By José Ayala Rumbo News Casa Dominican, Inc. continued to celebrate the Patrimony Month to mark the 169th anniversary of Dominican independence and the bicentennial of the birth of Juan Pablo Duarte, and it did this past Saturday at the Public Library Lawrence with the screening of a short film. With a cozy atmosphere and [...]
Video: Filmmaker set to trace the Afro-Latina experience from before the slave trade to present-day
LatinaLista — With the rising national awareness of Latinos, courtesy of the 2012 presidential election, the stereotypical perceptions of who are Latinas and Latinos are beginning to be shattered. However, one segment of the Latino community who find themselves still struggling “to explain themselves” are Afro-Latinos. They are either challenged to prove their ‘Latinidad’ or [...]
Dominicans march against new taxes
Rumbo News LAWRENCE, MA — On Saturday, December 15, a large gathering of Dominicans participated in a walk in the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts. They were demonstrating against what they called ‘El Paquetazo’ or a tax hike, the fiscal hole, corruption and impunity in their country, the Dominican Republic. The starting point was Broadway Haverhill [...]
Guest Voz: A new direction for the Dominican Republic — a country already in critical distress
By Ivan G. Marte LatinaLista I want my first words to be this: We’ll accomplish, without fear and without taking a moment to rest, what we dreamed not too long ago! We’ll overcome whatever challenges and difficulties will come along in our path. We’ll build the biggest and most respected Dominican Republic in the world. [...]
Dominican Republic: A new President promises hope and change while holding on to the past
By Ivan G. Marte LatinaLista The Dominican Republic (DR) has a new president, Danilo Medina. Medina is very much interested in projecting a new image for the country. He wants the DR to be seen as a place of progress and economic stability under an honest administration. Medina was born in Arroyo Cano, in the [...]
Intrn’l Video: For poor Dominican boys, baseball career is either a home run out of poverty or strike-out
LatinaLista — Thirty-four percent of the Dominican Republic lives in poverty. For many young Dominican men, there is only one way out of their poverty — become professional baseball players or peloteros. Every year, on July 2, 16-year-old Dominican boys line up for a chance to be signed by professional baseball teams to realize their [...]
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