Mexico – Fake Flamenco

bilingual, food, history, Indigenous Peoples, Mexico, Spanish, Spanish Culture and Language

Nahuatl: You Know More than You Realize

The language of the indigenous people that Spaniards met for the first time in the grand city of Tenotichlan may seem very remote from your experience. I think you’ll be surprised how many words, especially food vocabulary you already know. Many of the world’s favorite foods come from Mixteca (Aztec) culture, see the chart below. […]

history, Immigration, Mexico, photography, Spanish Culture and Language, The Americas

Day of the Dead 2022

In October, I’ve set out tombstones to honor the great men and women who passed every year (since 2004); the revolutionaries, the trailbreakers, those luminaries who changed the world. From lists of thousands, I choose a few exemplary souls. Courage, selflessness, fighting for freedom, equality and justice are qualities I admire. Emiliano Zapata gets a […]

Gardening, Indigenous Peoples, Mexico, Nature, photography, Spanish Culture and Language

Butterfly on Purple Aster

This was the last monarch we saw in our garden this year. They are flying south to Mexico now, to make their date for the Día de los Muertos, 2 November. Day of the Dead is similar to All Saints’ Day, a Christian holiday honoring those who have passed on. However, parts of Día de […]

bilingual, En español, history, Latinas, Life as a Woman, Mexico, Spanish Culture and Language

1st Latin American Woman to Win a Golden Globe

In the 1950s, a Hollywood director invited a famous actor from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema to work on a movie filmed in Mexico; The Bullfighter and the Lady (1951). The actor’s name was Katy Jurado. She then was asked to join the cast of High Noon (1952), filmed in the US. If you’ve […]

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Ada Limón 24th US Poet Laureate!

Tuesday’s announcement by the US Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden is welcome good news. She chose Ada Limón as the 24th US poet laureate. Limón’s tenure begins September 29, 2022 with a poetry reading in the Coolidge Auditorium in Washington DC. Limón has an MFA from NYU, has published six books of poetry and hosted […]

bilingual, En español, Mexico, Spanish Culture and Language, The Americas

Latin America: 3 Best and 3 Worst for Income Equality

3 Most and 3 Least Unequal Incomes For Latin America, there are several red flags in the World Inequality Database report for 2022. Covid has brought financial disparities into focus, many people have lost their jobs although the wealthiest have profited during the pandemic. Nations that we think of as prosperous like Mexico, Brazil and […]