Our Year-End Donations to Latino Nonprofit Journalism

We are entering the final week of 2025 here at The Latino Newsletter, and we are busy with end-of-year activities. As a nonprofit newsroom, this is the moment when the work behind the work becomes most visible: closing out our books (all payroll and contractor invoices paid!), preparing for reporting in the year ahead, and reflecting on what it means to operate in the Latino media ecosystem with intention.

When I founded The Latino Newsletter in 2024, I promised we would always support the work of other nonprofit journalism outlets that share this space with us.

“Sustainability is possible when journalists think together, not in isolation or competition,” I wrote earlier this month as part of my NiemanLab Prediction for Journalism 2026.

Here at The Latino Newsletter, we do our best to live up to that mission, whether by sharing other outlets’ reporting in our What We’re Reading sections or uplifting the work of our peers across our social media channels.

We are also making modest donations to 14 nonprofit newsrooms, as well as one Latino media organization of which we are a founding member, and one institution dedicated to preserving and documenting Puerto Rico’s history.

I wish we could make four-figure donations to each nonprofit, but maybe one day we will. Still, we wanted to be intentional with our colleagues and peers that we will always support the reporting, infrastructure, and historical work that make independent Latino journalism possible.

Across all 16 organizations, we donated a total of $575 this year. (Our goal next year is to allot $2,000 for these types of donations.)

We know each and every one of these groups, and all their work is stellar. Running a nonprofit newsroom or organization requires constant decisions about resources, priorities, and sustainability, often behind the scenes and out of public view. We are proud of all these organizations, and we will continue our commitment in any way we can.

If you believe in independent Latino journalism and want to help sustain this work into 2026, we invite you to support The Latino Newsletter or any of the organizations listed above.

Your donation to The Latino Newsletter helps fund our reporting, our contributors, and the infrastructure that allows us to publish without paywalls. You can donate directly here.

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Rebuilding a Life in Guatemala: Our friends at El Tímpano flagged one of their latest stories for us, noting in an email that “this piece was months in the making, following the story of the return to Guatemala and the ongoing racism, discrimination, and exclusion Indigenous communities there face. It also places their experience within the broader story of the Maya diaspora in the U.S. The Bay Area is home to one of the largest Maya communities outside of Guatemala, with tens of thousands of Mayan immigrants resettling here in the 1980s to escape the genocide perpetrated against Indigenous Guatemalans during the country's civil war. Today, the region has developed a robust support infrastructure for Mayan immigrants.” 

Richard LA Case Dropped: From NBC News, “A federal judge dismissed an indictment against a TikTok creator who was shot by a federal agent in South Los Angeles.” This is the case of Carlitos Richard Parias, also known as “Richard LA.”

Trump and Venezuela: From the Guardian, “Donald Trump has claimed that US forces struck a ‘big facility’ in Venezuela last week — but the president did not specify what it was, or where, and the White House has not commented further.”

Julio Ricardo Varela is the founder of The Latino Newsletter. He is also its current part-time publisher and executive director. He edited and published this edition of The Latino Newsletter.

Consider donating to The Latino Newsletter. Any contribution, no matter how small, helps keep this newsletter free and accessible to all. ¡Gracias mil!