La Mujer Maravilla. Dirigida por Patty Jenkins. Warner Bros., 2017 La mujer maravilla es valiente y decidida y su historia obedece a la tradición de los superhéroes. Esta entretenida película de acción es también la historia de una mujer que se revela contra su madre y destruye mitos. Diana (Gal…
On Saturday, a person tried to humiliate me by sending a brief message through my personal email account. The message was simple, characteristic of the small mind that sent it: a picture of me in a less than favorable light, with language referring to my face, “not good, bad, bad.”…
Venezuela is a wonderful country with beautiful and caring people. Nature has bestowed us with an exuberant landscape rich in minerals from oil to iron, to gold. During the last 18 years, Venezuelans have fallen and stood up several times over, and today, July 16th, 2017, we stood up…
The last few days, the heat has forced us to grab a few blankets and sleep on the ground floor of our house. On our makeshift beds on the bare floor tiles, with a fan running all night long, we managed to sleep despite the record breaking temperatures in the…
I crossed the glass doors of the Pearson International Airport in Toronto twenty years ago today, tugging along my two children, six suitcases and a load of hope. The stamp on my Landed Immigrant document marks the beginning of our new life, an ongoing migration journey for me. Preparing…
Clínica Tepati, in Sacramento, was founded in 1974 to provide basic health care to Xicanx and Latinx without health insurance. Completely run by undergraduate students of UC Davis, Tepati has now expanded to provide legal services, advocacy, and community resources. Its medical services now include pharmaceutical and mental health services.…
On Venezuela’s 206th birthday, we celebrate the strength of a nation that does not submit to a tyrant or to foreign influence. We also mourn the lives lost in the last three months, 90 deaths, almost one per day of protest. They have fallen victims of the National Guard, El…