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Maria Hinojosa is an award-winning journalist who, for nearly 30 years, has reported on stories and communities in America that often go ignored by the mainstream media - from tales of hope in the South Bronx to the unseen victims of the war on terror and the first detention camps in the US. Best-selling author Julia Álvarez has called her “one of the most important, respected, and beloved cultural leaders in the Latinx community”. In Once I Was You, Maria shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago.

Un buen hijo se hace, no nace, ya que la primera educacion que el niño recibe es en el hogar, por medio de la imitacion. El aprendizaje de las buenas costumbres comienza desde la infancia, y estas resultan indispensables en la vida diaria. Tenemos que sembrar semillas de cortesia y amabilidad. Tener buenos modales consiste en tratar a los demas con respeto. Este audiolibro es un conjunto de cuentos para fomentar los buenos habitos en los hijos.

Two 17-year-old students were gunned down by a fellow 15-year-old student in the hallways of Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, New York. Although unusual at school, it was not an uncommon occurrence in East New York City, an area where families shared their community with drug dealers. The year was 1991. Producer Maria Hinojosa talks to kids who had no protection against the violence that surrounded them, other than toting guns.