U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico

BURUNDANGA BORICUA 8.15.15 “HOMELAND – PART ONE”

Cuba ñañigo y bachata, Haití vodú y calabaza, Puerto Rico, burundanga. -- Luis Palés Matos. The following essay on Puerto Rico continues a historical journey attempting to make some sense … [Read more...]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO PELIGRO INMINENTE Y PRIMEROS AUXILIOS

November 23, 2024 By wpengine

Burundanga de Zocotroco José M. Umpierre De Peligro Inminente y Primeros Auxilios El Estado Autocrático Para todo aquel que intenta cumplir la responsabilidad ciudadana de mantenerse informado, el producto inevitable tras las recientes eleccione del Norte es el agotamiento; las batallas tan sido intensas y por demasiado tiempo. Media también el alivio de la incertidumbre, […]

TALES OF TORRES with LUIS TORRES – AFTER TRUMP: THE TWILIGHT ZONE

November 23, 2024 By wpengine

“Twilight Zone” Helped Me Cope with the News of the Hideous Trump Election By Luis Torres The shock of the election results on November 4 began reverberating in my head and in my very being immediately. Pendejo Trump elected? Again? There was a moment of denial. Then a jolt of anger, then a slowly engulfing […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT ENCOURAGING INITIATIVES OF CHICANO ART

November 23, 2024 By wpengine

Encouraging Initiatives of Chicano Art Chicano art has existed for over fifty years in the United States, but until recently it has been virtually invisible to major museum audiences in the Southwest. Chicanos produce outstanding art as revealed when The Getty Center invested $5 million in 2017 in research grants given to arts institutions across […]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO “THE SCARCITY OF EGGS”

November 16, 2024 By wpengine

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority shares in it. Leo Tolstoy Like millions of Americans, I’m struggling to process what the U.S. just did. By electing Donald Trump to a second term the U.S. normalized a sociopath … a convicted felon … an adjudicated sexual abuser … a profligate liar […]

LATINOPIA WORD JOSÉ MONTOYA “PACHUCO PORTFOLIO”

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.

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

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 […]

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

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