Editorial: Healthy take on eating
Food, along with water, shelter and clothing constitute the basic necessities of life. Food provides the carbohydrates, fats, minerals, proteins, vitamins and water essential for the “growth, repair and maintenance of body tissues” and regulation of “vital processes.”Just as important as food itself is maintaining a balanced healthy relationship with food. Simply, we eat to […]
Area offers resources for eating disorder support
By Tere SiqueiraWith Eating Disorders Awareness Week set to begin Feb. 24, Dos Mundos is offering the following guide to resources for treating eating disorders, with an emphasis on organizations based in the Greater Kansas City area:*EDCare-Kansas City: EDCare offers outpatient and intensive programs for individuals struggling with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder and related […]
Premios Viva La Chicana: Susan “Sue” Moreno
Moreno to receive award for mentoring workBy Angie BaldelomarReceiving an award for her work as a mentor is an honor for Susan “Sue” Moreno.“I just feel so blessed and humbled, because it’s just so important to be recognized as being able to represent somebody that young people can aspire (to be like) and know that […]
Premios Viva La Chicana: Tania Yaritza Sosa
Sosa grateful for upcoming Viva La Chicana honorBy CharaRecently, Greater Kansas City resident Tania Yaritza Sosa received some emotionally moving news: She learned she would receive the Adelita Leadership Award in April at the Viva La Chicana Awards.“I first knew about it via an email,” Sosa recalled. “After reading it, immediate tears started rolling down […]
Letter to the editor: We must rise
By Manny Abarca IV Manny Abarca IV, legislator for Jackson County’s First District in Missouri sends a letter to empower the Latino community.“We, as a community of Latinos in the Kansas City metropolitan area, must defend each other, regardless of the generation, regardless of the language we speak, regardless of the status of our presence”, […]
Immigration news roundup: Feb. 5-11
By Angie Baldelomar To keep up with the constant stream of news regarding immigration from the Trump administration, Dos Mundos is starting a weekly roundup of the most relevant news during the week so that readers don’t miss anything important.Here were the news items that made headlines from Feb. 5 through Tuesday (Feb. 11):*Major refugee […]
Jorge Ramos : El ‘bully’ en el recreo
Le apodábamos “el Caballo” y le teníamos pavor. Durante varios años en mi escuela primaria y secundaria en la ciudad de México, él dominaba el patio durante el recreo. Nos sacaba a todos una cabeza, varios kilos y un año más.Era el “bully,” aunque nadie lo llamaba así y no existía la conciencia que ahora […]
Chiefs trounced by Eagles; threepeat quest ends
Before Sunday night (Feb. 9), no team had won three straight Super Bowls.And after Sunday night, no team had won three straight Super Bowls.Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes II and his fellow Chiefs, winners of Super Bowls LVII and LVIII, were pursuing a threepeat when they faced Philadelphia in Super Bowl LIX at the Caesars […]
Editorial: Is mental health truly important?
The new year was less than three hours old when Kansas City’s first murder victim of 2025 succumbed to gunshot wounds. The ill-fated 40-year-old leads this year’s 22 area homicides (as of Monday, Feb. 10). The oldest victim was a 75-year-old man killed in Raytown; the youngest was a six-year-old murdered at home in KC. […]
Dos Mundos: Volume 45 Issue 07 • 02/13/25 – 02/19/25
In this issue • Clara Reyes entra al Salón de la Fama de Mujeres Starr • Premios Viva La Chicana: Giselle Guardado, Marisa Moreno • Henry y Mary Estrada comparten su historia de amor en honor al Día de San Valentín