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In April, Maria Rivera stood in Mexico City's main square and read "Los Muertos," a poem that for one of the first times in public dared name those killed in the country's government and drug cartel violence war.
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I'd like to be there in a pre-dawn concert as a yet unborn jarana player plugs in his wood instrument and plays the Star Spangled Banner to welcome the new day.
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Let me tell you about the double shudder down the spine I had a few months ago: the Jewish-Mexican mother.
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Que lastima. So many bars, so small the liver.
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I know a few Chileans in Los Angeles. The first one I met was Joaquin Murieta.
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A very simple question seemed to follow me like a rain cloud last Friday. Are Chicanos outsiders anymore?
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"The NBC affiliate in Laredo, KGNS, had reels of old films and cartoons that they would throw on again and again and La Dolce Vita, was one of those movies."
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Inside a hilltop house in City Terrace a few months ago seven musicians recorded a son jarocho version of The Clash's "Straight to Hell."
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In the opening scene of the book "Down & Delirious" Daniel Hernandez is swept up by the masses of people in a Virgen de Guadalupe pilgrimage in Mexico City. Very Canterbury Tales.
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I Am Los Angeles: Strings of Success
Sasha is content just to be living his life on his own terms, doing something he thoroughly enjoys: building and playing guitars.
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