THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: BURUNDANGA BORICUA ON THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN PUERTO RICO, RICARDO ROMO ON LATINO ART AT SAN ANTONIO CENTRAL LIBRARY, EL PROFE QUEZADA ON THE TRADITION OF CAPIROTADA AND COCINA HERNANDEZ WITH A CAPIROTADA RECIPE!
We begin this week with an alarming report from our correspondent and blogger José M. Umpierre who informs us of the dire situation in Puerto Rico with respect to its electrical and power system. It seems that with continual blackouts and power shortages the situation in Puerto Rico is in a state of “permanent crisis.” Check out this informative and disturbing report. As always we post the blog in English and in Spanish.
Also this week, Ricardo Romo’s Tejano Report returns with a look at a new exhibit of Latino art at the San Antonio Central Library. Featured in the exhibit are well known artists like Carmen Lomas Garza, Jesús Toro Martínez, Julysa Sosa, Beto De León, Destiny Mata Bonnie Cisneros and Suzy Gonzalez. Makes you want to run down to the Central Library and check out this art right away!
And El Profe Quezada returns with his blog on Chicano/Latino culture. This week he looks at the food tradition of capirotada. El Profe gives us a personal look at how this tradition impacted his life and offers a recipe for making your own capirotada during the Lenten season. Paired with El Profe’s blog is a Latinopia video from Diane Hernandez Velarde’s Cocina Hernandez in which she shows us a blow by blow description on how to make your own capirotada.
Enjoy your week on Latinopia!
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