Indigenous dance traditions in Durango, Mexico. Eva Pern's death. A 1976 earthquake that shook Guatemalan society into political and religious mobilization. Those seemingly dissimilar topics found a common element Saturday as panelists wrapped up the four-day Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies annual conference in Santa Fe. The conference offered panelists an opportunity to disclose a variety of unknown facts of history, the arts and culture.
Mexicans weren't the only ones gathered at the Utah State Fair "Fiesta Mexicana." The official celebration for Mexican Independence was compiled with the richness of Latin-American culture and heritage. We try to come every year, we like the food and listening to live music," said Alfonso Zepeda, from El Salvador.
Hispanic Heritage Month, which begins this week, actually started as a single week in the 1960s under the Johnson administration; it was expanded in 1988 to cover the 30 days between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15. The dates cover independence anniversaries for Mexico, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, as well as Columbus Day, which many countries celebrate as the beginning of Latin presence and establishment of Latin American culture in the New World.
My, what a difference 80 years has made in the United States. Jeffrey T. Kuhner's "The United States of Mexico?" (Commentary, Oct. 21) rightly laments the takeover of the Southwestern U.S. by the Spanish language and Latin American culture. My parents emigrated separately from Germany. They learned English, met and married in New York City. When my father died, my mother moved us upstate. I was bilingual when I entered kindergarten. One day, a social worker visited my mother at home and asked that she stop speaking German with me because I spoke in school with a German accent. Well, my mother complied. My accent and my knowledge of German disappeared by the time I was 7. It took two years of high school German, a year in college and three years stationed in Frankfurt for me to regain fl...
Local Spanish-language broadcaster Radio Ambiente Group plans a festival Sunday near Patriot Lake at Shelby Farms. Organizers emphasized that the festival welcomes non-Hispanics, said Carmen Reyes, the company's president. We want to make it bigger so that the Anglos can take part, too, so that they can come to our festival and get to know the Latin American culture," Reyes said.
David Petreman, 60, of Bellbrook, is unique for being a distinguished Wright State University professor of Spanish and Latin American culture and a well-known poet, who writes about Chile and his good friend, now deceased, Chilean author, Francisco Coloane. I'm probably better known in Chile," said Petreman, who speaks fluent Spanish and thinks of Chile as a second home. "My college thesis, a literary analysis of Francisco, was written in Spanish and published in Chile.
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