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...]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MAS with SALOMON BALDENEGRO 3.17.19 “SANCTUARY CITIES – A CIVIL INITIATIVE…”

March 17, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Sanctuary cities-a civil initiative… A local activist coalition, Tucson Families Free and Together, has launched a petition drive to change our city’s status from being an “immigrant-welcoming” city to a “sanctuary city.” The difference is material. The “immigrant-welcoming” designation is merely an expression of support for Tucson’s immigrant community, an effort to “facilitate a community-wide […]

MIS PENSAMIENTOS with ALFREDO SANTOS 3.17.19

March 17, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Bienvenidos otra vez a La Voz Newspaper. Esperamos que todos se encuentran en buen salud porque como quien dice, your health is your wealth. In this issue of La Voz we wish to call to your attention the most recent accomplishment of Dr. Emilio Zamora: being named the President of the Texas State Historical Association. […]

MARK GUERRERO’S CHICANO MUSIC CHRONICLES – GERI “GEREE” GONZALEZ

February 24, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 2.24.19 “INCONSTITUCIONAL ONO INCONSTITUCIONAL”

February 24, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Inconstitucional o no inconstitucional Ese es el dilema. El territorio de Puerto Rico se rige por un modelo de gobierno republicano, compuesto de las ramas ejecutiva, legislativa y judicial, adscritas al Congreso Norteamericano. Visto que en el territorio aplican las leyes federales, existe un Tribunal Federal en San Juan, con una Corte de Apelaciones […]

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

LATINOPIA TEATRO “ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY2”

By Tia Tenopia on December 8, 2014

“Enrique’s Journey” is a Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative by Sonia Nazario about the harrowing experiences of a seventeen-year-old Honduran boy who sets out alone to travel to the United States to find his mother whom he hasn’t seen in more than a dozen years. The riveting true story was adapted for the stage by Anthony J. […]

Category: LATINOPIA TEATRO, Theater