Articles tagged with mexico

In Los Angeles, we mark our neighborhoods with symbols of ethnic and cultural pride. And murals are strong representations of those identities. From South L.A. to Venice, and from Boyle Heights to Hollywood, street art tells us a lot about the people who live in those parts of town.
Bricia Lopez brought in a pair of Oaxacan muralists known as Colectivo LaPiztola to paint the …

Conclave prayers. An overnight prayer vigil will be held at downtown L.A.’s Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in advance of the selection of a new pope. The College of Cardinals is scheduled to begin meeting tomorrow in Rome to elect a successor to Benedict XVI. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles says that every hour during the vigil there will be a recitation …

Manhunt continues. The search for suspected murderer Christopher Dorner is now going full bore on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Authorities raided a hotel in Tijuana, Mexico yesterday where they thought the fugitive ex-cop might be hiding. But it turned out to be just another dead end. Multiple police agencies are investigating more than 800 tips about Dorner. Officers in Big Bear have …

Today is the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Across Mexico – and the world – devotees flock to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the heart Mexico City to celebrate and pay tribute to the patron saint that Catholics call the Queen of Mexico and the Empress of the Americas.
Los Angeles is the second city with the largest of population of …

 
Los Angeles is home to one of the most diverse populations in the world. The largest number of people in the city is of Latino origin. But there are many ethnic groups within Latin-American culture. Like the enclave of Zapotec villagers from Southern Mexico who have migrated to LA’s Koreatown. KCRW’s Sonic Trace series has been focusing on Zapotecs who come from the tiny village …

Los Angeles is home to one of the most diverse populations in the world. The largest number of people in the city is of Latino origin.  But there are a lot of different ethnic groups within Latin-American culture.  Like the enclave of Zapotec villagers from Southern Mexico who have migrated to LA’s Koreatown.  We’ve been focusing on migrants, who come from the tiny village of Santa Maria Tavehua.
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Santa Maria Tavehua is a tiny village in the hillsides of southern Mexico.  They are known for their ceramic arts made from an indigenous orange clay.  For centuries, the people of Tavehua made pots and plates, cups and bowls to barter and trade among themselves.  In the modern economy, their work shifted to decorative pieces, specifically these little bunnies playing instruments.  In recent decades, …

Since the 1970s, Los Angeles has become a hub for Mexico’s indigenous Zapotecs – a culture that predates the Spanish conquest of the Americas. All week, Sonic Trace is exploring the connection between Santa Maria Tavehua, a tiny village in the hillsides of southern Mexico, and L.A.’s Koreatown – where more than half the village now lives. This is a story is about putting down roots. …

Since the 1970s, Los Angeles has become a hub for Mexico’s indigenous Zapotecs – a culture that predates the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Sonic Trace has launched a five-part series that explores the connection between Santa Maria Tavehua, a tiny village in the hillsides of southern Mexico, and L.A.’s Koreatown – where more than half the village now lives. In this story, we hear from …

One of the goals of Sonic Trace is to find stories that are local to both Los Angeles and Mexico. The recent Mexican presidential election was one such story. As producers, we wanted to explore the election in a way that was timely, relevant and not boring for KCRW’s LA audience. We wanted to explain Mexican democracy, and the importance of being invested in …

Yesterday was election day in Mexico and as expected, the party that had ruled the country for 71 years, was reinstated and PRI candidate Enrique Peña Nieto will be the next president.
Sonic Trace producer Anayansi Diaz Cortes was in Santa Maria Tavehua, Oaxaca, Mexico on voting day. There are about 236 residents currently living there, yet only 70 of them are eligible voters. On …

We met Luis earlier this month when he began his journey to figure out why the Mexican election should matter to him — an undocumented teenager living in Los Angeles. Luis was born in Mexico, but came to LA as a baby and feels more American than Mexican. On today’s “To the Point” we heard Luis’ story.
The election is this weekend in Mexico and …

President Obama stunned the nation last week by announcing that some undocumented workers brought here when they were children will not be deported. Few places will be as deeply affected as Southern California. How selective is the process, and what are the rules? Are they unfair to native born citizens in the same age group? Also, the apparently accidental drowning of Rodney King, the …

On July 1, millions of Mexicans will cast their ballots for their country’s next president. Whoever is elected will face a witch’s brew of challenges, from navigating Mexico’s place in the global economy to waging a conflict against increasingly violent drug cartels, who have killed thousands in the last several years.
Here’s my conversation with Warren Olney about how complicated it is to vote in …

CalPERS and CalSTRS, the two largest U.S. public pension funds in the country, have announced they’ll withhold their support for Walmart directors in an upcoming shareholder meeting. 
The two pension funds represent California’s public employees and state teachers. The move comes in response to allegations of widespread corruption and bribery at the company’s Mexico operations.
Five New York City pension funds earlier this month said they …

Sonic Trace– part of KCRW’s Independent Producer Project– is a multimedia project and radio series  bringing you stories that explore the three age-old questions about community and immigration in Los Angeles.
¿Por qué te fuiste? ¿Por qué te quedaste? ¿Por qué regresaste?
Why do people leave? Why do others stay? And, what makes people go back (in either direction)?
Sonic Trace is a story-telling and documentary experiment produced …

Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes has died. He was 83.
Fuentes was a giant of Latin American literature. On the level of Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Julio Cortazar. His plays, short stories, and over a dozen novels were loved throughout Latin America, and the world.
His novel “The Old Gringo” was the first book by a Mexican novelist to become a best seller in …

A strong earthquake shook through southern Mexico today at 12:02 local time. Buildings rolled, plaster fell from ceilings and a bridge collapsed, but there was no major damage reported, according to the Associated Press.  Below, we’ve embedded the Storify page put together by The Washington Post with a roundup of photos, videos and Tweets. Malia Obama was in Oaxaca, Mexico on a school …