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American corporations will stop at nothing when marketing “Latin-inspired” food to my always-hungry people (i.e. The Hispanics.) The most recent example of this is Bush’s Beans Comida Latina, which features a product line of prepared beans –and hominy– just like our grandma … didn’t actually make.
This doesn’t look neither promising, nor appetizing you know?
Via: Amazon.com
So, Star Wars Episode IX is officially here –and regardless what you think of its new title (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, its presentation will go down in history thanks to the cutest Guatemalan in the room.
Watch as Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron) responds to a question about how to say Star Wars in Spanish.
It’s NOT Star Wars. It’s Estar Guars! pic.twitter.com/pfZIUQyIH0
— Laura Martínez (@miblogestublog) 12 de abril de 2019
I don’t know about you, but I’m off to go get a cold shower.
Hat tip: Dave Itzkoff
Former Texas congressman Robert “Beto” O’Rourke this week officially launched his presidential campaign Website but despite touting the slogan Beto for America that he uses for his English-language page, he decided to go for a combination of Beto para Estados Unidos and Beto para todos (Beto for Everyone) in the Spanish-language one.
And the reason for this, my friends, is simple: As I’ve been saying, like, forever, America, my friends, is not a country –at least not when you speak Spanish.
So, this is all great señor Beto, now … Where are the free donas?
Friendly reminder pic.twitter.com/tqUTOwgQMd
— Laura Martínez ®️ (@miblogestublog) 21 de junio de 2018
The 91st Academy Awards are tonight, my friends, and just in time for the big night, The New York Times decided to troll Mr. Trump in a not so subtle way, by highlighting the multiple wins and box office dollars brought to the table by Mexican directors and artists.
WATCH. ENJOY. REPEAT*
What are Mexicans doing in America?
If you’ve been watching the #Oscars lately, you might have noticed they’ve been winning. pic.twitter.com/hxs2FecUBu
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) 24 de febrero de 2019
Say what you will about Texas (and I say a lot of not-so-nice things) but Democratic congressman Beto O’Rourke not only has a reported 62 percent of the Latino vote in the Texas senate race (vs. Rafael “Ted” Cruz) but he’s like a fan of this blogger’s FAVORITE Mexican band ever. Yes, Los Tigres del Norte have endorsed Beto and Beto and Los Tigres are, like, BFFs now.
Heck! he even tweeted in Spanish, so I’m like, dying here.
Gracias por el apoyo de mis amigos Los Tigres del Norte! Los vemos esta noche en Bert Ogden Arena a las 7 PM! pic.twitter.com/Cu13XvcRjU
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) 18 de octubre de 2018
For the uninitiated, you can read this New Yorker profile of Los Tigres del Norte or simply click below. This is not the best video out there, but if you’re fortunate enough to understand Spanish, these lyrics are, like, WOW*…
Here’s my humble attempt to translate this song…
They already yelled at me a thousand times
That I must return to my land
Because there’s no room for me here
Well, I want to remind the gringo
I did not cross the border
The border crossed me
America was born free
It was men who divided it
They painted the line
For me to jump and now they call me an invader
It is a well-marked error
They stole eight states from us, who is here the invader?
I am a foreigner in my land
And I do not come to give them war
I am a hard worker
And if history doesn’t lie
Here he sat in the glory, the mighty nation
Among brave warriors
Indians from two continents, mixed with Spanish
And if we go to the centuries
We are more American
We are more American
That the son of Anglo-Saxon
And if the story does not lie
Here he sat in the glory, the mighty nation
I entered brave warriors
Indians from two continents, mixed with Spanish
And if it comes to centuries
We are more American
We are more American
That the sons of Anglo-Saxons
…. etc. etc. etc.
From the always-popular section Mexicans: How can anyone not like us? comes the world’s cutest sign ever, spotted by a Reddit user somewhere in Mexico, home of some of the most surreal (i.e. wondrous stuff I’ve ever seen.)
