tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79183762397018540102012-01-26T00:29:00.850-05:00Commentary from the perspective of an American LatinoGerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.comBlogger1275125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-53659835692129444422012-01-25T23:54:00.000-05:002012-01-26T00:29:00.855-05:002012-01-26T00:29:00.855-05:00Believe it or not, pero Cubans account for little more than a quarter (28%) of Florida's Latino population -- and shrinking! That is, 3 of 4 Floridian Latinos are now nonCuban. Puerto Ricans are the...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-3617622764970702812011-10-10T10:31:00.000-05:002011-10-10T10:31:51.682-05:002011-10-10T10:31:51.682-05:00by Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-56774539096118006942011-10-08T08:55:00.003-05:002011-10-10T10:34:39.001-05:002011-10-10T10:34:39.001-05:00“This is a war that’s been going on since the invasion of North America.” Rev. Pedro Pietri “With the ongoing Occupation movement on Wall Street and the growing occupation movements going on...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-67617263128341010132011-07-14T11:44:00.002-05:002011-07-14T11:45:43.291-05:002011-07-14T11:45:43.291-05:00From the Pew Hispanic Center... Births have surpassed immigration as the main driver of the dynamic growth in the U.S. Hispanic population. This new trend is especially evident among the largest of...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-51340742208844258982011-07-01T20:49:00.001-05:002011-07-01T21:03:59.147-05:002011-07-01T21:03:59.147-05:00On March 21, 1937 (Palm Sunday), a march was organized in Ponce, Puerto Rico, by the island's Nationalist Party. It was organized to commemorate the ending of slavery in Puerto Rico in 1873, and to...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-75554620864715928282011-06-28T08:58:00.000-05:002011-06-28T08:58:08.046-05:002011-06-28T08:58:08.046-05:00Raquel Z. Rivera is a singer-songwriter (Las 7 Salves de La Magdalena/7 Songs of Praise for The Magdalene), author (New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), editor of...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-67438949609874034282011-01-22T11:31:00.001-05:002011-01-22T11:41:04.891-05:002011-01-22T11:41:04.891-05:00Christopher Rios (November 10, 1971 – February 7, 2000), better known by his stage name Big Pun (short for Big Punisher), was a Puerto Rican rapper who emerged from the underground rap scene in...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-12894832597466791402011-01-16T13:53:00.002-05:002011-01-16T14:22:33.220-05:002011-01-16T14:22:33.220-05:00Quiara Alegría Hudes is an award-winning author of plays, musicals, screenplays and other literary works. Though her works are varied in style, she combines an intellectual curiosity with a...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-4723572046439417022011-01-01T17:33:00.001-05:002011-01-01T17:36:51.423-05:002011-01-01T17:36:51.423-05:00According to Google's nifty Ngram Viewer, use of the term 'Hispanic' in American English books peaked in the early 1990s and has been slipping ever since. In contrast,...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-74035945899529969562010-10-06T12:57:00.000-05:002010-10-06T12:57:19.551-05:002010-10-06T12:57:19.551-05:00Friends, colleagues, etc.. I read a very disturbing blog posting this morning and was hoping that with all of your respective outreach potential we can collectively spread the word to encourage our...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-25567073760845645012010-07-01T08:38:00.002-05:002010-07-01T10:00:08.759-05:002010-07-01T10:00:08.759-05:00JOIN THE LIVE CHATVISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOVGerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-87935676338361292232010-06-16T21:27:00.000-05:002010-06-16T21:27:50.915-05:002010-06-16T21:27:50.915-05:00In my new book, Ruins of a Society and the Honorable, I speak of the foreign invasions and injustices that plagued the islands of Puerto Rico. I speak of the injustice of my uncle Jose Pereira Torres...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-30416244698440405572010-02-08T23:35:00.000-05:002010-02-08T23:35:49.846-05:002010-02-08T23:35:49.846-05:00Puerto Rico is once again being shortchanged by the federal government. The U.S. Navy must provide compensation for risking the health of the people of Vieques. For 60 years, the Navy used...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-25676852426905604132010-02-07T00:14:00.000-05:002010-02-07T00:14:50.074-05:002010-02-07T00:14:50.074-05:00"It was a hot summer day in the city and many streets where blocked off due to the large crowds. Puerto Ricans from all over New York and New Jersey were making their way to Fifth Avenue with their...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-14708362380468246222010-02-04T10:20:00.000-05:002010-02-04T10:20:42.124-05:002010-02-04T10:20:42.124-05:00IT TOOK demonstrations, political pressure and perseverance for Latinos to break into the mainstream media in Philadelphia. There were no Latinos either in front of or behind the TV cameras,...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-53645849293826249432009-12-09T17:07:00.000-05:002009-12-09T17:07:21.452-05:002009-12-09T17:07:21.452-05:00Purchase your piece of paradise in Palmas Baja on Puerto Rico's south side. It was my parent's retirement home and can be yours for only $80,000 (US). The tropical home has 4 bedrooms, 2 full...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-32671142774695173262009-12-03T09:09:00.001-05:002009-12-03T09:12:32.143-05:002009-12-03T09:12:32.143-05:00"Saludos Familia: It is with great sadness and personal loss that I announce the death of un gran companero de lucha por los derechos de los puertorriquenos en EEUU/a great loss of a brother in...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-75799796613255507192009-11-24T20:00:00.000-05:002009-11-24T20:00:36.305-05:002009-11-24T20:00:36.305-05:00srikrishnajay... - There is a problem in the U.S. with the label Hispanic. - The problem is people are redefining the term. - The correct term for the label Hispanic; refers to those peoples of...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-38648683783706786012009-11-17T13:52:00.000-05:002009-11-17T13:52:07.580-05:002009-11-17T13:52:07.580-05:00Click the title link to see the full 116 photo "La Plata, Oct. 1944-Aug. 1947" collection by Dr. H. Clair Amstutz, a Mennonite medical missionary. These photos put images -- and in color -- to the...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-2468346283936751752009-11-17T02:37:00.005-05:002009-11-17T02:57:58.116-05:002009-11-17T02:57:58.116-05:00Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-44191952055911864762009-11-13T17:34:00.000-05:002009-11-13T17:34:51.417-05:002009-11-13T17:34:51.417-05:00“Frank [Espada]’s work is profoundly humanistic. Stereotypes about Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans are so deeply embedded in mainstream U.S. culture that even some Puerto Ricans have started to believe...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-68932183286090414842009-10-30T20:28:00.003-05:002009-10-30T20:36:52.752-05:002009-10-30T20:36:52.752-05:00This lovely photo montage captures what my parents shared w/me and my siblings through stories, song and traditions about life on the island in the '40s. It's quite emotional for those of us of the...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-81269290630413174732009-10-14T18:34:00.002-05:002009-10-14T18:37:34.208-05:002009-10-14T18:37:34.208-05:00Even the harshest Republican governors on the US mainland aren't pushing for the mass firing of govt workers, but the one in Puerto Rico is. Gov Luis Fortuño has already fired 20,000 govt workers,...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-3004693272476862662009-10-14T14:03:00.002-05:002009-10-14T14:10:51.163-05:002009-10-14T14:10:51.163-05:00Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-45244489628150661222009-10-08T13:49:00.007-05:002009-10-08T14:09:34.574-05:002009-10-08T14:09:34.574-05:00Producers of THE BORINQUENEERS today announced that their film has won the 2009 Orlando Hispanic Film Festival Audience Award. Congratulations! “Your film contributed to our great success and was...Gerry Vázquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com1