By Alain Castillo LatinaLista This summer, a local Dallas, Texas theatre company will step into the national immigration debate with a hard look at an immigrants’ experience south of the US border. The production, “The Dreamers: Part One” created by the Cara Mia Theatre ensemble and led by local director and writer David Lozano, explores [...]
Distinguished English Linguist: Living in a world where lies are designed to sound truthful degrades language and life
By Laurel Airica Laurel Airica “… Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” George Orwell The intentional misuse of words to cast spells on [...]
The future of the U.S. Catholic Church depends on Latinos
By Insight Tr3s LatinaLista Earlier this month, Hispanics celebrated the election of Pope Francis, the first Latino to hold the papacy. People of Latin origin are driving Catholicism’s worldwide growth, so clearly the College of Cardinals knew their target audience when they chose a South American as the next pontiff. However, while Catholicism is the [...]
First Latino to win prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a homeboy from the U.S.-Mexico border
LatinaLista — In a prestigious literary competition where more than 350 novels and short-story collections by American authors published in the U.S. in 2012 were evaluated by a three-judge panel, a 58-year-old former priest walked away with the $15,000 prize — he’s also the first Latino to win the honored award in the 32-year history [...]
Selection of First Latin American Pope has Spanish-speaking world celebrating
LatinaLista — Latin America has the highest percentage of the world’s Roman Catholics — 39 percent. Overall, Latinos are credited with sustaining a religion that sees its numbers dwindling in some parts of the world. So the election of 76-year-old Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina as Pope Francis I — the first [...]
Latina entrepreneur on a mission to eradicate term ‘Hispanic’ from American lexicon
LatinaLista — Who better than to craft a new image for “American Latinos” than a company that specializes in branding? With a tongue-in-cheek name, Greencard Creative, the organization, headed by Chile-born Tatiana Pagés, launched in 2008 the American Latino Initiative. The goal of the initiative has been to shatter assumptions that both the public and [...]
