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Patients like Chavez are part of what doctors in Tijuana call la ola verde--the "green wave" of Southern California residents washing into the border city's medical clinics. Attracted by low prices and easy access, cash-paying travelers, most of them Latino, have for years come from as far north as San Francisco to obtain medical and dental care in Tijuana and other border towns. But these days, the patients are carrying fewer greenbacks and more plastic insurance cards, as a growing number of U.S. health-insurance companies offer bargain prices for those willing to get their care...
After submitting an “ambitious” proposal aiming to bring Harvard to the forefront of major research on Latino studies last April, a leading Latino studies professor has received $75,000 from University Provost Steven E. Hyman to spearhead an interfaculty initiative on “Immigration and Well-being...
Describing the grant as the first phase of an ongoing initiative, Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, chair of the Inter-Faculty Committee on Latino Studies at the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, said the money will be used to coordinate research efforts of about a dozen professors studying issues surrounding immigration and culture in the United States...
After that meeting, which was scheduled to discuss the impending proposal for a Latino Studies center which was submitted the previous summer, Hyman invited the professors to submit a proposal for an inter-faculty initiative on globalization and immigration...
Cuba and its rich history come to life in the photography exhibit now on display at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. According to Jose Luis Falconi, Latin American and Latino Art Forum coordinator and curator of the exhibition, “Cuba is very difficult to frame.” But this small show, representing two generations of Cuban history, manages to express the complexity of Cuban society in a way accessible to Harvard students...