Alberto Martinez, an agave farmer and mezcal distiller in Oaxaca, makes his traditional liquor the old fashioned way. Nikki Vargas (photo) has the story.
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Versifying in Texas: Rossy Evelin Lima is a poet on a mission (video)
Rossy Evelin Lima is an award-winning Mexican poet and linguist. She spoke at TEDxMcallen last year about her experience as an immigrant writer in the U.S. Her website is is here.
Donald Trump’s triumph of the will inspires campaign rally (video)
At a torch-lit evening campaign rally, GOP nominee wannabe Donald Trump shows the crowd how to handle those darn Mexicans – handle them LIKE A BOSS!
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#TBT Throwback Thursday: Mexican bugs dropping the mic (video)
They were just singing La Bamba and you won’t believe what happened next!
Mexico DF: Romina la perra gets a 3-D printed prosthetic leg (video)
Romina the whippet, who lost her right front leg in a lawnmower accident, is being fitted with a new prosthetic limb, courtesy of the Veterinary Hospital of the Universidad del Valle de Mexico (UVM) in Mexico City. And they’re making the device with a 3-D printer.
Mas…Mexico DF: Romina la perra gets a 3-D printed prosthetic leg (video)
Can maiz, Mexico’s gift to the world, survive modernity? (video)
As a Mexican court considers overturning a ban on GMO corn, farmers continue the uphill struggle to preserve traditional seed varieties.
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Mas…Can maiz, Mexico’s gift to the world, survive modernity? (video)
Pocho Ocho top ways El Chapo could escape again
Mexico has recaptured fugitive drug cartel jefe El Chapo Guzman –– who notoriously tunneled out of a high security prison last summer –- but the criminal mastermind isn’t done yet.
Sources tell our correspondents that Guzman’s narcotrafficante associates are already working on plans to bust the gangster out of his next cellblock; we’ve compiled this list of the Pocho Ocho Top Ways El Chapo Could Escape Again:
8. Trained bats
7. Incredible shrinking ray
6. Those gigantor worms from Tremors
What the past can teach immigrant advocates of today
[POCHO amiga Nancy Landa aka Mundo Citizen was a DREAMer before it was cool. Brought to the U.S. as an undocumented child, she was elected student body president at Cal State Northridge. And then she got deported.]
In paying my respects to those who came before me and their struggle due to their legal status, I share an excerpt of this 1995 L.A. Times article featuring the first undocumented student body president of California State University, Northridge, Vladimir Cerna (1996-1997), about his life and advocacy efforts to fight the Donald Trumps of his time.
Battle of the Clowns: Mexico’s Payaso Platanito vs Donald Trump (video)
Battle of the Clowns/Payasos: Payaso Platanito clowns around with Donald Trump with helpful captioning in English and Español tambien. PRO TIP: Platanito means “Little Banana.”
This L.A. pocha wishes she could speak better Spanish (video)
Los Angeles pocha Natalie Munguia didn’t learn Spanish when she was growing up, and now she feels left out, as she explains in this video for Sociology 244 at Whittier College. FYI, here’s the course description:
Mas…This L.A. pocha wishes she could speak better Spanish (video)
Hire this animated Mexican ‘bandito’ for only $45 (toons, video)
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Mas…Hire this animated Mexican ‘bandito’ for only $45 (toons, video)
Brooklyn’s Mexican Israelite kids meet a local rabbi (audio)
Cute, curious kids at the Mexican Israelite Church of God in Brooklyn have many questions about their neighbors –– mysterious Hasidic Jews. Example: What is the deal with those big fur hats?
Debbie Nathan reports for LatinoUSA:
Mas…Brooklyn’s Mexican Israelite kids meet a local rabbi (audio)
Happy Mexican Thanksgiving – Sansgiven – from @SaraChicaD (video)
POCHO’s Subcommandanta del Ñews, Sara Inés Calderón, shares everything you need to know about Sansgiven, the Mexican Thanksgiving. She’s @SaraChicaD on the Twitter.
Who knew? La Quirky learns you can buy huaraches online (video)
La Quirky, pocha shopping expert, discovers you can buy huaraches online. Who knew?
