(Español) Argumentan también que si Puerto Rico se integrara plenamente Estados Unidos, “recibiría más gasto federal para reactivar la economía, que actualmente tiene una tasa de desempleo cercana al 12%”.

The Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera, recently released after serving 36 years in prison for alleged sedition, was chosen to head the National Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York and honored as a Hero of National Freedom.

The war on drugs and heavy-handed approaches have led to a mass incarceration crisis in the United States, the country with the world’s largest incarcerated population. What is the cost of mass incarceration for Latino families and neighborhoods?

This week marks one year since the birth of Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, the Mexican writer better known as Juan Rulfo, who achieved broad international acclaim though he only wrote two books.

(Español) Se unirá a Artemio, Martha González y Quetzal Flores, del grupo Quetzal; Gilberto Gutiérrez, de Mono Blanco, y Russell Rodríguez de ACTA. Esta es una conversación organizada por la anfitriona y productora de KPOO, Chelis López sobre la historia de Son Jarocho y sus raíces en el área de San Francisco Bay.

Joining Quetzal is the Son Jarocho singer-poet and master of the stringed jarana, Gilberto Gutiérrez, and fellow member of his internationally acclaimed group Mono Blanco, the singer Gisela Farias Luna. Also coming to the stage is the accomplished Son Jarocho musician and dancer, Russell Rodriguez; and the San Francisco-based Cuicacalli Dance Company led by Jesus Jacoh Cortes.