Hispanic Heritage Month Events

Below are some amazing events the University as well as people in the Pittsburgh are holding as part of Hispanic Heritage Month. If you have any questions or comments feel free to email SALSA at cmusalsa@gmail.com.

 

Los Valientes

Tuesday, October 9

Kresge Theater, CFA

7 pm

Dessert Reception to follow in the CFA Lobby

Free Ticketed Event

(Tickets Available beginning 09/27/12 at Info Desk or to RSVP for tickets please

call 412.268.2075 or email M. Shernell Smith at

mssmith@andrew.cmu.edu<mailto:mssmith@andrew.cmu.edu>)

Los Valientes (The Courageous Ones) is a live music theatre work for singing actor

and onstage music trio of cello, piano and percussion. Based on the lives of three

heroic Latinos, the show celebrates Mexican painter Diego Rivera, martyred

Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, and Mexican-American outlaw Joaquin Murrieta -

some say the Zorro character was based on this historical figure. The music ranges

from traditional Latino folk and popular songs sung in Spanish to instrumental works

by Latin American composers.

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Hispanic-Latino Alumni Association Popcorn Reception

Saturday, October 6

2-4pm

General Motors Dining Room, University Center

Free for students

$5 for adults

Hosted by the Hispanic-Latino Alumni Association with support of the Latino Graduate

Student Association

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City Council Post Agenda on Latino Community Relations in Pittsburgh

Tuesday, October 2 at 2pm

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University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Hispanic Community: A Focus on Healthcare

Wednesday, October 3

>From 6:30 to 8:30pm

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Fair in Market Square

Come celebrate our City's Hispanic culture by enjoying performances from local

artists and visiting vendors in Market Square

Friday, October 5

>From noon to 8pm

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2012 Pittsburgh Latino Heritage Cup

6 vs 6 Tournament 

Saturday, October 6 and Sunday, October 7

Tournament begins Saturday at 10am

Schenley Park Oval

Minimum 6 players

No sign up fee!

To register, contact Councilman Lavelle's office

By phone: 412-255-2134; By email: pghdistrict6@gmail.com

Entry deadline: October 3

Presented by Mayor Luke Ravenstahl & Councilman R. Daniel Lavelle

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Thank you

Crismely Pena

 

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Spanish And Latin Student Association
Carnegie Mellon University
UC 303

Please join us for the University of Pittsburgh's Hispanic Heritage Celebration 2012: A Focus on Healthcare on 10/3/12-2500 Posvar Hall

 

Please join us for the University of Pittsburgh’s Hispanic Heritage

Celebration 2012: A Focus on Healthcare

 

“Providing Health Care for an Invisible Community: Salud Para Niños Celebrating 10 Years of Service”     

by Diego Chaves-Gnecco, MD, Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Director

and Founder Salud Para Niños, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

 

“De la Mano con la Salud”: A Network of Latino Men”

by Patricia Documet, MD, DrPH, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health

 

The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. in 2500 Posvar Hall, on the Oakland Campus of the University of Pittsburgh

 

Refreshments to follow. Free and open to the community.

For more information contact: Karen Goldman at kgoldman@pitt.edu or Kannu Sahni at ksahni@pitt.edu

 

Sponsors:

Office of Community Relations, University of Pittsburgh

Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh

Mayor’s Office, City of Pittsburgh

 

[Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at Pitt] Nueva invitación a un evento: University of Pitts...

Luz Amanda invitó al grupo para el evento University of Pittsburgh's Hispanic Heritage Celebration 2012: A Focus on Healthcare que tendrá lugar el El miércoles, 3 de octubre a la(s) 18:30.

 

CMU: Noche Latina this Friday

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Buenas,

 

    In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, SALSA and SHPE are helping host a hispanic/latin themed late night. Noche Latina is going to be this Friday 9pm-12am at the UC black chairs. There is going to be a live band,  games, Spanish food and most importantly there are going to be lots of Hispanic/Latino students there. I know most of that most of my friends met their closest friends during Noche Latina.

 

    If you are interested in getting involved please send an email to eurena@andrew.cmu.edu. We are going to need help with setting and cleaning up, so if you are free and have nothing to do this Friday come and have fun.

 

    If you have further questions please feel  free to email me at cpena@andrew.cmu.edu.

 

Thank you

 

Crismely Pena

 

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Carnegie Mellon University
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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage: Upcoming Events at CMU

 

Noche Latina:  Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

Friday, September 28^th

9 pm

University Center Wean/Kirr Commons

 

Join us for fun, food, and salsa dancing!  Mix and mingle and win prizes!  Hasta pronto!

Featuring the live band Azucar!

 

Hosted by Student Affairs & CMARC with support from SHPE, SALSA and the Latino Graduate Student Association!

