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Tia Lencha’s Cocina: Is Cinco de Mayo Fake News?
Yesterday, mijo ask me gwhy peoples celebrate the Cinco de Mayo.
“Is because of the Battle of Puebla,” I tole him.
“Do people in Mexico get borrachos and crazy like they do here in the United States?”
“Crazy? No. The kids get day off from eschool and then some mens dresses up in the pueblo of Puebla and play like is the battle happening again.”
“No crazy borrachos?”
“No, is more like kids eating candy and washing TV.”
“Is it about Mexican people being proud of their culture?”
“No,” I say. “I’m no proud of gringos gwearing sombreros and eating chimichangas.”
“Are chimichangas Mexican?”
“I don know. I never ate one,” I say. “But the gringos love to eat the food with all the cheez I don know what it is.”
Ghost of Spanish dude sighted in CDMX, and he is pissed!
(PNS reporting from MEXICO CITY) A reeking appartition dressed in the decaying uniform of a Spanish Conquistador was sighted around Mexico City last week, and boy, was he pissed!
The shrieking ghost was seen haunting the Mexico City site of a 1720 battle where the indigenous Mexica Empire defeated the Spanish.
Area man Pito Perez, who reported the ghost to PNS, said it first he thought the goblin might be La Llorona, or pero his drunk Uncle Abelardo, the mariachi, but no.
Mas…Ghost of Spanish dude sighted in CDMX, and he is pissed!
POCHO Jefe @LaloAlcaraz: Melania is welcome at my house! (podcast)
It’s POCHO Jefe Lalo Alcaraz, guesting on the Only in America podcast with Ali Noorani. Here’s how they describe the episode:
Mas…POCHO Jefe @LaloAlcaraz: Melania is welcome at my house! (podcast)
La Cucaracha: Even More Great Moments in Latino History (toons)
PREVIOUSLY ON A BRIEF HISTORY OF LATINO TIME:
Mas…La Cucaracha: Even More Great Moments in Latino History (toons)
Iconic Chicana Dolores Huerta has been fighting sexism since forever (video)
Famed labor organizer and activist Dolores Huerta has been fighting sexual harassment and discrimination since forever — when she was working in an office, when she was building the United Farm Workers, and when men tried to take credit for her work. In this video, by Hannah McNally, Huerta tells her story.
La Cucaracha: In Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe meet the neighbors
PREVIOUSLY IN ANCIENT TENOCHTITLAN:
Mas…La Cucaracha: In Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe meet the neighbors
La Cucaracha: In Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe teach modern discipline
PREVIOUSLY IN ANCIENT TENOCHTITLAN:
Mas…La Cucaracha: In Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe teach modern discipline
La Cucaracha: In ancient Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe build a temple
PREVIOUSLY IN ANCIENT TENOCHTITLAN:
Mas…La Cucaracha: In ancient Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe build a temple
La Cucaracha: In ancient Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe use the ATM (toon)
PREVIOUSLY IN ANCIENT TENOCHTITLAN:
Mas…La Cucaracha: In ancient Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe use the ATM (toon)
POCHO HISTORY 101: Keep poor Irishmen, Italian gangsters, and English convicts OUT OF THE U.S.A! (toon)
Fear of immigrants has a long history in the United States. In this cartoon, published in 1891, illustrator Grant Hamilton draws a judge scolding Uncle Sam:
If Immigration was properly Restricted you would no longer be troubled with Anarchy, Socialism, the Mafia and such kindred evils!
From New York Harbor behind them comes a horde of arriving immigrants labeled “German socialist,” “Russian anarchist,” “Polish vagabond,” “Italian brigand,” “English convict,” and “Irish pauper.
CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ENBIGGENATE.
In Puebla, MX, 500 dead as narco cartel killers crush French gangsters
(PNS reporting from PUEBLA, MX) Federales have finished cleaning up the streets of this southeastern city after a three-day battle between area gangsters and a French gang left 83 locals and 462 gabachos dead, PNS has learned.
The Marseilles gang (“La Eme”) — sent to collect a drug debt allegedly owed by the Puebla-based Ignacio Zaragosa clika (the “Zetas”) — was overwhelmed by the fierce Mexican gangbangers.
Faulty HUMINT (human intelligence) was also a factor.
Based on bogus tips from informants who called themselves “los mentirosos,” which La Eme interpreted as “mentors,” the frogs engaged the enemy at noon. La Eme expected the Zeta sentries to be taking siestas with their sombreros pulled so low they couldn’t see the advancing gunmen. And the close-by burros? The French plan relied on the overhwhelming odor of naturally estanky donkeys to mask the telltale scent of French breath-de-fromage.
But the Zetas were not asleep and those weren’t your mother’s burritos.
Mas…In Puebla, MX, 500 dead as narco cartel killers crush French gangsters
Ronald Reagan to Mex Prez on Cinco de Mayo: ‘Mi casa es su casa’
QUESTION: Why are Mexican rapists and drug dealers streaming North to enter the US of A illegally?
ANSWER: They were invited by “The Great Communicator.”
Check out this video about the 1988 Cinco de Mayo ceremony at the White House when Republican President Ronald Reagan told Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, “Mi casa es su casa.”
WATCH: Mexicans + African-Americans + Gabachos: Mississipi ❤️ ‘hot tamales’
First, Mexicans from just over the border brought tamales to the fertile Mississippi Delta. African-Americans soon realized the Mexicans had a good thing going in these little, corn-husk-wrapped magical meat pies.
And, sure enough, area whites realized the masa miracles weren’t just for people of color anymore. And that’s why Mississippi loves tamales.
Yes, we know proper Spanish means it is one tamal, two tamales. But we’re not proper Spanish speakers or proper anything, actually.
The Mitla Cafe in San Bernardino is where Taco Bell was born (video)
When in San Bernardino, east of Los Angeles in the Inland Empire, be sure to stop by the Mitla Cafe, the restaurant where Taco Bell was born. [Video by Katrina Parks]
In 1991, Arizona rejected MLK Day (Public Enemy video)
In 1991, Public Enemy‘s epic By the Time I Get to Arizona spotlighted the Hate State of Arizona’s failure to implement the Martin Luther King Day national holiday.
A two-year old’s Chicano Christmas
You’re not going to believe this,
but I was born sitting at the kitchen
table with a tamale already in hand.
Of course, some say, that I was born
on a pool table, but that’s another
story.
I still remember the hogs head
simmering in a pot as my uncle
Louie and his buddies sat listening
respectfully as my grandfather
spoke about times gone by.