Still not sure Mexico is, like, the funnest place on Earth? Check out some of the following links:
… and/or just do me a favor and keep clicking on this blog every now and then will ya? I guarantee tons of diversión.
Photo via Reddit
Yes, the Chona Challenge –the Mexican version of the viral phenomenon in which a driver hops out of a vehicle and dances along while someone else films the action –is actually against the law, but that didn’t stop a Sonora police officer to join the fun.
According to the local press, Santa Ana Chief José Cruz Urbina, fully armed and in uniform embarked on a Chona Challenge for about 19 seconds –and judging from the video (below) it was, like, tons of fun!
Chicken BBQ –presumably.
Via: Reddit
I never go to Dallas (nor do I see any reason to do that) so I had no idea they had an IPA over there called El Chingón. But now that Constellation Brands has acquired Four Corners, makers of said IPA, we’ll be seeing this thing everywhere across the USA –pretty much like those pesky Hispanics.
And it all makes sense. See? Even when non-Hispanics keep calling the cops on our people for speaking Spanish and our own clown-in-chief insists on calling Mexicans rapists and awful, awful people, corporate America still LOVES the Hispanics.
And there’s a reason for that. According to data shared by Constellation Brands, Hispanics make up more than 17 percent of beer drinkers in the U.S. and the number of Hispanic people entering legal drinking age over the next decade is expected to grow 3 percent to a total of 46 million.
So, no matter how much they hate us and want to deport our butts back-to-where-we-came-from, when it comes to spending our dinerito, my people are still very very chingones.
Via. CNN.com
Mexico claimed their second win of the World Cup as they beat Korea on Saturday. Carlos Vela and Javier Hernández (aka Chicharito) put the goals that made an entire nation sing El Cielito Lindo in tandem. There were, of course, tons of Twitter reactions from my favorite tuiteros mexicanos. Here are some of my faves (though I’ll be updating this through the day.)
Cómprate un libro… pic.twitter.com/8h0DkadCnk
— Vampipe (@vampipe) 23 de junio de 2018
Ha llegado a tu TL el Santísimo Paco Memo compártelo para que sigamos en cero 🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/xyqsGUujTC
— Risco (@jrisco) 23 de junio de 2018
🚨 KICK-OFF!! #KORMEX is underway! 🚨
¡¡VAMOS MÉXICO!! ❤ ⚽ 👏🏻#NadaNosDetiene | #WorldCup | #MEX pic.twitter.com/FzmsBPPjCs
— Mexican National Team (@miseleccionmxEN) 23 de junio de 2018
bamos megico pic.twitter.com/Gvw2KTpcXL
— firulais (@dogsreaction) 23 de junio de 2018
Hubo un error en la Matrix y el Estadio Azteca se metió al Rostov Arena… #MexicoVsCorea pic.twitter.com/Wv08jXMRTk
— Sopitas (@sopitas) 23 de junio de 2018
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Ya me dio sed de tanto gritar los goles… de esa sed de la mala. pic.twitter.com/tcfo3HkJ4P
— Vampipe (@vampipe) 23 de junio de 2018
And just when I thought Thalía had retired and/or decided to dedicate her free time tending to her kids and her fancy Manhattan life and such, she has taken over my Twitter timeline to pitch her new reggaeton single.
Titled No me acuerdo (I Don’t Remember) this “thing” is a collaboration with Dominican singer Natti Natasha and it can be found on Spotify’s Latino Caliente playlist –because where else?
Go ahead and listen if you dare. It sounds exactly like what you’d expect from a Latino Caliente thing.
Ya pueden escuchar mi nueva canción #NoMeAcuerdo con @NattiNatasha en el #LatinoCaliente playlist de @AppleMusic. 💥💥💥 You can check out my new song #NMA with #NattiNatasha on the #LatinoCaliente playlist on #AppleMusic. Listen HERE:https://t.co/9bkRFuNkQW#Thalia #THNN pic.twitter.com/XjykWqErU2
— Thalia (@thalia) 2 de junio de 2018
Before you keep reading, take a wild guess: What do you think “Patio Agradable Perro” means?
