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							<title>At Least 39 Dead in Fire at a Migrant Center in Ciudad Juarez</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashley Mercado]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2023 23:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[The journey migrants face trying to enter the U.S. is known to be hazardous and full of dangers and recently that was tragically apparent after a fire broke out at a migrant center. Mexican officials confirmed the deaths of at least 39 migrants with 29 people injured on March 28 in the center located in]]></description>
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							<title>Inspiring Latina Changemakers During the Covid Pandemic</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shayne Rodriguez Thompson]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[The COVID-19 pandemic has been raging on throughout the entire world for the better part of two years now. While there have been massive improvements and advancements made since March 2021, when the first shut downs and stay-at-home orders took place in the United States, we still have a long way to go, and Latinas]]></description>
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							<title>First Gen Students Struggle to Go Back to School Amid Ongoing Pandemic</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laysha Macedo]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2021 23:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[As I prepare for my return to campus, I've reflected on how this year of isolation went.]]></description>
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							<title>Homeschooling During the Coronavirus Pandemic Has Changed Me as a Mom</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/covid-pandemic-homeschooling/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shayne Rodriguez Thompson]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2021 18:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[The past year has been intense for well, pretty much everyone around the world, but mothers, in particular, have taken on an outsized burden that has left us overwhelmed, frazzled, and absolutely exhausted. We&#8217;ve all been forced to make seemingly impossible decisions about how we would organize our family lives while we&#8217;ve spent the greater]]></description>
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							<title>Covid Vaccine Program for POC in LA Misused in Affluent Communities</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/covid-vaccine-poc-misused-los-angeles/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 21:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Communities of color in California have had difficulty accessing the Covid-19 vaccine and now a program designed to aid them has been misused by affluent Angelenos, the Los Angeles Times reported. In an investigation the newspaper conducted, they found that vaccine appointment codes designed for residents of underserved Black and Latinx areas were being distributed]]></description>
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							<title>Coachella in California is First City in Nation to Give Hero Pay to Farmworkers</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/latinos-coronavirus-vaccine-farmworkers/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2021 22:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[The Coachella City Council unanimously approved &#8220;hero pay&#8221; for certain essential workers and extended the hazard benefits to farmworkers.The emergency ordinance requires certain agricultural operations – in addition to grocery stores, retail pharmacy stores and restaurants – to provide an additional $4 per hour to their employees in Coachella for at least 120 days. Coachella]]></description>
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							<title>18-Year Old Wilber Portillo Dies After Second Bout of COVID-19</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/wilbur-portillo-dead-contracted-covid19-twice/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shayne Rodriguez Thompson]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[An 18-year-old Latino man from Denver, Colorado has died after enduring two bouts of the deadly virus COVID-19. Wilber Portillo reportedly contracted the novel coronavirus twice just a couple of weeks apart back in the fall, ultimately passing away on November 19 due to complications from the virus that has caused a global pandemic for]]></description>
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							<title>Americans Flee to Mexico to Escape Strict Quarantine</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/americans-moving-mexico-escape-quarantine/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[The quarantine in the U.S. remains intact and some Americans have decided to flee to Mexico to escape strict stay-at-home orders. The New York Times recently did a report exploring the influx of Americans looking to settle down in Mexico to return to some sense of &#8220;normalcy&#8221; despite the coronavirus pandemic worsening in Mexico. Though]]></description>
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							<title>Former Covid Patient Margarita Montanez Made 800 Tamales for Health Care Workers</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/margarita-montanez-covid-19-tamales/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 17:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Margarita Montanez spent 20 days in the hospital in April battling coronavirus and now she&#8217;s giving back to those who helped heal her by making 800 tamales, KTLA reported. The San Fernando Valley resident was hooked up to a ventilator for several days in the intensive care unit at Cedars-Sinai, a nonprofit hospital in Los]]></description>
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							<title>4-Year-Old Raiden Gonzalez Lost Both His Parents to Covid-19</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/raiden-gonzalez-lost-parents-covid-19/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[When the coronavirus pandemic first hit the initial reports stated that the elderly and those with underlying health issues were most vulnerable. Now stories like that of 4-year-old Raiden Gonzalez are sobering reminders that no one is immune. Raiden&#8217;s parents — Adan Gonzalez Jr., 33, and Mariah Gonzalez, 29 — died within months of each]]></description>
