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THINKING LATINA with SARA INÉS CALDERÓN 4.15.13

THE IMMIGRATION BILL THAT COULDN’T. The much-hyped immigration reform bill that millions of undocumented immigrants, as well as their families and allies, have been waiting for is expected to be … [Read more...]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 10.18.20 “DIMES Y DIRETES (RUMORS) “

October 18, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

Dimes y Diretes Me esmande otra vez; poco me ha enseñado la edad avanzada de impetuosidades y lejos estoy de haber aprendido suficiente. El día después que apunto la ausencia del plebiscito en la discusión preeleccionaria, (estratégicamente omitido en el periódico El Nuevo Día en su resonada y discutible encuesta) aparece contundente evidencia de mi […]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 10.10.20 “UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS MORE PATRIOTIC THAN TRUMP…”

October 9, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

Undocumented workers more patriotic than Trump… If we had a microphone that could hover over the United States during tax time, the collective mumbling and grumbling—not to mention the ear-reddening panoply of curse words—that the mic would pick up would be deafening. Fact is, except for one group (discussed below), most folks do not like […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 10.03.20 “AQUI NADA PASA, PERO…”

October 9, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

Aquí no pasa nada, pero tampoco hay momento de aburrimiento Se avecinan las elecciones y su inmediatez ha acelerado el paso de trote a galope, con todos avivando la urgencia decisiva y la singularidad del momento, cada cual insistiendo en la necesidad de cambios. Antídoto a la duda acuciante de que todo se quede igual, […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 10.10.20 “LATINO FILMS ARE GOOD, BUT SO FEW”

October 9, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

Movies By Latinos Are Good, But So Few By Dr. Ricardo Romo During Hispanic Heritage Month, [September 15-October 12] Latinos celebrate their culture and acknowledge their rich history. Many of us have in the past attended events with music and dance, and all of us are accustomed to hearing speeches, poetry, and songs inspired by […]

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 EVENT 1966 UFW PEREGRINACIÓN (PILGRIMAGE) MARCH

By Tia Tenopia on March 19, 2013

The effort to organize farm workers under a union contract has been a long and difficult struggle. In 1965, César Chávez and Dolores Huerta created what would become the United Farm Workers Union. From the onset they faced many obstacles, not the least of which was how to get dozens of California grape growers to […]

Category: History, LATINOPIA EVENT

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