The plans include phone trees, Know Your Rights flyers, role-playing ICE encounters and passports for children.

Hallacas, a popular Christmas dish among Venezuelans, are made of corn dough mixed with chicken or beef and rolled with peppers, capers, raisins and olives into banana leaves. Every family has its ...

Which Olympic athlete would be most fun to spend the holidays with? We asked some fellow Olympians to find out. If having an Olympian over for the holidays sounds like fun, grab some candy canes and ...

Maria Carolina Guilarte arrived in Chicago from Venezuela almost four years ago. Hallacas, a traditional dish, keeps her homeland alive in her heart. In a small living room on the Northwest Side ...

In 2015, the first year Héctor Arguinzones celebrated Christmas in the United States, he longed to share his mother’s hallacas with his wife, Niurka Meléndez, and their son, Samuel.

His mother, Crelia Lizarzabal, is next to him. They are wrapping the fillings of the Venezuelan delicacy hallacas with plantain leaves. The hallacas will be on the dinner table on Christmas Day, ...