervention in Central America. For decades, she covered news about immigration and the U.S. policies behind the way they treat its most vulnerable residents.

There are few people who can afford to be “first”, the ones who break down barriers that will indirectly help more people. Journalist Maria Hinojosa is one of those people. But she would not have made it without putting aside her fear of “eating it”, as she puts it.

“I talk about it a lot, because I was the first Latina to work in all my newsrooms. The first on NPR, on CNN, on CBS. The first to create my own nonprofit journalistic company,” she says. “When you’re the first one, when you’re a Latina, you’re obviously scared… but one of the most beautiful things I’ve been able to understand is why I was able to eat that fear.

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Hinojosa refers to the company The Futuro Media Group, which she launched in 2010. A positive consequence of having lost her fear, thanks in large part to her life partner, her husband Germán Pérez, a Dominican painter.

Once I Was You, tells the author’s stark truth, from being raped in her youth in Mexico, to her struggle as a woman in a career exclusively for men, to the love-hate relationship that many have with the country that has welcomed them as migrants: The United States.

International

Bolsonaro diagnosed with skin cancer amid coup conviction

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been diagnosed with skin cancer while serving a historic sentence for attempting a coup d’état. His medical team confirmed that the lesions have been removed and that, for now, he does not require further procedures, though he will need regular monitoring.

On Wednesday, September 17, Bolsonaro’s doctors confirmed the diagnosis. The announcement comes shortly after the former leader was convicted of orchestrating an attempted coup.

According to his physician, Claudio Birolini, Bolsonaro has “squamous cell carcinoma, which is neither the most benign nor the most aggressive form — it is intermediate.” Birolini warned, however, that this type of skin cancer “can carry more serious consequences.”

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Milei praises Paraguay’s growth, calls Argentina’s last 20 years a ‘decline’

Argentine President Javier Milei praised Paraguay’s economic growth over the past two decades during a speech before the Paraguayan Congress on Wednesday (Sept. 17, 2025), crediting it to incentives that favored capitalism. At the same time, he contrasted that progress with what he described as Argentina’s deepening “decline” during the same period.

“If we compare the last 20 years of Paraguay with those of the Argentine Republic, we will find almost diametrically opposite results,” Milei told lawmakers during a special session of Parliament on the second and final day of his official visit to Asunción.

“While you have not stopped growing, we have deepened our decline. If we understand incentives as the engine of capitalism, Paraguay focused on preserving and strengthening them, while Argentina dedicated itself to chaining, directing, and suffocating them,” the right-wing leader stated.

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Trump administration launches large-scale immigration operation in Chicago

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump intensified a large-scale immigration operation in the Chicago area with the arrival of additional Border Patrol agents on Tuesday and the presence of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem during a raid.

Noem posted a video on her X account showing the immigration operation, in which DHS reportedly removed “violent criminals” from the streets. The footage shows Noem observing the arrest of a man taken into custody at his home early Tuesday morning at an undisclosed location.

“I was in Chicago today to make it clear that we will not back down,” the secretary wrote. “Our work is just beginning,” she added.

The warning from Noem was echoed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Chief Gregory Bovino, who posted a video on X Tuesday showing multiple Border Patrol vehicles arriving in the city with the caption: “Chicago, we are here!”

Bovino, who led the immigration crackdown in Los Angeles implemented since last June, said the team will remain in Chicago to continue the mission they started in California.

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Operation “Midway Blitz” is currently focused on the Chicago metropolitan area and its suburbs. Activists and residents have reported sightings of masked agents and unmarked vehicles in predominantly Latino neighborhoods.