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LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG ALVARO HUERTA “UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS CAN’T GET A BREAK”

Undocumented immigrants in this country can't get a break. While Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump fantasizes about creating a deportation force and building a huge border wall, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG Tagged With: Alvaro Huerta writings, immigration legislation, immigration reform, undocumented workers

November 29, 2015 by Tia Tenopia

THINKING LATINA with SARA INÉS CALDERÓN 2.10.13

LATINOS, IMMIGRANTS LEAN LEFT: THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR THE GOP? A report from the Pew Research Center shows that, without a doubt, immigrants and their children (Latino immigrants in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Sara Ines Calderon Tagged With: immigration reform, Latino electoral power, Latino vote, Sara Ines Calderon, the GOP responds to Latinos

February 10, 2013 by

THINKING LATINA with SARA INÉS CALDERÓN 12.17.12

WILL GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION EDGE OUT IMMIGRATION REFORM?  The Newtown gun massacre is, without a doubt a tremendous tragedy, and consequently politicians are already calling for tighter gun … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Sara Ines Calderon Tagged With: 2013 Immigration legislation, Connecticut shooting, immigration reform, Sara Ines Calderon

December 17, 2012 by

BRAVO ROAD with DON FELÍPE 12.08.13 “AMERICAN BY MANIFEST DESTINY”

AMERICANS BY MANIFEST DESTINY AND FIAT, NOT IMMIGRATION. The old saw in American mythology is that we’re all immigrants, Not true! Not true by any stretch of the imagination. In particular, Native … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Bravo Road with Don Felípe Tagged With: Bravo Road with Don Felipe, Dr. Felipe de Ortego y Gasca, immigration reform

December 8, 2013 by Breht Burri

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...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Sara Ines Calderon Tagged With: 2013 immgiration bill, immgiration legislation, immigration reform, Sara Ines Calderon, the Latino vote

April 15, 2013 by

THINKING LATINA with SARA INÉS CALDERÓN 4.07.13

THE AP'S DITCHING OF "ILLEGAL" SIGNALS A LARGER CHANGE FOR LATINOS. Last week the Associated Press finally decided to eliminate the word “illegal” from its style guide to describe immigrants (this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Sara Ines Calderon Tagged With: AP changing "illegal" term, Immigration debate, immigration reform

April 6, 2013 by

THINKING LATINA with SARA INÉS CALDERÓN 1.30.13

3 THINGS TO CONSIDER ABOUT OBAMA & THE SENATE'S PROPOSED IMMIGRATION REFORM.  President Barack Obama made a big show of outlining the principles of immigration reform Tuesday (you can read … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Sara Ines Calderon Tagged With: immigration reform, Immigration reform in America, Obama's Speech on Immigration Reform

January 30, 2013 by Tia Tenopia

THINKING LATINA with SARA INÉS CALDERÓN 1.21.13

DEMOCRATS, OBAMA ARE LYING ABOUT IMMIGRATION REFORM Immigration reform is not going to happen in 2013, and if it does happen in 2014 before mid-term elections where the issue is being used as a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Sara Ines Calderon Tagged With: 2013 Immigration legislation, immigration reform, Sara Ines Calderon

January 21, 2013 by

FIERCE POLITICS WITH ALVARO HUERTA 03.26.26 AN ODE TO A CHICANO LEGEND

March 25, 2026 By wpengine

March 25, 2026 (revised from Nov. 9, 2021, version) By Dr. Álvaro Huerta  “Rudy (RIP): An Ode to a Chicano Legend, Dr. Rodolfo F. Acuña” I first met the late, great Dr. Rodolfo F. “Rudy” Acuña (1932–2026) in Fall of 1986, as a UCLA undergraduate student from East Los Angeles. It wasn’t in person, however. I met […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 03.26.26 MARK MENJIVAR’S MURMURATIONS

March 25, 2026 By wpengine

Mark Menjívar’s Murmurations, a new, expansive, mid-career survey exhibition highlighting 16 multifaceted projects from his past 20 years, is currently open at the Contemporary at Blue Star in San Antonio. His work includes socially engaged art, photography, sound studies, capital punishment, migration, and ornithology. His creative artistry also integrates social practice and participatory collaborative projects to […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 03.20.26 MAJOR EXHIBITION OF CUBAN MODERNIST WILFREDO LAM

March 20, 2026 By wpengine

“Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream,” the first major U.S. retrospective of the famed Cuban artist, opened in November 2025 and runs through April 11, 2026 at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. Known for his large-scale paintings, which reference modernistaesthetics and Afro-Cuban imagery, Lam explored themes of social injustice […]

EL PROFE QUEZADA NOS DICE 03.20.26 THE COVERING OF MIRRORS

March 20, 2026 By wpengine

During a recent thunderstorm, I was reminiscing about my days growing up in my beloved Barrio El Azteca in Laredo, Texas when my beloved Mamá had the habit of covering all the mirrors.  Her custom shows up in Mexican, Indigenous, and broader folk beliefs.  Mirrors were believed to attract lightning and during times of fear […]

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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 […]

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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.

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LATINOPIA ART SONIA ROMERO 2

By Tia Tenopia on October 20, 2013

Sonia Romero is a graphic artist,muralist and print maker. In this second profile on Sonia and her work, Latinopia explores Sonia’s public murals, in particular the “Urban Oasis” mural at the MacArthur Park Metro Station in Los Angeles, California.

Category: Art, LATINOPIA ART

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