Meet Pancho Claus, Santa Of The Borderland Barrios
Meet Pancho Claus, Santa Of The Borderland Barrios
*I love a good Pancho Claus story. … only in the borderlands. VL By Andrea Gompf, Remezcla In 1956, Lalo Guerrero – otherwise known as “the father of Chicano music” […]
807AM En Nuevo Laredo
*The artist Navarro first came to my attention in the aftermath of the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, MO. He’s a native Chicagoan whose family went there from Nuevo Laredo, […]
Life on the border should be the best of both worlds, not one or the other
By Nadia Tamez-Robledo, Latino Times/Corpus Christi Caller-Times Growing up on the border means living with two of everything. Some of the sets are obvious. Two languages. Two kinds of traditional food, […]
Two Border Villages Reunite For One Day
By Lorne Matalon, Fronteras IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RIO GRANDE — In the rural border areas of Texas, seven so-called ‘informal crossings’ were shut down following Sept. 11. These were […]
Puro Border: The Story Of La Frontera From Many Angles
By Wuicho Vargas Puro Border, edited by Bobby Byrd, John William Byrd and Luis Humberto Crosthwaite. This book is an excellent source of all types of literary material and the theme […]
