FIVE POWERFUL WOMEN WHO SHAPED MEXICAN CULTURE
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Learn How Catholic Mexicans Still Celebrate Lent In The 21st Century
By Alvaro Ramírez As a kid in a small town in Michoacan, I learned that Lent is the forty-day period that follows the first full moon after the Spring equinox when Catholics reaffirm their faith by way of ritual, abstinence, and penance. As a little kid growing up in a small town in Michoacán, I was always intrigued by the meaning
Read moreTHE HALLUCINATING HISTORY OF LA VIRGEN, LA MALINCHE, AND SOR JUANA
By: Dr. Alvaro Ramírez Saint Mary’s College of California In the Labyrinth of Solitude (1950), Octavio Paz argues that to understand Mexico we need to return to its violent origins in the Spanish conquest and the Colonial Period of 1521-1821. The Nobel Prize-winning author draws attention to two women: La Virgen de Guadalupe and La Malinche, who supposedly offer the key to
Read moreThe Ties Between ‘Roma’ And ‘Y Tu Mamá También’ You Overlooked
In his mesmerizing new film, ‘Roma’, Alfonso Cuarón returns to ‘Y tu mamá también’ to pick up the story of the indigenous mothers who raise the children of the middle class and rich Mexicans, a story that has yet to be fully explored in Mexican cinema. By Dr. Alvaro Ramírez, Professor at Saint Marys College of California. There
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