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LATINOPIA GUETS BLOG DR. RODOLFO TORRES 03.06.26 “IF GALARZA WERE ALIVE TODAY”

  Dr. Ernesto Galarza was one of the most significant labor organizer, diplomat, social activist, labor organizer, educator and author of the Twentieth Century. If he were alive today, he … [Read more...]

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March 6, 2026 by wpengine

GUEST BLOG ROGELIO SÁENZ 02.14.26 FASCISM, THE NEW U.S. REALITY

Fascism, the New U.S. Reality by Rogelio Sáenz Many Americans use the term fascism to describe nations headed by rogue dictators. Never here! But, one year into Donald Trump’s second term as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG Tagged With: Dr. Rogelio Sáenz, Latinopia Guest Blog, Trump and Fascism

February 14, 2026 by wpengine

LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG JORGE “COQUI” RODRIGUEZ “THE KIND ACT OF SOLIDARITY”

The Kind Act of Solidarity By Jorge “Coqui”H Rodriguez   Renee Nicole Good was the act of kindness all Americans need to follow   Renee Nicole Good was a brave soul who’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG Tagged With: Jorge Coqui Rodriguez, Latinopia Guest Blog, Renee Good

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GUEST BLOG JESÚS TREVIÑO 1.08.26 VENEZUELA – THE PRETEXT BEHIND THE REAL MOTIVE

For Americans focused on the latest football or basketball game scores, the latest with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce and the pressing return and exchange of Christmas gifts, the ouster of Venezuelan … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG Tagged With: Jesús Salvador Treviño, Latinopia Guest Blog, Trump invades Venzuela and captures Maduro

January 8, 2026 by wpengine

LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG 1.01.26 XOCHITL ON FIGHTING BACK IN THE NEW YEAR

  Happy New Year! We dogs figure time in terms of regular meals, so every meal is a "Happy New Meal" to me. But I’ll tell you that the park visits and hamburger meals this past year were … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG Tagged With: Kilmar Abrego Harcia, Latinopia Guest Blog, Xochitl La Pestana

January 1, 2026 by wpengine

BOBBI MURRAY’S REPORT FROM THE TRENCHES 12.05.25 CARWASHEROS PRESENTE!

On the day before Thanksgiving, California labor leader David Huerta was in a downtown Los Angeles federal courtroom pleading not guilty to a misdemeanor charge of obstruction, resistance, or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG Tagged With: Bobbi Murray, Carwasheros, David Huerta, Latinopia Guest Blog

December 5, 2025 by wpengine

LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG 8.29.25 BOBBI MURRAY ON STEPHEN MILLER MAGA-IN-CHIEF

If you look at immigration policy these days—and who can’t, what with the attendant virus of raids and racism—you must take a painful look at the present architect, one Mr. Stephen Miller. He … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG Tagged With: Bobbi Murray, Latinopia Guest Blog, Stephen Miller

August 29, 2025 by wpengine

BOBBI MURRAY REPORT FROM THE TRENCHES 8.08.25 MORE LEGAL VICTORIES…BUT MORE ICE.

Report from the Bench Trenches It was a win for the rule of law when Federal agents (we’re looking at you, ICE) got legally blocked yet again from picking up raza (and/or others) in … [Read more...]

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August 8, 2025 by wpengine

LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG 7.25.25 BOBBI MURRAY THE JUDICIAL BENCH STRIKES BACK

The Judicial Bench Strikes Back It’s not news that ICE troops have been very busy chasing down and sweeping up brown-skinned people at Home Depot, restaurants and carwashes. Pause for a minute … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG Tagged With: Abrego Garcia, Bobbi Murray, Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, Latinopia Guest Blog, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg

July 25, 2025 by wpengine

LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG 7.25.25 GILBERTO QUEZADA ON LA CANÍCULA

While growing up in my beloved Barrio El Azteca in Laredo, Texas, during the 1940s and 1950s, I would often hear my paternal grandparents mention the term, "La Canícula," during the hot summer … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG Tagged With: Gilberto Quezada, Latinopia Guest Blog

July 25, 2025 by JT

LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG 7.10.25 ANGELA VALENZUELA – ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ: A MONUMENT TO CRUELTY

Alligator Alcatraz: A Monument to Cruelty in the Heart of the Everglades by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. It's time to resurrect the term necropolitics, meaning the politics of death wielded by … [Read more...]

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July 10, 2025 by wpengine

LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG 07.10.25 BOBBI MURRAY ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DAMAGE OF TRUMP’S ICE RAIDS

Are You Out of Your Mind? Big doings in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles this past week--Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) showed up with military trucks and … [Read more...]

