Puerto Rico debt crisis

LATINOPIA EVENT 2015 PUERTO RICO DEBT CRISIS

PUERTO RICO'S DEBT CRISIS On June 28, 2015 the Governor of Puerto Rico, Alejandro García Padilla, announced that the $72 billion debt owed by the Commonwealth to its creditors was unpayable. … [Read more...]

ARNIE AND PORFI with SERGIO HERNANDEZ 5.25.19 “MEMORIAL DAY 2019”

May 27, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

POLITICAL SALSA Y MAS with SAL BALDENEGRO 5.19.19 “ARE PICKETS AND MARCHES EFFECTIVE?”

May 18, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Are pickets, marches, etc., effective? Were the demonstrations, pickets, marches, etc., of the Chicano Movement effective? During an interview (by a college student for a term paper) I was asked that question recently. I’m a veteran of the dynamic and highly productive Chicano Movement, and like many of you, I’m sure, over the years I […]

MARK GUERRERO’S CHICANO MUSIC CHRONICLES – GEORGE OCHOA

May 4, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

This month Mark Guerrero visits with George Ochoa, who was a member of The Slauson Brothers band and Cannibal and the Headhunters in the ’60s and Olde Tyme Religion and Yaqui in the ’70s. Although not as well known as many Chicano band lead singers, George was hugely influential in a lifetime of music. Check […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 5.04.19 “LA JUNTA – INCONSTITUCIONAL?”

May 4, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Me enseña la experiencia que tanto tiene la vida de paradoja y congruencia, como de armonía y disonancia. Se suman a mis tribulaciones el acontecer reciente en torno al presente y el futuro de este terruño. Es bien sabido que la irresponsabilidad fiscal de los gobiernos del país nos llevaron a la bancarrota. La incapacidad […]

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 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

LATINOPIA MUSIC RUBÉN MARTÍNEZ “IN THE SHADOWS OF BLACK MESA”

By Tia Tenopia on July 28, 2013

Rubén Martínez is a journalist, author and musician whose recent book “Desert America” chronicles, among other things, the high rate of heroin addiction among Hispanos in New Mexico’s rural communities. While living in Velarde, New Mexico Rubén was able to witness the destructive force of addiction in the lives of his two neighbors, José and […]

Category: LATINOPIA MUSIC, Music