• Home
    • Get the Podcasts
    • About
      • Contact Latinopia.com
      • Copyright Credits
      • Production Credits
      • Research Credits
      • Terms of Use
      • Teachers Guides
  • Art
    • LATINOPIA ART
    • INTERVIEWS
  • Film/TV
    • LATINOPIA CINEMA
    • LATINOPIA SHOWCASE
    • INTERVIEWS
    • FEATURES
  • Food
    • LATINOPIA FOOD
    • COOKING
    • RESTAURANTS
  • History
    • LATINOPIA EVENT
    • LATINOPIA HERO
    • TIMELINES
    • BIOGRAPHY
    • EVENT PROFILE
    • MOMENT IN TIME
    • DOCUMENTS
    • TEACHERS GUIDES
  • Lit
    • LATINOPIA WORD
    • LATINOPIA PLÁTICA
    • LATINOPIA BOOK REVIEW
    • PIONEER AMERICAN LATINA AUTHORS
    • INTERVIEWS
    • FEATURES
  • Music
    • LATINOPIA MUSIC
    • INTERVIEWS
    • FEATURES
  • Theater
    • LATINOPIA TEATRO
    • INTERVIEWS
  • Blogs
    • Angela’s Photo of the Week
    • Arnie & Porfi
    • Bravo Road with Don Felípe
    • Burundanga Boricua
    • Chicano Music Chronicles
    • Fierce Politics by Dr. Alvaro Huerta
    • Mirándolo Bien with Eduado Díaz
    • Political Salsa y Más
    • Mis Pensamientos
    • Latinopia Guest Blogs
    • Tales of Torres
    • Word Vision Harry Gamboa Jr.
    • Julio Medina Serendipity
    • Sara Ines Calderon
    • Ricky Luv Video
    • Tia Tenopia
  • Podcasts
    • Louie Perez’s Good Morning Aztlán
    • Mark Guerrero’s ELA Music Stories
    • Mark Guerrero’s Chicano Music Chronicles
      • Yoga Talk with Julie Carmen

latinopia.com

Latino arts, history and culture

  • Home
    • Get the Podcasts
    • About
      • Contact Latinopia.com
      • Copyright Credits
      • Production Credits
      • Research Credits
      • Terms of Use
      • Teachers Guides
  • Art
    • LATINOPIA ART
    • INTERVIEWS
  • Film/TV
    • LATINOPIA CINEMA
    • LATINOPIA SHOWCASE
    • INTERVIEWS
    • FEATURES
  • Food
    • LATINOPIA FOOD
    • COOKING
    • RESTAURANTS
  • History
    • LATINOPIA EVENT
    • LATINOPIA HERO
    • TIMELINES
    • BIOGRAPHY
    • EVENT PROFILE
    • MOMENT IN TIME
    • DOCUMENTS
    • TEACHERS GUIDES
  • Lit
    • LATINOPIA WORD
    • LATINOPIA PLÁTICA
    • LATINOPIA BOOK REVIEW
    • PIONEER AMERICAN LATINA AUTHORS
    • INTERVIEWS
    • FEATURES
  • Music
    • LATINOPIA MUSIC
    • INTERVIEWS
    • FEATURES
  • Theater
    • LATINOPIA TEATRO
    • INTERVIEWS
  • Blogs
    • Angela’s Photo of the Week
    • Arnie & Porfi
    • Bravo Road with Don Felípe
    • Burundanga Boricua
    • Chicano Music Chronicles
    • Fierce Politics by Dr. Alvaro Huerta
    • Mirándolo Bien with Eduado Díaz
    • Political Salsa y Más
    • Mis Pensamientos
    • Latinopia Guest Blogs
    • Tales of Torres
    • Word Vision Harry Gamboa Jr.
    • Julio Medina Serendipity
    • Sara Ines Calderon
    • Ricky Luv Video
    • Tia Tenopia
  • Podcasts
    • Louie Perez’s Good Morning Aztlán
    • Mark Guerrero’s ELA Music Stories
    • Mark Guerrero’s Chicano Music Chronicles
      • Yoga Talk with Julie Carmen
You are here: Home / Blogs / BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 04.26.25

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 04.26.25

April 26, 2025 by wpengine

La Jungla de Pamela y Josué

En la altura de la Cordillera Central de Puerto Rico

por las crestas de Orocovis, en el barrio Pellejas

Está la finca la Jungla que regentan Pamela y Josue.

 

Una pareja de agricultores empecinados en la más difícil de las tareas:

hacer producir cinco cuerdas del terreno más escalpado.

Allí,  por casi una década cultivan

Calabazas

Pepinillos

Tomates

Pimientos

Cilantrillo

Arugula

Remolacha

Cebolla

Pimientos

Aguacates

Sandias

Papaya

Calabacín

Lechuga

 

Se conocieron en la UPI

Cuando cursaban estudios universitarios

coincidiendo en protestas ambientales,

iniando una amistad que floreció con el amor a la tierra.

Ella estudió agronomía y el horticultura.

Ambos deciden acudir al llamado irrenunciable del cultivo

y la fascinación de ver el esfuerzo desbordarse en frutos y flores.

