People + History Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
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 5, 2009
Husband and Wife Team Keep Native Traditions Alive – Beatriz Ortega Ruiz y Mario Augustin Gaspar Rodriguez create using a pre-Hispanic technique called pasta de caña de maiz & maque, an indigenous form of lacquer ware that already had a long tradition when the Spaniards arrived 500 years ago.
September 30, 2009
On this day in 1822, Joseph Marion Hernandez became the first Hispanic-American to serve in Congress as a delegate from the Florida Territory.
September 29, 2009
Juanita Castro, the exiled sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, is set to release a first-person memoir in which she talks at length about her brothers.
September 21, 2009
What is Cesar Chavez Chavez’ place in history?
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 27, 2009
Maria Conchita Alonso Narrates New Documentary About Latin American Dictators And Immigration
July 20, 2009
Every year, around July 20, El Pasoan Felipe Cardenas proudly tells people that his father buried Pancho Villa twice.
July 3, 2009
Happy Ritchie Valens Day! – the 4th of July
June 5, 2009
Happy Birthday, Federico García Lorca, Spanish Poet and Playwright
May 28, 2009
Historians to salute Hispanic roots in Loveland, Colorado
March 17, 2009
In late April, Alfredo Santos will publish his reference book, The 2009 Austin Hispanic Almanac, which will offer what he says is the first historical, statistical portrait of Austin’s Latino business and civic community as it’s evolved from the early 1900s to its status today as the city’s fastest-growing demographic component.
December 23, 2008
Juan Gonzales, who was born and raised in east Stockton, is spearheading a project documenting 200 years of Latino journalism in the United States. Titled “Voices for Justice: The Enduring Legacy of the Latino Press in the U.S.,” the project follows how Latino newspapers and the issues they cover have changed since the inception of the nation’s first Latino newspaper, El Misisipi, founded in 1808 in New Orleans.
December 12, 2008
Killer Chic – Hollywood’s Sick Love Affair with Che Guevara – (very good 8 minute video)
December 2, 2008
Man’s basement library a trove of Latino history – Richard Soto in Stockton, California
October 23, 2008
Website chronicles farm workers’ rights fight by Cesar Chavez
September 30, 2008
On this day in 1822, Joseph Marion Hernandez (1793-1857), a delegate from the newly established Florida Territory, became the first Hispanic American to serve in Congress
September 29, 2008
New volume collects works of Chicano writer, artist and Renaissance man :: José Antonio Burciaga – “The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes,” edited by Mimi R. Gladstein and Daniel Chacón (University of Texas at El Paso)
September 25, 2008
25 ANIVERSARIO DE SU MUERTE – El México de Luis Buñuel
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).
September 15, 2008
The first Hispanic world boxing champion – Panama Al Brown
September 12, 2008
Latino activist George Ortiz joined other local Latinos in contributing memories, and lending his recorded voice, to the Sonoma County Museum’s new exhibit, “La Frontera Del Norte” (“The Frontier of the North,”) which opened Friday night in Santa Rosa.
September 10, 2008
Today in 1823 – Simon Bolivar, who led the wars for independence from Spain in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, was named president of Peru, with dictatorial powers
August 14, 2008
Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s transformation from adventurer to revolutionary is chronicled by his first wife in the intimate portrait, “My Life With Che” (Palgrave Macmillian, 223 pages, $21.95), picking up where his own book, “The Motorcycle Diaries” left off.
June 2, 2008
Elfego Baca was a colorful, real-life character of the Old West – The Old West had a lot of characters, but with the exception of Pancho Villa, we don’t know that much about Hispanic individuals.
May 5, 2008
Film details Hispanic Marine’s acts in WWII – Guy Gabaldon – (good to see this story make it to AP)