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							<title>Latinas Had the Highest Unemployment Rate this Year</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/latinas-had-the-highest-unemployment-rate-this-year/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2020 00:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Americans across the nation have been affected by the pandemic, but Latinas have experienced most job losses this year. The Latina unemployment rate hit 20.2 percent in April, meaning one in five Latinas was out of work. From August to September, Latina unemployment rose monthly while it dropped for everyone else, and it&#8217;s now at]]></description>
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							<title>78% of Kids Dying from Covid-19 In the U.S. are Black and Brown</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/covid-19-deaths-children-of-color/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2020 17:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[The majority of kids dying from Covid-19 are Latinx, Black, or Native American. There are a total of 390,000 confirmed Covid-19 cases among children in the U.S. and 121 have proved fatal, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers analyzed the number of coronavirus cases and deaths among people]]></description>
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							<title>8 Latin Celebrities Who Caught the Coronavirus</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/8-latin-celebrities-who-caught-the-coronavirus/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sujeiry Gonzalez]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2020 20:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[There’s no point in denying it: coronavirus has basically taken over 2020. COVID-19 has affected so many lives and that includes our favorite celebrities. High-profile Latin artists such as J Balvin and Karol G have come out and said they had tested positive for the coronavirus. Not only have they shared their stories with their]]></description>
														
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							<title>Covid-19 Deaths Spike Among Latino Essential Workers in California</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/covid-19-deaths-latino-california/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[The Latino community is experiencing spikes in covid-19 related deaths as the stay at home order has been partially lifted in California. The state saw a five-fold increase in coronavirus death rates among working age Latino in the span of three months, according to a new report released by the Center for the Study of]]></description>
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							<title>Back to School? The Reality of Homeschooling in 12 Hilarious Memes</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/homeschooling-memes-back-to-school/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2020 22:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[How to educate your kids is a decision each parent has to make now in the midst of a pandemic that has left a lot of us between a rock and a hard place. The two (pretty terrible) options of keeping our kids home while attending school via Zoom, or pulling them all out together]]></description>
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							<title>Everything You Need to Know Before Going to the Salon</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/everything-you-need-to-know-before-making-your-first-salon-appointment/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sujeiry Gonzalez]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2020 20:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Remember salons? Yeah, same. It’s been about four months since we’ve been in quarantine and pretty much every girl on social media has cut her own bangs, rocked the coronabrow, or bought stick-on nails off of the Internet. Now, some people consider manicures non-essential but for Latinas, acrylic nails are life and you better believe]]></description>
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							<title>The Best Games and Puzzles to Entertain You en Cuarentena</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[With many states seeing a spike in coronavirus cases, we are nowhere near out of the woods with this horrible pandemic. The safest thing to do is stay at home unless totally necessary. But that doesn&#8217;t mean you have to be bored or feel like you&#8217;re missing out. You can have just as much fun]]></description>
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							<title>15 Things You Need to Hear and Do Right Now</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/15-things-you-need-to-hear-and-do-right-now/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2020 22:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[We are in the midst of unprecedented times. On one side, we are still trying to fight off coronavirus, in constant fear of a new surge come fall. On the other, we are still trying to fight off racism, risking our lives to stand up for what is right and just. Although we are doing]]></description>
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							<title>25 Ways to Handle Your Anxiety During Quarantine</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/anxiety-quarantine-mental-health/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2020 19:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[anxiety]]></category>
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															<description><![CDATA[Staying home 24/7 can cause some serious anxiety. You can begin to feel restless, annoyed, sad, or cycle through what seems like all the emotions known to man. First, this is perfectly okay and normal; two, it is also very healthy to talk about these feelings to your circle of support and/or a professional to]]></description>