 

La Jungla es muchas cosas

Un pedacito cerca de cielo

Un hogar

Un nicho

Una finca auto sustentable  que responde a principios de:

Cultivar de forma orgánica sin pesticidas ni fertilizantes sintéticos.

Apoyar a los agricultores locales

Promover el consumo de productos de temporada.

Fomentar la diversidad en el cultivo de alimentos.

Implementar prácticas para reducir el desperdicio y aprovechar las sobras.

 

La Jungla se también un hogar

Una empresa autónoma

Una exaltacion del trabajo duro

El que dobla el lomo y ensucia las manos;

de sol a sol; dia tras dia.

 

El techo de nubes en cielos cambiantes

El verdor salvaje del mogote

Las laderas labradas

con inmenso trabajo y esmero

son testimonio elocuente de valor y entereza.

Una consagración llena de sacrificios,

sujeta a inmensos riesgos.

Con el imperioso requerido

de la dedicación constante.

 

El aura apacible de Pamela y Josue domina la Jungla.

No dudo que el sociego que inspiran

encuentra motivos en la extenuación ante la interminable tarea.

También surge de la congruencia de hacer valer principios.

De la satisfacción y el orgullo de convertir sueños en realidades.

De verlos crecer en:

Calabazas

Pepinillos

Tomates

Pimientos

Cilantrillo

Arugula

Remolacha

Cebolla

Pimientos

Aguacates

Sandias

Papaya

Calabacín

Lechuga

_____________________________________________________

Copyright por José M. Umpierre. Los fotos cortesia del autor.

Filed Under: Blogs, Burundanga Boricua Tagged With: Burundanga Boricua del Zocotroco, José M. Umpierre

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SALOMON BALDENEGRO 9.04.26 WOMEN AND LABOR

September 4, 2026 By wpengine

  Women and Labor… Labor Day is nigh upon us, and there’ll be a plethora of postings exalting workers, unions, etc. I thought I’d get a leg up and comment on a topic that deserves our attention and respect – women in the labor movement, historically and contemporaneously. [Note: in different contexts, I’ve written about […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 9.04.26 MY FOTO SEPTIEMBRE

September 4, 2026 By wpengine

The Centro Cultural Aztlán’s upcoming photographic exhibition, which opens on Thursday evening, September 3, 2026, in conjunction with San Antonio’s FotoSeptiembre, offers a powerful celebration of Mexican American life as lived, remembered, and continually reimagined. Curated by historian and documentary photographer Ricardo Romo, this year’s FotoSeptiembre at the Centro features the works of thirteen photographers, […]

EL PROFE QUEZADA NOS DICE 9.04.26 ” 9/11 LEST WE FORGET”

September 4, 2026 By wpengine

Lest we Forget.  On the solemnity of this special day–September 11, 2001, twenty-five years ago, this coming September 11, 2026, we cried, America cried, a day that will never be forgotten as we pause to remember those innocent victims, with sorrow in our hearts and a pain that will never be erased, who were incinerated […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 8.28.26 EL OTRO CAMINO: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF CÉSAR MARTÍNEZ

August 28, 2026 By wpengine

A new exhibition, “El Otro Camino: An Intimate Portrait of César A. Martínez,” opened in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, August 22, 2026. It is the first large-scale comprehensive exhibition by the acclaimed San Antonio Chicano artist in the El Paso Southwest region. Guest-curated by Diana Molina and organized by the El Paso Mexican American […]

More Posts from this Category

New On Latinopia

LATINOPIA ART GASPAR ENRÍQUEZ 1 “RETROSPECTIVE”

By Tia Tenopia on May 4, 2014

Gaspar Enríquez is a renowned Chicano artist whose airbrush portraits of barrio youth are haunting and memorable. Drawing from museums and collectors around the United States, in April 2014, the El Paso Museum of Art mounted a retrospective of Gaspar’s art titled Metaphors of the Barrio. Latinopia visited the exhibit and asked Gaspar what inspires […]

Category: Art, LATINOPIA ART

LATINOPIA FOOD “JALAPEÑO SODA BREAD” RECIPE

By Tia Tenopia on March 14, 2011

Jalapeño Irish Soda Bread The sweetness of traditional Irish soda bread ingredients—raisins, buttermilk, some sugar—are richly complimented by jalapeño heat. Here’s a soda bread recipe from Ireland brought to the USA from Galway by Mary Patricia Reilly Murray and later transformed  with her blessing by her daughter, Bobbi Murray, who added jalapeño chile.  A real […]

Category: Cooking, Food, LATINOPIA FOOD

LATINOPIA WORD JOSÉ MONTOYA “PACHUCO PORTFOLIO”

By Tia Tenopia on June 12, 2011

José Montoya is a renowned poet, artist and activist who has been in the forefront of the Chicano art movement. One of his most celebrated poems is titled “Pachuco Portfolio” which pays homage to the iconic and enduring character of El Pachuco, the 1940s  Mexican American youth who dressed in the stylish Zoot Suit.

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

© 2026 latinopia.com · Pin It - Genesis - WordPress · Admin