Chicana activist Dolores Huerta, actress of Dominican descent Zoe Saldaña, Brazilian actor Wagner Moura and Puerto Rican Rauw Alejandro are among the Latinos featured among Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, which also included Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
The list, in which more than 10% of the characters are Latinos, also includes Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Argentine diplomat Rafael Grossi, immigration activist Kica Matos and Peruvian indigenous woman Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari.
Brazilian researchers Luciano Moreira and Mariangela Hungria also stand out.
The magazine included Huerta, 96, in the ‘Pioneers’ category, recalling his fight for union rights for Latino workers in the United States and more recently the sexual abuse allegations that surfaced in March against the movement’s other leader, the late Cesar Chavez.
“Dolores’ impact, like that of many other activists, will continue to guide us, regardless of the harmful behavior of a single individual,” states the profile written by feminist Gloria Steinem.
One of the most prominent of the edition, in the group of ‘Titans’ is Zoe Saldaña, who is among the four personalities featured on its cover, as well as Wagner Moura, who this year was the first Brazilian in history to be nominated for an Oscar for best actor for the film ‘The Secret Agent’.
Moura shares the ‘Icons’ category with urban singer Rauw Alejandro and Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center in the United States, where she has fought President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and the tactics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
While Benicio del Toro, nominated for an Oscar this year for Best Supporting Actor for the film ‘One Battle After Another’, is the only Hispanic in the ‘Entertainers’ classification.
At the political level, in the ‘Leaders’ ranking, the President of Mexico, Secretary Rubio and the Argentine Rossi, for his work as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), are included.
The ‘Innovators’ group includes indigenous activist Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari, for her work to protect the Amazon from pollution from extractive industries, and researcher Luciano Moreira, executive director of Wolbito do Brasil, where he has developed methods to combat dengue fever.
The list is completed in the group of “Pioneers” by Brazilian agronomist and scientist Mariangela Hungria, reported Agencia EFE, who has developed microbes that make it possible to grow food crops, such as soybeans, without the need for synthetic fertilizers.
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