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...]

MARK GUERRERO’S CHICANO MUSIC CHRONICLES 9.26.20 – RECKLESS NIGHT ENSEMBLE

September 26, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

This month, Mark Guerrero interviews three members of The Reckless Night Ensemble about their album Pan-Americanos, which includes seven Lalo Guerrero songs, “Vamos a Bailar,” “16 Pounds,” “Los Angeles,” “Adan y Eva,” “Me Gusta El Cha Cha Cha” (on which Mark is the guest lead vocalist), “Barrio Viejo,” and “El Chicano.” The arrangements of all […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 9.19.20 “LATINO YOUTH FIRED UP TO VOTE”

September 19, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

Latino Youth Fired up To Vote In less than 50 days Latino voters will be making one of the most important political decisions of their lives. The November presidential elections matter greatly to those who are worried about ending the Covid-19 crisis, managing their children’s education, and returning to full time work. Several new polls […]

UTOPIAS DESCIFRADAS DE JOSÉ MURATTI-TORO “EL DECESO DE BADER GINSBURG Y ROE VS. WADE”

September 19, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

El deceso de Bader Ginsburg, Roe v Wade y la re-elección de Donald Trump El deceso de Ruth Bader Ginsburg deja un enorme vacío en el Tribunal Supremo, amenaza una de las libertades de la mujer más preciadas, la de tomar decisiones respecto a su propio cuerpo, y crea un escenario adicional de conflicto y […]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 9.12.20 “TRUMP LIED, PEOPLE DIED…”

September 12, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

Trump lied, people died… That sign is ubiquitous at civil-rights marches and other rallies. But the sign is more than a clever slogan. It’s a four-word essay reflecting reality. Some people have excoriated me because I have characterized Donald Trump as racist and evil, and they have challenged me to provide proof of my assertions. […]

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 EVENT 1966 UFW PEREGRINACIÓN (PILGRIMAGE) MARCH

By Tia Tenopia on March 19, 2013

The effort to organize farm workers under a union contract has been a long and difficult struggle. In 1965, César Chávez and Dolores Huerta created what would become the United Farm Workers Union. From the onset they faced many obstacles, not the least of which was how to get dozens of California grape growers to […]

Category: History, LATINOPIA EVENT

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