Eye Openers + History Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 16, 2009
Comments on a California Legislative Bill by a Hispanic Newspaper in 1856
November 7, 2009
CNN’s Rick Sanchez Interviews Juanita Castro: “While you were still in Cuba and your brother was beginning a Marxist revolution, you were not only cooperating with the CIA, but you were protecting CIA agents who were inside Cuba at the time.”
October 12, 2009
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signs law that highlights Hispanic history in public schools
October 5, 2009
Sugar beets to baseball: Northern Colorado’s Hispanic baseball league
September 30, 2009
Does the U.S. Constitution defend the rights of undocumented immigrants?
September 29, 2009
A Chilean family who was removing the soil from the yard of their home where they were planning to do some construction got a big surprise when they found four skeletons dating from 320 B.C.
September 8, 2009
Honoring Richard Pancho Gonzalez and His Legacy – a Latino tennis star remembered – He was the best player in the world for 10 years, from 1952 to 1961, his nephew said, and he won the United States Professional Championship eight times during that stretch. – (I had no idea – actually just found 2 old posts)
July 20, 2009
Un basurero de Nueva York encuentra figuras mayas del año 300 antes de Cristo
March 14, 2009
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Simón Bolívar! – Inspired by socialist President Hugo Chavez, a father and daughter are hoping to launch a line of action figures from Venezuela’s history to counter the popularity of “imperialist” American superheroes like Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
December 18, 2008
Spain’s last statue of Franco is taken down in Santander
December 8, 2008
Debate Rages in Peru: Was a Lost City Ever Lost? – Machu Picchu
December 2, 2008
Man’s basement library a trove of Latino history – Richard Soto in Stockton, California
October 6, 2008
This Year Marks The 40th Anniversary Of José Feliciano’s Famed Performance Of The National Anthem In The 1968 World Series
September 22, 2008
Historian William David Estrada brings us a fascinating and well-researched historical examination of his city’s cultural and political heart in The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space (University of Texas Press, $24.95 paperback).
August 18, 2008
Archaeologists have gathered the earliest evidence of tar used as waterproofing material in Veracruz in Mexico, which is more than 3,500 years old.
July 15, 2008
The 700-year-old Mexican Mummy With A Tummy Ache
July 9, 2008
Lima bust nets pre-Hispanic textiles
June 3, 2008
Machu Picchu ‘ransacked 40 years before its discovery’ – new research claims
May 12, 2008
Seaweed confirms Monte Verde village in Chile is among oldest in the Americas
May 6, 2008
California Education to Latinos: Sorry, We Forgot That You Exist!
