Mis Pensamientos with Alfredo Santos

MIS PENSAMIENTOS with ALFREDO SANTOS 07.14.19 “EL PRESIDENTE NO ES PENDEJO”

Using Circus Theory to Understand Trump El Presidente No es Pendejo Most of us know what a circus is. Some of us have been to a circus. The P.T. Barum and Bailey Circus was indeed a spectacle … [Read more...]

MIS PENSAMIENTOS with ALDREDO SANTOS 5.12.19

Bienvenidos otra vez a La Voz Newspaper! In this issue of La Voz you will find a number of interesting stories and news items. Let us call to your attention our feature story on El Cinco de Mayo. … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 2.14.25 PRINTS AT THE SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART

February 14, 2025 By wpengine

Prints by Chicano/a and Latino Artists at the San Antonio Museum of Art Educate and Delight Ricardo Romo, Ph.D Texas Latino art is in vogue this winter with shows in San Antonio, Houston, Corpus Christi, and the Dallas metroplex. I rely on my Latino art network to keep me informed on upcoming shows. I also […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 2.06.25 INSTRUCTIVE HISTORY: THE TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO

February 6, 2025 By wpengine

Latinos and Chicano/a Artists View History as Instructive to Understanding the Present The 48th annual Segundo de Febrero exhibit opened February 2, 2025 at the Centro Cultural Aztlan to commemorate the 177th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty ended the Mexican-American War 1846 to 1848 resulting in the “redistribution […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 2.06.25 LAS ACCIONES TIENEN CONSECUENCIAS

February 6, 2025 By wpengine

Burundaga de Zocotroco Jose M. Umpierre Decir que la vida es cambio no requiere gran sapiencia. Los cambios pueden ser a mejor o a peor y si madura coma perfila, la evidencia apunta al retroceso y deterioro, la vuelta a una condición de vida mas primitiva y la perdida de un sosiego que se ha […]

MIS PENSAMIENTOS with ALFREDO SANTOS 2.06.25

February 6, 2025 By wpengine

Bienvenidos a La Voz Newspaper. As you can see from our cover, we are wondering along with everybody else, who is going to pick the fruit and vegetables if farm workers decide not to show up for work because of the stepped up enforcement of immigration laws. Yes, one can argue that Pedro is not […]

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

LATINOPIA WORD XOCHITL JULISA BERMEJO “OUR LADY OF THE WATER GALLONS”

By Tia Tenopia on May 26, 2013

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is a poet and teacher from Asuza, California. She volunteered with No More Deaths, a humanitarian organization providing water bottles in the Arizona desert where immigrants crossing from Mexico often die of exposure. She read her poem, “Our Lady of the Water Gallons” at a Mental Cocido (Mental Stew) gathering of Latino authors […]

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

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