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Mas…Who knew? La Quirky learns you can buy huaraches online (video)
The art of L.A. homie Ramiro Gomez reveals hidden immigrants (video)
We’ve been celebrating the artwork of SoCal’s Ramiro Gomez, Jr. since 2012 and we’re thrilled he’s finally getting the recognition he deserves. Just this week he was named one of OUT magazine’s OUT100 (photo), and The Atlantic featured him in a video:
Mas…The art of L.A. homie Ramiro Gomez reveals hidden immigrants (video)
Alejandro González Iñárritu: ‘No human being is illegal’ (video)
OSCAR winner Alejandro González Iñárritu spoke to an audience at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Sunday night. No human being, he told them, is illegal.
Here’s the transcript:
Mas…Alejandro González Iñárritu: ‘No human being is illegal’ (video)
The horror! Movie mashup remixes ‘Mexican Kitsch’ (NSFW video)
Thrills, chills, tetas, monsters, suspense, and more tetas are back from the dead and live on screen in Mexican Kitsch, a mashup by 3 centavos & 2 botones. How many of these cinematic classics do you recognize? [NSFW brief nip slips.]
Anthony Bourdain: No Mexi immigrants? No U.S. restaurants! (audio)
Celebrity chef and TV host Anthony Bourdain tells SiriusXM’s Pete Dominick that the restaurant industry in the U.S. would collapse if Donald Trump deports 11 million immigrants.
¡Viva Calaca! It’s not only Dia de los Muertos, it’s Day of the Dead, too!
In Viva Calaca, an animated short based on the Voltaire tune from 2007, the dead be dancin’. [Video by Ritxi Ostáriz.]
Mas…¡Viva Calaca! It’s not only Dia de los Muertos, it’s Day of the Dead, too!
Terrifying Trump masks are Halloween hit for Mexican firm (video)
Orders were flooding in to the Caretas REV factory Wednesday (Grupo REV; Ghoulish Productions, Caretas REV, Plásticos y Vinilos REV, Todo Para Halloween, Monster House, La Karpa de la Parka) for latex masks depicting Donald Trump.
Poetry Slam: ‘To be a Mexican man in Texas’ (video)
It’s not easy being … a Mexican man in Texas, as Zachary Caballero explains to the WANPoetry slam.
WANPoetry (Write About Now) is a community-oriented collective of poets that meet at Avantgarden in Houston, Texas every Wednesday at 7:30 PM with the purpose of providing a platform for poets to share their work.
Area taquerias are on lockdown as Trump fever heats up
(PNS reporting from EAST LOS ANGELES) Neighborhood taquerias are on lockdown today with customers urged to “shelter in place” as Donald Trump’s immigrant-hating white wing campaign for the GOP presidential nomination heats up.
Patrons at the highly-rated Guisados on East Cesar E. Chavez Avenue (photo) said they felt particularly vulnerable as Trump supporters began threatening taco-loving families with scary bumper stickers (photo, right).
Rude Aussie narrates Yanet Garcia lingerie photo shoot (NSFW video)
Yanet Garcia, the Televisa Monterrey weather hottie, video’d a sexy lingerie photo shoot for men’s magazine H Para Hombres and an Australia bro at UNILAD added NSFW play-by-play commentary including F-bombs.
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Mas…Rude Aussie narrates Yanet Garcia lingerie photo shoot (NSFW video)
Naco Ñewsday: ‘Naco art’ according to Instagram (photos)
Let’s define our terms: According to the Daily Texican, “naco,” not a nice word, is Mexican slang for a lower class, ignorant country bumpkin, and/or a derogatory term for an “Indio” or native.
“Naco art,” therefore, is the Mexican version of lowbrow “art” like Elvis paintings on velvet or sad clowns and/or big-eyed “Keene” people.
Remezcla’s Daniela Cabera reports:
Mas…Naco Ñewsday: ‘Naco art’ according to Instagram (photos)
Playing the Trump Card (toon)
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Presenting the Frida Kahlo artwork slideshow musical video
Experience Frida Khalo’s paintings in a musical slideshow by RiZaAnn