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July 10, 2025 by wpengine

LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG BOBBI MURRAY 06.27.25 – THE ABCs OF ICE

The ABCs of ICE Pasadena is a city just a few miles from Los Angeles and around the corner from Altadena. That’s where a massive fire pretty much leveled the town of 45,000 in an unincorporated … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG Tagged With: Bobbi Murray, ICE raids, Latinopia Guest Blog

June 27, 2025 by JT

LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG JORGE RODRIGUEZ ABDICATING MORAL RESPONSIBILITY 6.20.25

The following letter was written by Jorge H. Rodríguez to the Los Angeles Times and is reposted on Latinopia with the permission of Mr. Rodríguez. Dear Editors. I have been a long time LA Times … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG Tagged With: Jorge H. Rodriguez, Latinopia Guest Blog

June 20, 2025 by wpengine

LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG BOBBI MURRAY 06.07.25 DUE PROCESS TAKES A HOLIDAY

Here’s one for you—a 4th grader from Torrance Elementary School, 9 years old, in Southern California is on track to be deported along with his father. Martir Garcia Lara accompanied his dad, Martir … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG Tagged With: Bobbi Murray, ICE attacks immigrants, Latinopia Guest Blog

June 7, 2025 by wpengine

LATINOPIA HERO LALO ALCARAZ WINS BIG!

The indefatigable cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz just bagged himself yet another honor on May 22, a pretty big one. He’s already a two-time finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartoons, took home … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG Tagged With: Bobbi Murray, Latinopia Guest Blog

May 31, 2025 by wpengine

BOBBI MURRAY BLOG A MEMORIAL DAY WITHOUT SUPPORT FOR VETERANS

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...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG, Literature Tagged With: Bobbi Murray, Latinopia Guest Blog, Memorial Day

May 23, 2025 by wpengine

LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG DR. MARIO D. LONGORIA REMEMBRANCE OF FALLEN SOLDIERS

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...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG, Literature Tagged With: Dr. Mario Longoria, Latinopia Guest Blog

May 23, 2025 by wpengine

LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG ANGELA VALENZUELA 5.16.25

"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...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG, Literature Tagged With: Dr. Angela Valenzuela, Latinopia Guest Blog

May 15, 2025 by wpengine

LATINOPIA BLOG DR. GILBERTO QUEZADA – CELEBRATINIG LAREDO’S 270TH ANNIVERSARY

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...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG, Literature Tagged With: Gilberto Quezada, Latinopia Guest Blog

May 15, 2025 by wpengine

LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG 04.26.25 WINS IN THE TRENCHES!

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...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG, Literature Tagged With: Bobbi Murray, Latinopia Guest Blog

April 26, 2025 by wpengine

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POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 03.15.26 THE IRISH-CHICANO NEXUS

March 15, 2024 By wpengine

Irish-Chicano Nexus “I’m gonna wear the green sneakers I wore last year to a St.Pat’s party.” Mexican American young man, overheard in a grocery store checkout line. Waiting in line at the grocery store recently, I overheard two young (mid-, late-20s) Mexican Americans talking about their plans for St. Patrick’s Day. She said she was […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 3.15.26 MUJERES DE FUERZA WOMEN OF STRENGTH EXHIBIT AT CENTRO CULTURAL AZTLAN

March 15, 2026 By wpengine

  This year’s Centro Cultural Aztlan’s Women Exhibit, Las Mujeres de Aztlan: Mujeres de Fuerza–Women of Strength, celebrated International Women’s Month. Curated by artist Terry Ybanez, the March 6, 2026 opening at the Centro in San Antonio, Texas drew a large crowd of Latina/o art lovers. The art show, which included 38 local artists, was beautiful, […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 3.15.26 (ENGLISH) A PRETEXT

March 15, 2026 By wpengine

Pretext Dreams have an important role in people’s lives. Sometimes as premonitions, sometimes cryptic and mysterious, capricious and occasionally the odd nightmare. I’m busy with those dreams which serve as inspiration, those which mark the way and feed motivation. Part of their charm is that they are at times remote, difficult, sometimes impossible. Those Quixotesque […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 03.06.26 CRUZ ORTIZ A LATINO ENTREPENEUR

March 6, 2026 By wpengine

Cruz Ortiz is a prominent San Antonio-based contemporary artist known for his Chicano-Pop style and his social activism through art. He blends personal South Texas experiences with pop culture, consumer imagery, and political themes. Ortiz’s work features bold screen prints, abstract portraits, dream-like landscapes, murals, videos, sculptures, and public installations using murals and puppet shows […]

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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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By Tia Tenopia on October 20, 2013

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