The Italian philosopher, Niccolo Machavelli, answered the question whether it is better to be feared or loved by saying it is better to be both, but if you have to choose it is safer to be feared. I have noticed our young Latinos have adopted this philosophy. They have chosen to be feared over… [Continue Reading]
More than Cigars in Cuba… Let’s talk travel.
06/30/2010 By Leave a Comment
Today at 2pm EDT the House Agricultural Committee with holding a “mark up” on H.R. 4645, this bill would restore U.S. citizens’ right to travel to Cuba and facilitate needed U.S. agricultural sales to the island. This our best chance to end the travel ban in 2010. We need you to make some noise… [Continue Reading]
Antillanismo
06/30/2010 By 3 Comments
In the late nineteenth century, a group of men gathered in New York and conspired to free Puerto Rico and Cuba from Spanish colonial rule, as well as shake the dictatorship from the Dominican Republic and reunite Hispañola. At every step, they fought vehemently against annexation from the United States. One close-call happened when… [Continue Reading]
Cup of tea? No, thanks. I’ll pass. The hypocrisy and ugly truth about the Tea Party
06/29/2010 By 5 Comments
Much has been made of the rise of the American radical right wing, or the group better known as the Tea Party. We know that they are heavily informed by fringe right-wing organizations such as the John Birch Society, and that they offer very seductive ideas about freedom and liberty, but just who… [Continue Reading]
The Unemployment Line
06/29/2010 By Leave a Comment
The Unemployment Line I recently read an article about appreciating being unemployed. Well, I didn’t so much read the article as I read the description of the article, but I digress. Immediately after reading the description I wondered what exactly there is to appreciate in unemployment, something I’m sure was explained in the… [Continue Reading]
Are we losing ourselves, or gaining something new?
06/29/2010 By 1 Comment
There are a couple of things…okay, quite a few things that maybe I should feel guilty about. But, all in all, I’ve made sure I don’t dwell on them so I can move on with life and not make the same mistakes again. However, there’s definitely one thing that has haunted me throughout my… [Continue Reading]
Our Music, "Salsa"
06/29/2010 By 2 Comments
Growing up I was always listening to music. According to my Mom, I came out Salsa dancing out of her womb. Music has always been a very strong part of my life since I was a little girl. I never knew what kind of music it was, all I knew was that it… [Continue Reading]
Curvy Latina in the workplace
06/28/2010 By 6 Comments
Recently, I read an article about this curvy Latina, Debrahlee Lorenzana, who’s now in the process of suing Citigroup. They let her go because her work attire was to distracting. Citgroup refrained Lorenzana from wearing certain types of fitted clothes because of her physique. These clothes ranged from anything like a turtleneck to a… [Continue Reading]
Natural healing
06/28/2010 By 3 Comments
Recently, a friend of mine, Juan Alanis, mentioned about his grandmother curing Ojo Mal, a.k.a. Evil Eye, the curse that mostly children get from adults looking at children longingly with out touching them or any person that stares too long at another with envy or wicked intent. Parents’s put Ojo de Venado (Deer’s… [Continue Reading]
Hispanic, Latino or Illegal Immigrant
06/28/2010 By Leave a Comment
The distinctions I make in writing this are only for clarification and are not meant to elevate one group over another. I am one of the millions of Hispanics in the U.S. who are multi-generational citizens of this country. That means we’ve been here a long time and it is no more accurate to… [Continue Reading]