Latino arts, history and culture
THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: DR. MARIO LONGORIA ON EDGEWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT'S VIETNAM VETS, BOBBI MURRAY'S LATEST REPORT FROM THE TRENCHES ON CUTBACKS AT THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION, BURUNDANGA BORICUA ON … [Read more...]
The week entering Memorial Day started with a little ruckus between the current Commander in Chief and the musician Bruce Springsteen. Seems like the commander got a kind of annoyed with Springsteen … [Read more...]
Fifty Years After the End of the Vietnam War: A Remembrance of the Fallen Warriors By Dr. Mario D. Longoria Upon returning home from the Vietnam War in 1970, I became aware of the high … [Read more...]
In 2012, in Puerto Rico there were 13,000 farms; in the recent agricultural census, between 8 and 10,000 farms are recorded; a substantial decrease in the figure reported for 2012. At present, the … [Read more...]
The title of the documentary, The Need to Grow by Rob Herring and Ryan Wirick, is suggestive. Its abstract character is enough to apply in a general and also in a particular way. The Need to Grow … [Read more...]
"Let Their Works Be Seen—At the City Gate and the Political Sphere" by Angela Valenzuela Please read my tribute for Mother's Day, based on a nuanced re-reading of Proverbs 31 and the writings of … [Read more...]
Peligro Inminente En 2012, en Puerto Rico habían 13 mil granjas; en el censo agrícola reciénte se registran entre 8 y 10 mil granjas; una disminución sustantiva de la cifra reportada para 2012. … [Read more...]
Celebrating Laredo's 270th Anniversary By Dr. Gilberto Quezada I would like to offer a few comments and a very interesting coincidence about the 270th anniversary of the establishment of … [Read more...]
Maya Blue Exhibit Incorporates the Artwork of Latino/a Artists A new exhibit, Maya Blue: Ancient Color, New Visions, at the San Antonio Museum of Art [SAMA], brings together for the first time … [Read more...]
Dr. David Romo is a borderlands historian with a specialty in the history of El Paso, Texas. one of the little known but important precursors to the Mexican Revolution of 1910 was the faith healer and … [Read more...]
This week’s stunt of the week from the Trump Administration’s regular array was his vow to reopen Alcatraz, the 19th century military fortress on a 22-acre island San Francisco Bay which was … [Read more...]
South Texas artist Santa Barraza has been painting for 50 years and seldom allows herself to slow down. She will have some artwork in the upcoming January 2026 exhibit, Frida: The Making of an … [Read more...]
Santa Barraza is a Chicana artist living in Texas whose works incorporate Pre-columbian indigenous imagery in post-modern ways. One of her works titled "Nepantla," explores the world of mestizaje, the … [Read more...]
SANTA BARRAZA - TEXAS ARTIST IN HER OWN WORDS: I think that my encounter with the civil rights movement and the struggles of Mexican Americans, I first became aware of it when I was at the … [Read more...]
EL CINCO DE MAYO. Why celebrate an otherwise minor holiday in Mexico in the U.S. (or elsewhere for that matter)? Because El Cinco de Mayo is important to Chicanos and to freedom-loving Americans … [Read more...]
The 2025 Latino Film Festival sponsored by the Mexican American Cultural Education Foundation recognized filmmaker, television director, author and social activist Jesús Treviño with the Lifetime … [Read more...]
Denver Latino Artist Tony Ortega’s Artistic Journey Tony Ortega, an eminent Denver artist, has been painting for over forty years and teaching art for two decades. His creative work has been in … [Read more...]
CINCO DE MAYO by Francisco X. Alarcón ________________________________ First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not at all the official Mexican Independence Day, nor does it commemorate the … [Read more...]
Latinos are in danger of being under counted in the 2030 Census due to recent actions by the Trump administration. Dr. Rogelio Sáenz explains the impact of the citizenship question being added to the … [Read more...]
Latinopia has promised to update how the resistance to the Trump Administration is going and who’s firing back at the policies the Administration has been rolling out. (Not literally firing back … [Read more...]
In the wake of Trump's actions draconian actions ranging from the arbitrary firing of federal workers, the deportation of undocumented immigrants without due process and the levying of preposterous … [Read more...]