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							<title>Dominican Artist M. Tony Peralta Is Using Art to Help Us Get Through This Pandemic</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/dominican-artist-tony-peralta-pandemic-art/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Johanna Ferreira]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2020 19:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Since the pandemic hit, many of us have been desperately looking for ways to keep our spirits lifted amid the COVID-19 crisis. We’ve been looking for healthy escapes to relieve us of our isolation, whether it be filling our evenings with happy hour Zoom calls with close family and friends, picking up new and creative]]></description>
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							<title>Coronavirus Crisis: 85% of ICE Detainees Tested are Positive for Covid-19</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/coronavirus-ice-detainees-positive-covid19/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[ICE recently announced that it has tested 995 of its 30,737 detainees as of April 21 and of those, 449 have tested positive. Of the 1.38 percent of the detainees that have been tested,  about 85 percent were positive, with the largest number of cases (94) occurring at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San]]></description>
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							<title>A Pandemic Soundtrack: 15 Coronavirus Songs to Rock Out To</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/a-pandemic-soundtrack-15-coronavirus-parodies/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Music has always reflected the times in which is it made, and this is no different during the coronavirus pandemic. Many have created songs to make us laugh during this trying time, others have penned lyrics to inform us and help keep us safe, and all appear to have the common thread of offering a]]></description>
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							<title>LISTEN: The Official Spanish U.S. National Anthem Pays Tribute to Latino Frontline Workers</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/listen-the-official-spanish-u-s-national-anthem-pays-tribute-to-latino-frontline-workers/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hip Latina]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Did you know that in 1945, musician and composer Clotilde Arias was commissioned by the U.S. State Department under President Roosevelt to create an original translation of the national anthem into Spanish? It was part of FDR&#8217;s Good Neighbor Policy with Latin America with the intention that the anthem could be sung, shared abroad and]]></description>
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							<title>15 Latinx Brands Making Face Masks to Protect Against Coronavirus</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/15-latinx-brands-making-face-masks-to-protect-against-coronavirus/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afro-Latinx brands]]></category>
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															<description><![CDATA[With coronavirus present in all 50 states, we are hunkering down, only going out for essential things like going to the pharmacy to pick up medicine and to the supermarket to grab some groceries. Right now, it is all about protecting yourself, your loved ones, and everyone else as we try to ride out this]]></description>
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							<title>Coronavirus Crisis: AOC Says Trump&#8217;s Response Is Costing People&#8217;s Lives</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/coronavirus-crisis-aoc-trumps-response-costing-lives/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Araceli Cruz]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2020 13:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[From the moment the coronavirus entered our lives, President Donald Trump unleashed lies about the disease. While the level of severity has increased immensely, Trump&#8217;s inactions and falsehoods continue, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that has got to stop.  The New York representative appeared on CNN to discuss how this health crisis is affecting local]]></description>
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							<title>9 Easy Ways to Meal Prep While in Quarantine</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/easy-quarantine-meal-prep-tips/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sujeiry Gonzalez]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2020 00:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[It’s safe to say that this is a pretty stressful time for all of us. We are all probably feeling anxious and overwhelmed by the coronavirus and social distancing. Not only are we concerned about our health and the health of others, but staying in has come with it&#8217;s all share of challenges. Some of]]></description>
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							<title>Coronavirus: Tips for Surviving School Closures</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/coronavirus-surviving-school-closures-tips/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shayne Rodriguez Thompson]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official. Schools all over the United States are shutting down due to novel coronavirus. As of March 13, seven states have ordered that all schools close and many districts in other states are voluntarily closing as well. Closing schools is certainly a safe measure for controlling the spread of COVID-19, but it&#8217;s leaving lots]]></description>
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							<title>Coronavirus Memes That&#8217;ll Make You Laugh During this Hard Time</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/coronavirus-memes-and-posts-thatll-make-you-laugh-during-this-hard-time/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 21:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[The coronavirus, also known as COVID-19 is not a laughing matter. People are getting sick, and some are dying from the virus. We have been hearing about it nonstop on our TVs, across social media, and everywhere online. Some of the important things you should know to prevent catching coronavirus is to wash your hands]]></description>
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