ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara — distinct from the University of Guadalajara — also known as Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, ITESO, is a Jesuit university in the Western Mexican state of Jalisco, located in the municipality of Tlaquepaque in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area.
Sylvia Rivera was an American gay liberation and transgender rights activist who was also a noted community worker in New York. Rivera, who identified as a drag queen for most of her life and later as a transgender person, participated in demonstrations with the Gay Liberation Front.
Andrés Roemer Slomianski is a Mexican writer, former ambassador to UNESCO, and fugitive.
The Brazilian automotive industry is coordinated by the Associação Nacional dos Fabricantes de Veículos Automotores (Anfavea), created in 1956, which includes automakers with factories in Brazil. Anfavea is part of the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles (OICA), based in Paris. In 2021, the annual production exceeded 2.2 million vehicles, the 8th largest in the world.
Pedro Julio Serrano is a gay and HIV+ human rights activist and president of Puerto Rico Para Todes, a non-profit LGBTQ+ and social justice advocacy organization founded in 2003. He is a former advisor to former New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark Viverito and former San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz. He served, for more than three years, as executive director of Programa Vida and Clínica Transalud of the Municipality of San Juan. He now works as Director of Public Affairs at Waves Ahead.
Jorge Gestoso is a Uruguayan journalist who was born in Montevideo.
The Fundación Proacceso is a non-profit organization that focuses on bridging the digital divide by providing educational tools to low-income areas in Mexico. The Fundación Proacceso’s main project is the RIA, or Learning and Innovation Network, a group of digital inclusion centers that offer access to computers, the Internet, and continuing education programs.
Paloma Navares is an interdisciplinary Spanish artist who combines sculpture, photography, video and audio in her installations. Recurring themes in her work are the feminine condition, the historical representation of women through art, the critical analysis of the canon, madness, beauty and aging.
Mirgor is an Argentinean company that produces electronics, mobile and automotive components, and exports, distributes and commercializes agricultural products. It has its administrative headquarters in the city of Buenos Aires, and industrial sites in Río Grande, Garín and Baradero, as well as its own agricultural-livestock exploitation field in Bolívar.
Olga Mercedes Álava Vargas is an Ecuadorian model, social, lifestyle entrepreneur, environmentalist and beauty queen. She became the first delegate from Ecuador to win the Miss Earth pageant.
Hyperloop UPV is a team of students from the Universitat Politècnica de València with the aim of designing Hyperloop, a proposed future means of transport. With renewable energies, the vehicle will levitate inside a vacuum tube, being able to reach 1,200 km/h (750 mph).
The following is a timeline of Latino civil rights in the United States.
La Casa Ida was a medialab and cultural center active between 2006 and 2014 in Lima, Peru, focused on research, production and education in technological artistic practices. It was founded by a group of contemporary artists led by architect, electronic arts researcher and professor Alvaro Pastor.
Carlos Torres-Machado is an Ecuadorian visual artist. He is the current President of ArteLatAm, an arts organization dedicated to the support of Latin American visual artists. It has its headquarters in Queens, New York.
Zoe Jeanneau Canto, also known as La Zowi, is a Spanish Latin trap musician.
María Soledad Saieh Guzmán was a Chilean businesswoman, film producer, and cultural manager.
Sonia Roca is the Chancellor and Founder of Universidad Del Pacífico - Ecuador.
Fiestapatria is a 2007 Chilean-Peruvian drama film written, directed and produced by Luis R. Vera. Starring Adela Secall. The film competed for the Colon de Oro at the 2007 Havana New Latin American Film Festival.
The Erection of Toribio Bardelli is a 2023 black tragicomedy film written and directed by Adrián Saba. An international co-production between Peru and Brazil, the film stars Gustavo Bueno, with Gisela Ponce de León, Rodrigo Sánchez Patiño, Michele Abascal and Lucélia Santos. The film was selected as the Peruvian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
