Ramsey Muniz

LATINOPIA BIOGRAPHY RAMIRO “RAMSEY” MUÑIZ

Ramiro Muñiz Ramiro Muñiz, known as Ramsey Muñiz (born December 13, 1942), is a formerly incarcerated Hispanic political activist who ran for governor of Texas in 1972 and 1974, each time as the … [Read more...]

LATINOPIA EVENT 1972 RAMSEY MUÑIZ IN HIS OWN WORDS

LATINOPIA EVENT RAMSEY MUÑIZ IN HIS OWN WORDS_1 from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Ramiro "Ramsey" Muñiz is a previously incarcerated Chicano activist who ran for Governor of Texas in 1972 and 1974. With … [Read more...]

TALES OF TORRES 06.16.19 WOMEN HELPING WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD: HOW ABOUT LATINOS HELPING LATINOS?

June 16, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Women Helping Women in Hollywood: How about Latinos helping Latinos? Very recently there was a thought-provoking article in the Calendar section of the Los Angeles Times. Basically, it was a profile of actress/writer/film director Emma Thompson. The main reason for the piece was that it was a vehicle to promote her latest movie, “Late Night.” […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA del ZOCOTROCO 06.09.19 “TORMENTAS INMINENTES”

June 8, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Nos llega el mes de junio con acuciante calor, algunas lluvias y la incipiente angustia de que comienza la época de huracanes. Las huellas de la devastación que provocasen Irma y María todavía están a la vista, me preocupan más las huellas que se sienten en el alma. El temor a que otros vientos que […]

MIS PENSAMIENTOS with ALFREDO SANTOS 06.09.19 “THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY”

June 8, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Bienvenidos otra vez a La Voz Newspaper. In this issue we are focused on the 75th Anniversary of D-Day. This battle which started on June 6th, 1944, was the offensive that turned the tide and forced Adolf Hitler’s army into a retreat. Thousands of lives were lost and many soldiers who died in Europe ended […]

MARK GUERRERO’S CHICANO MUSIC CHRONICLES – BILLY CARDENAS

June 2, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

This month, Mark Guerrero’s Chicano Music Chronicles features music manager and promoter, Billy Cardenas. During the 1960s, Cardenas managed some of the most influential Chicano music groups including The Romancers, The Jaguars with the Salas Brothers, The Royal Jesters, Cannibal & the Headhunters, The Premiers, The Blendells, and many others including Mark’s own teenage band, […]

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