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POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SALOMON BALDENEGRO 04.17.25 FAKE VS. TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS

Fake vs. true righteousness… Let us preach righteousness, and practice it.  Brigham Young, American religious leader and politician. Last month, in this space, I commented on the hypocrisy … [Read more...]

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POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 02.16.20 “BRING BACK DECENCY!”

Bring back decency! All politics is local. Former House Speaker Tip O’Neill Restoring decency into our politics should be our community’s political priority for 2020. It is a moral imperative to rid … [Read more...]

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February 16, 2020 by Tia Tenopia

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SALOMON BALDENEGRO 01.19.20 “DRAFT BOARDS AND US…”

Draft boards, one of the least visible governmental bodies, have had an immense effect on the Mexican American community over the years. Draft boards oversee the registration and selection of persons … [Read more...]

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January 18, 2020 by Tia Tenopia

POLITICAL SALSA Y MAS WITH SAL BALDENEGRO 12.16.18 “THE WAR ON CARING…”

Donald Trump’s pathological lying knows no bounds. He even lies about Christmas. Since the summer he has been telling the bobblehead crowds at his rallies that he “will bring Christmas back.” And last … [Read more...]

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December 16, 2018 by Tia Tenopia

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 10.16.16 “DEMOCRACY BE DAMNED”

Democracy be damned—let’s hate! Conservatives and progressives claim to be polar opposites, but when it comes to hating on people whose political views and actions they don’t like, conservatives … [Read more...]

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October 16, 2016 by Tia Tenopia

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 9.21.14 “HISTORY MATTERS IN POLITICS”

HISTORY MATTERS IN POLITICS. Historian Rudy Acuña periodically reminds us that history matters. Indeed it does, and it behooves us to remember that during the political season. Our history teaches … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 1.30.26 ALEJANDRO DÍAZ AT RUIZ-HEALY ART GALLERY

January 29, 2026 By wpengine

Alejandro Díaz, A Latino Texan-New Yorker Exhibits at Ruiz-Healy Art Gallery. Texas native Alejandro Díaz developed an artistic practice over thirty-five years grounded in the bicultural and visual mix of South Texas and Mexico, with formative ties to Mexico City in the early 1990s. He is known for multi-media work: cardboard signs, neon, sculpture, furniture, […]

EL PROFE QUEZADA NOS DICE 1.30.26 NO PORK ON FRIDAYS – A DUAL CULTURAL LEGACY

January 29, 2026 By wpengine

The Rio Grande has long been more than a river dividing nations; it has been a meeting place of cultures, faiths, and hidden legacies.  Along its banks, towns in northern Mexico and South Texas became home to families who carried with them traditions that were not always spoken aloud.  Among these were crypto-Jews—descendants of Sephardic […]

EL PROFE QUEZADA NOS DICE 1.24.26 TWO MEXICAN FILM GREATS

January 24, 2026 By wpengine

During the 1940s and 1950s, two of the well-known Mexican actors of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema that I would see on the big screen at the Cine Azteca in the Barrio El Azteca were Arturo de Córdova and René Cardona.  The Cine Azteca was located at 311 Lincoln Street and was situated in the […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 1.24.26 CHICANO AND MEXICAN ART AT MCNAY MUSEUM

January 24, 2026 By wpengine

The McNay Art Museum, founded in 1954 as Texas’s first modern art museum, occupies Marion Koogler McNay’s Spanish Colonial Revival mansion in San Antonio. The museum is situated on 24 landscaped acres, featuring courtyards, a fish pond, and a beautiful nature garden. The museum’s collection of over 20,000 artworks showcases 19th- and 20th-century European and […]

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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

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.

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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 […]

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