TALES OF TORRES 2.02.17 “HOW TO SAY NO TO DONALD TRUMP”

How to say “No” to Donald Trump Cornel West has described Naomi Klein as “One of the few revolutionary public intellectuals of great integrity and vision.” And he is correct. Klein is also a … [Read more...]

LATINOPIA BOOK REVIEW “LATINO AMERICANS”

LATINO AMERICANS -The Companion Book to the PBS documentary Series Written by Ray Suarez, Celebra Press, 2013. Reviewed by Denis Bixler-Marquez _____________________________________ Behind … [Read more...]

TALES OF TORRES 8.20.17 “LOSS OF MORAL AUTHORITY”

August 20, 2017 By Tia Tenopia

Trump Has Lost Any Semblance of Moral Authority By Luís Torres It’s time to call for Donald Trump to resign the presidency. Given the maniacally egotistic nihilistic that he is, it is of course highly unlikely that he will resign. But it would be for the good of the country that he did. In recent […]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SALOMON BALDENEGRO 8.20.17 “WHO WOULD JESUS STAND WITH?”

August 20, 2017 By Tia Tenopia

Whom would Jesus stand with? One would think that denouncing racism and murder in the service of white supremacy and denouncing those who defend such things would be a super easy call for truly religious folks. But recent events illustrate the disconnect between what white evangelicals say and purport to believe and what they actually […]

ARNIE AND PORFI with SERGIO HERNÁNDEZ 8.20.17 “RAZA SÍ, NAZI NO”

August 20, 2017 By Tia Tenopia

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 08.13.17 “NEGACIÓN”

August 13, 2017 By Tia Tenopia

De vez en cuando hay que hacer una pausa ,contemplarse a sí mismo sin la fruición cotidiana, examinar el pasado rubro por rubro, etapa por etapa, baldosa por baldosa y no llorarse las mentiras sino cantarse las verdades… Mario Benedetti Mi pensamiento es producto de una formación en las ciencias sociales, y aunque atrás […]

LATINOPIA MUSIC ANGELA ROA “TOCO DESAFINADO”

By Tia Tenopia on June 22, 2014

Angela Roa is a Chilean singer and lyricist residing in Los Angeles, California. Her songs are about the Latino experience in the United States and in Latin America. Here she performs an original song, “Toco Desafinado” (Out of Tune). She is accompanied by Fernando Losada, Rich Silva and Thiago Winterstein..

Category: LATINOPIA MUSIC, Music

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

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TALES OF TORRES 2.02.17 “HOW TO SAY NO TO DONALD TRUMP”

LATINOPIA BOOK REVIEW “LATINO AMERICANS”