Special Coverage

This is a conversation with freshman congresswoman Yadira Caraveo of Colorado, whose first bill in Congress targeted the rising threat of xylazine, a powerful tranquilizer linked to the escalating epidemic of overdoses. Caraveo, who is a doctor, talks about the devastating impact of fentanyl and meth overdoses among young Latinos and farm workers in Colorado’s rural communities and her plans to address the addiction epidemic.

The Radio Bilingüe Latino Public Radio Network is proud to announce that today Harvard University conferred an honorary doctorate to Hugo Morales, co-founder and executive director of Radio Bilingüe, in recognition and celebration of his lifelong achievements. During the commencement ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard president, Lawrence Bacow said of Morales: “An impassioned pathbreaker in public media, creating new spaces for voices unheard, he awakens the airways to inform and inspire, making service to others his station in life.”