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Uvalde, Resistiendo y Levantándose

Durante el año pasado, desde el tiroteo en la escuela de Uvalde, Futuro Investigas ha estado documentando el trauma de la comunidad y la lucha por los rifles de asalto. Nuestro equipo examina la respuesta policial, la historia de lucha y curación de Uvalde.

Published on: June 2, 2023

Government, Humanity

Uvalde, Resisting and Rising

For the past year, since the Uvalde school shooting, Futuro Investigates have been documenting the community’s trauma and the fight over assault rifles. Our team examines the police response, Uvalde’s history of struggle and healing.

Published on: June 2, 2023

Humanity, Spanish

Aire que no Podemos Captar: La Materia Insidiosa del Monóxido de Carbono

Aunque el envenenamiento por monóxido de carbono se puede prevenir, siguen ocurriendo violaciones a la seguridad de la vivienda, lesiones y muertes. Desde el otoño de 2022, Futuro Investiga investiga por qué siguen ocurriendo incidentes y cómo los residentes latinos y negros se ven afectados de manera desproporcionada por el gas letal.

Published on: May 11, 2023

Humanity

Air We Can’t Grasp: The Insidious Matter of Carbon Monoxide

“Even though carbon monoxide poisoning is preventable, housing safety violations, injuries and deaths keep occurring. Since Fall 2022, Futuro Investigates digs into why incidents keep happening and how Latino and Black residents are disproportionally affected by the deadly gas.”

Published on: May 11, 2023

Government

Baja La Cabeza

En 2018, Diego y Mario se unieron al programa de visas H-2A patrocinado por el gobierno de EE. UU., dejando a sus familias en su país de origen, México, para cosechar arándanos en una granja en Carolina del Norte durante seis meses. No tenían idea de que estaban a punto de convertirse en víctimas del trafico de personas y que sus vidas se descarrilarían para siempre.

Published on: April 13, 2023

Government, Immigration

Head Down

In 2018, Diego and Mario joined the U.S. government-sponsored H-2A visa program, leaving their families in their home country of Mexico to harvest blueberries at a farm in North Carolina for six months. They had no idea they were about to become victims of human trafficking and that their lives would be derailed forever. In the first episode of two-part special “Head Down,” we go deep into how a visa program that brings more than 300,000 foreign agricultural workers to the U.S. every year is plagued with abuse and wage theft. All of this while the U.S. government plans to expand it.

Published on: April 13, 2023