Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria Parker is to participate in FESTIBA, the Festival of International Books and Arts. The Corpus Christi native and Texas A&M Kingsville will speak at UTPA on the evening of March 27. Also, Longoria has produced a video to promote the Census. Click here to watch the video.
Reynosa, Mexico, is home to people from at least 40 nations, reports Notimex's Blanca Zumaya. Pictured above are children at the Oxford Institute in Reynosa. The school is attended by Mexicans of several states, including Sonora and Coahuila, plus a Canadian, a native of Houston and a Venezuelan. Full story
The role telenovelas play in stereotyping Hispanic women was discussed at a Women’s History Month event at STC. Alborada depicts life around the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Full story
Laredo Mayor Raul Salinas says hello to U.S. Border Patrol Associate Chief Marcos Garcia, who was once stationed in Laredo, while at a meeting at the CBP headquarters in Washington, D.C. Laredo leaders have spent a week in the nation’s capital.
With Census Day just a few weeks away, Texas finally has a point person to coordinate the state’s push for complete participation in Census 2010 by its residents. On Tuesday, Gov. Rick Perry named Secretary of State Hope Andrade the Texas Census Ambassador.
It starts when you sit down with your mother, your aunt and your grandmother to watch telenovelas (Spanish language soap operas). Then you get hooked. At a Women's History Month event at STC, Dr. Petra Guerra warned the audience against the dangers of watching too many telenovelas.
Reynosa, es una de las ciudades fronterizas con mayor diversidad cultural en el país ya que alberga entre su población a residentes provenientes de más de 40 países del mundo. Ellos decidieron radicar en la zona atraídos por su acelerado crecimiento económico y cercanía con Estados Unidos.
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