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If you thought “Dog friendly patio,” Congratulations! You are truly bilingual!
Hat tip: @lechancle
… unlike racist New York lawyer Aaron Schlossberg, who once claimed to be “fluent in Spanish” but then went batshit crazy and threatened to call ICE on people speaking the language at his local deli.
Shame on you, Señor Schlossberg. You should learn from the fine lawyers of Spanish Harlem, who I’m sure are much more attuned to the sensibilities of a multicultural, multiethnic city –and the need for [true] bilingual professionals.
Photo: Laura Martínez, NYC 2018
Being Hispanic in the U.S. has become a sort of act of resistance for many of us. Not only because we have to deal with a president who launched his candidacy by calling Mexicans a bunch of rapists and criminals, but because that same presidency seems to be enabling all kinds of racist behavior towards “these people” (i.e. Latinos, Hispanics, Beaners or whatever you want to call “my people.”)
In one of the most recent of these episodes, a video went viral this week showing New York attorney Aaron Schlossberg verbally attacking deli employees for –wait for it– speaking Spanish. In Manhattan. At a deli. Imagine that!
In the video (which was first reported by Latino Rebels), we can see Schlossberg complaining aggressively to the deli’s management, saying “your staff is speaking Spanish to clients when they should be speaking English. Every person I listen to: he spoke it, he spoke it, she’s speaking it,” he says, pointing angrily at several people in the place.
The incident spread quickly across social media and made it eventually to the main media outlets, causing hilarious scenes where reporters were trying to interview Schlossberg just to see him running away as if someone had called La Migra on him.
Needless to say, Schlossberg’s tirade got Latinos very angry (and many reasonable non-Latinos, of course) but I’m happy to report that “my people” responded in the best way possible: By throwing him a Latin FIESTA right on his block, outside a posh apartment building on West 60th Street, in the heart of Manhattan.
The party, which took place on Friday, May 18, was organized by a group known as Millennials for Revolution on Facebook who invited people to show Schlossberg that speaking Spanish is not a crime and that “we will gladly educate you on our culture and language by throwing a big fiesta.”
And it was goooood!
It was only 5:30 pm but dozens of people were already gathered, listening to music, waving improvised signs and chanting things like Hablamos español! I don’t know exactly how, but I found myself joining the crowd dancing to some good ol’ Latin favorites: From Celia Cruz’ Quimbara, to Elvis Crespo’s Suavemente and –yes– several versions of Despacito. Ay!
The fiesta reached its peak when a mariachi band, organized through a GoFundMe page that has raised over $1,000, arrived on site and gave us some old time Mexican favorites, including a moving version of Cielito lindo, which had us all singing out loud.
I created the #AaronSchlossbergLatinParty hashtag on Twitter and was happy to see it was used by other users to help spread the love.
Click through this Twitter moment and ¡Que siga la fiesta!
⚡ We threw a Latin party for Aaron Schlossberg in Nueva York. It was awesome https://t.co/ocRglsnZV3 #AaronSchlossbergLatinParty pic.twitter.com/AHPTQbOxCG
— Laura Martínez ®️ (@miblogestublog) 19 de mayo de 2018
UPDATE: On Tuesday May 22, the racist lawyer used social media to apologize. The apology is lame and I don’t believe him, but here it is:
— AaronSchlossbergLaw (@ASchlossbergLaw) 22 de mayo de 2018
If you thought American politicians had run out of ideas to get rid of those pesky Mexicans, think again.
I give you The Deportation Bus, a moving campaign ad for GOP Georgia governor candidate Michael Williams, who is running on a promise of getting rid of all “those illegals.”
According to The Hill:
“We’re not just going to track them and watch them roam around our state,” Williams says. “We’re going to put them on this bus and send ‘em home.”
I mean, I’m not precisely an “illegal,” but given the current political here, a free ride back to Mexico doesn’t sound like a really bad idea right now.
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