The Latino community’s long-documented health resilience is breaking down.A woman participates in a protest in Houston on July 8 after a federal agent shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.Raquel Natalicchio / Houston Chronicle via Getty Images fileAug. 30, 2026, 10:00 AM EDTBy Vincent Guilamo-RamosFor decades, Latino communities in the United States defied one of public health’s most durable predictions: that poverty, discrimination and social hardship inevitably produce worse health.Just a moment.We are getting your experience ready.