Category: Videos
Video: GOOGLE brings Latin American museums to the world via high-tech camera
GOOGLE is bringing the art museums of Latin America to the world via its GOOGLE Art Project. Journalist Brian Andrews reports how GOOGLE is using its famous 360-degree, high-definition camera to create online tours and spotlight ten museums in such countries as Mexico, Argentina and Brazil.
Intrn’l Video: The sad tale of Panamá’s Coco Solo
At one time, Coco Solo was a busy naval base in Panamá. Its claim to fame is that it was the birthplace of John McCain, who was born there in 1936. However these days, Coco Solo is a far cry from the glory of its naval past. Today, the rundown base, that has no running [...]
Video for Thought: Scholar finds too many kids good at “school” bad at “thinking”
Dr. Derek Cabrera leads the Cabrera Research Lab, is the author of five books, numerous journal articles, and a US patent. Cabrera discovered when teaching Ivy League students at Cornell University that his students were smart in every way but one — they could not think. He noticed when he gave his students unstructured tests [...]
Video: Life doesn’t stop with a diabetes diagnosis
Diabetes, whether Type 1 or Type 2, is a serous health issue, especially for Latinos. Of all Latinos, Mexican Americans suffer the most from the disease that can rob a person of their limbs, their eyesight and eventually their life. On top of the dismal odds of Mexican Americans being diagnosed most often with the [...]
Viernes Video: Indie doc about Puerto Rican revolutionary reveals the hard struggle for independence
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos was a professional trumpet player in his native Puerto Rico. Yet, he did more than just play music. He lived a clandestine life as a revolutionary and became a strategic leader of groups known for their violent and dramatic acts towards winning independence for Puerto Rico. “Filiberto” is a feature-length documentary that [...]
Video: Remembering artist Eduardo Carrillo and introducing him to a new generation
In December 2012, the documentary “Eduardo Carrillo — A Life of Engagement” will be released introducing this now deceased artist to a whole new generation. In the short promo for the upcoming film, Eduardo Carrillo is memorialized via the many paintings and murals he left behind that served as an extension as to how he [...]
Intrn’l Video: A Mexican beauty pageant celebrates mestizo heritage
Discrimination and racism against the indigenous and those dark skinned is rampant in Mexico and other South American countries. Greg Brosnan, a documentary filmmaker based in Mexico City, noticed that racism against Mexico’s indigenous population is clearly evident in lack of access to basic services in places such as Chiapas on the southern border. “But [...]
Video: Latina scholar reveals latest data showing women voters could decide 2012 election
Is it women who will decide the 2012 vote? Dr. Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto is a Fellow at the Center for Politics and Governance at the University of Texas’ (UT) Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. She studies voting trends among women voters and reveals that women voters may determine the outcome of the [...]
Video: Rudy Acuña,”Father of Chicano Studies,” talks about Arizona banning his book
Rodolfo Francisco Acuña has been called the “father of Chicano Studies.” It’s a topic he knows well. Acuña is a historian, professor emeritus, and the author of Occupied America: A History of Chicanos, which tells the history of the Southwestern United States that includes Mexican Americans. The book has been reprinted five times since its [...]
Viernes Video: Negro – Latino Identity
During a week that saw the Pew Hispanic Research Center release a survey about how Latinos identify themselves — more prefer the term “Hispanic” versus “Latino,” this first installment in a planned series of documentaries about Latino identity is all the more relevant. Negro: Latino Identity is about how Latinos personally identify with both American [...]
