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Admiraron en Tijuana las Acrobacias de la Compañía China “Zhejiang Acrobatics Troupe”

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Por Paco Zavala 
 Como resultado del trabajo disciplinado que por muchos años han practicado los jóvenes miembros de la Compañía China “Zhejiang Acrobatics Troupe”, hemos podido presenciar su admirable espectáculo “Expresiones Amorosas del Paraíso”, los pasados 25 y 26 de octubre en la Sala de Espectáculos del Centro Cultural Tijuana, en colaboración con el Instituto de [...]

Day of the Dead Altar at Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park

 In honor of Mexico’s Day of the Dead Mingei International is exhibiting a Day of the Dead altar in the Museum. This colorful, traditional offering to the dead is a collaboration between the Museum, the Mexican Consulate in San Diego and the University of Tijuana. It will be on view through November 29 in the [...]

The San Diego Public Library Screens “The Way We Get By”

Three Elderly People Battle Their Greatest Fears and Find a Reason to Live
 The San Diego Public Library, in partnership with Media Arts Center San Diego and PBS’ Point-of-View (POV) Series, will host a preview film screening of Aron Gaudet’s The Way We Get By on Sunday, November 08 at 2:00 pm in the 3rd floor [...]

SDSU’s Reza Earns Pac-10 Player of the Week Honors

Reza picks up second career conference weekly award
 San Diego State junior Raymundo Reza has been named the Pac-10 Player of the Week, the league announced Tuesday. It is the Denver, Colo., native’s second career conference weekly award and team’s first this season.
 Reza, who was honored by two national teams of the week (College Soccer News [...]

Spartans Santiago a Field Hockey Leader

 For elite athletes high school sports act as a springboard toward gaining a collegiate scholarship. For others, especially those playing high profile sports such as football and basketball, it can turn them into campus celebrities. But athletes that compete in sports like tennis, golf and field hockey rarely get noticed for what they do. Sometimes [...]

Guest Editorial: Veterans’ Day: Saluting a Forgotten Force

By Jim Estrada
 Millions of Latinos are proud of their history of military service to our nation. To discover they have defended the USA against all enemies, from the Revolutionary War to the current conflicts in Afghanistan, one must cull through volumes of research, academic dissertations, or tomes of Spanish-language and Latino literature, because this history [...]

The Public Forum . . . El Foro Publico

An Open Letter to Mayor Cox
 I served on the C.V. Economic Development Commission when the city was working on its Vision 2020 back then. Education was a key component of that vision to attract high paying high tech and biomedical companies to the future Otay business parks.
 Due to budget cuts and differences in focus and [...]

A un año del “Cambio”

Por Humberto Caspa, Ph.D
 Un año como hoy, los periódicos nacionales vislumbraban una nueva era para la Unión Americana. “Es Obama: victoria decisiva que hace historia”, decía Los Ángeles Times.
 No hay duda, la victoria de Barack Obama fue un momento histórico. Con su llegada al gobierno, la comunidad Latina sintió que “algo” se podía alcanzar en [...]

El Gasto No Hará Que Nuestra Economía Crezca

Por Israel Ortega
El problema con el socialismo es que acaba agotando el dinero de los demás. –
Margaret Thatcher
 Con nuestro país sumido en una recesión, es fácil de olvidarse de lo obvio: Seguimos viviendo en el país más próspero e influyente de la historia.
 Lamentablemente, el Congreso y la administración Obama están poniendo a nuestro país en [...]

¡ASK A MEXICAN!

By Gustavo Arellano
 Dear Mexican: Why do beaners or gabachos deliberately try to ignore white people and act like they’re not there, or when your walking by, the lady beaners laugh so hard with a repulsive fake laugh that makes you want to just punch them? Not only I have noticed this, but a lot of [...]

Migrant Memories Surround the Days of the Dead

Frontera NorteSur
 For Don Ines Antonio Resendiz, it was the winds of fate that whisked the young Mexican farmer to the United States. Like other residents of the small town of Cerrito in the Costa Grande region of Guerrero state, Resendiz’s livelihood was shattered when Hurricane Tara tore a path of destruction in November 1961. Stripped [...]

1989 la caída del “Muro de Berlín”: se nos olvida

Por Enrique Davis Mazlum
 Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial se reestructuran las fronteras. Una de las modificaciones fue el anexo a la Unión Soviética (URSS) los territorios de Estonia, Letonia, Lituania, Polonia, así como parte del territorio de Finlandia y Rumania. Alemania se dividió entre Estados Unidos, Francia, Reino Unido y la Unión Soviética (URSS), [...]

U.S. – Mexico celebrate joint Baja California air quality studies

TIJUANA, MEXICO — Today in Tijuana B. C., Mexico, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Mexican Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), the Environmental Protection Agency of Baja California, the California Air Resources Board and the Border Environment Cooperation Commission will initiate the Baja California Air Monitoring Network coverage assessment study and the Tijuana-Rosarito [...]

World War II, Puerto Rican Soldiers, and the “Greatest Generation”

By Daniel M. Lopez
Editor El Boricua Newsletter
 This coming Veterans Day (Nov. 11, 2009), is an appropriate, and solemn, time to remember and pay long overdue tribute to our brave and heroic Puerto Rican soldiers who served and fought during World War II. Unfortunately, only a relatively few Americans and possibly Hispanics are aware, and even [...]

MARISA TREVIÑO: She’s one blogging Latina lista to be reckoned with!

By Nilki Benitez
 Hispanic bloggers are fast becoming a force to be reckoned with and Marisa Treviño, in Dallas, Texas, is one of the more preeminent and a shining beacon leading the way not only in the blogosphere, but is an exceptional role model for Latina journalists as well. 
 As founder and publisher of the LATINA LISTA [...]

Preventing Breast Cancer Through Health Care Reform!

By Wendy C. Wolf
 One simple test could end up saving thousands of women’s lives. Yet, for those without health insurance, the test comes too late. According to the American Cancer Society, this year alone an estimated 40,170 women will lose their lives to breast cancer. Meanwhile, it is estimated that 4,000 breast cancer deaths could [...]

Organización ayuda a mujeres latinas a prevenir el cáncer de seno

WASHINGTON (ConcienciaNews) – Han pasado 17 años desde que Venus Ginés tuvo cáncer de seno; pero ese pasado le permitió hacer una promesa que ahora es una realidad: ayudar en la prevención de este tipo de cáncer entre las mujeres latinas.
 “Cuando me diagnosticaron el cáncer yo era madre soltera y pensaba qué iba a hacer; estaba [...]