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Los Valientes

Tuesday, October 9

Kresge Theater, CFA

7 pm

Dessert Reception to follow in the CFA Lobby

Free Ticketed Event

(Tickets Available beginning 09/27/12 at Info Desk or to RSVP for tickets please call 412.268.2075 or email M. Shernell Smith at mssmith@andrew.cmu.edu)

 

Los Valientes (The Courageous Ones) is a live music theatre work for singing actor and onstage music trio of cello, piano and percussion. Based on the lives of three heroic Latinos, the show celebrates Mexican painter Diego Rivera, martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, and Mexican-American outlaw Joaquin Murrieta - some say the Zorro character was based on this historical figure. The music ranges from traditional Latino folk and popular songs sung in Spanish to instrumental works by Latin American composers.

 

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“Latinos in/on Film” Festival 2012

Every Week in Porter Hall 100 @ 7:30 pm

Sponsored by the Latin American Cultural Union

 

 Thursday, September 20th

“…y no se lo tragó la tierra” (Severo Pérez, 1995, United States). This landmark of Chicano cinema is an adaptation of Tomas Rivera’s 1971 novel of the same title. Told from the perspective of Marcos, the 12-year-old son of migrant Mexican-American farm workers, the film follows their travels over the course of a year, each of its 12 sections linked to a month of the calendar. The family starts off in Texas at the beginning of harvest season. Their hardscrabble journey takes them across the length and breadth of the Midwest (NY Times)

 

Wednesday, September 26th

“El Súper” (León Ichaso, 1979, United States). A slice of life look at Roberto and Aurelia, Cuban exiles living in New York City with their 17-year-old daughter Aurelita. It is based on Ivan Acosta’s play of the same title. It’s February, 1978; the winter is harsh, and for ten years Roberto’s been the super of an apartment building, firing up the boiler, repairing windows, moving bags of garbage. He’s homesick for Cuba, stuck in repetitive conversations about the Bay of Pigs, Castro, and life back home (IMDb).

 

Wednesday, October 3rd

“La guagua aerea” (Luis Molina Casanova, 1993, Puerto Rico ). Humorous but poignant chronicle of a particular kind of diaspora situation in which Puerto Ricans have been increasingly involved since the 1960s, and which consists of an incessant switching back and forth between the island and the United States. The ‘airbus,’ with its constant commuting between these two locations, traverses carefully guarded national airspaces, carrying people, identities, symbols and languages horizontally across nations (The Commuting Island).

 

Saturday, October 6th

“Nueba Yol” (Angel Muñiz, 1995, Dominican Republic)

An immigrant struggles to make a new life in New York City, the Dominican Republic. Amiable, big-hearted Balbuena, grieving over the recent demise of his much loved wife, decides he needs a change and so listens to the exciting pie-in-the-sky talk of his buddy Fellito who suggest that Balbuena leave the island and move to Nueba Yol (Dominican slang for the Big Apple). (Rotten Tomatoes)

 

Friday, October 12th

“A Day Without a Mexican” (Sergio Arau, 2004, United States) “A Day Without a Mexican” ponders the potentially catastrophic results that would occur if California-based Mexicans, who make up over a third of the state’s population, were to suddenly disappear. A series of characters show the apparent statistical impact of Mexicans on California’s economy, law enforcement and education systems as well as the resulting social unrest. (IMDb)

 

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Vengan a la última presentación de Machete...

Geña Música 26 de Septiembre de 2012 0:57 Vengan a la última presentación de Machete Kisumontao con nuestro gran amigo Lars Cleath! Es la última oportunidad de ver a Machete Kisumontao tocando canciones tradicionales de Puerto Rico y mas alla, con nuestro grupo original que incluye a el magnífico trompetista Lars Cleath! Phat Man Dee & the Cultural District with Geña & Machete Kisumontao! El Viernes a la(s) 21:00 en Thunderbird cafe

 

FW: CLAS Weekly Update

Center for Latin American Studies

Upcoming Events

 

 

Lectures, Symposiums & Workshops

 

Anabranching patterns in large rivers: state of the art and clues from the tropics, a lecture by Dr. Edgardo M. Latrubesse (Geomorphology & Environment, The University of Texas at Austin)

Recently I proposed a new category of “very large” rivers: mega-rivers, which are those rivers with a Q_mean of more than ~17,000m³/s and this category includes the nine largest rivers on Earth. They are the Amazon, Congo, Orinoco, Yangtze, Madeira, Negro, Brahmaputra, Japura and Parana. As noted, six of the largest rivers of the world in water discharge are located in South America (four of them in the Amazon basin) and twenty four of the thirty four largest tropical rivers of the world also are located in South America (eighteen of them in the Amazon basin). Such big rivers are few in number but spectacular in size. Considering the importance of large rivers and river floodplains to a range of global-scale ecological issues, such as sediment flux, carbon sequestration, and water resources, this represents a significant problem for river management. Indeed, most of the runoff on Earth is transported by a few very large rivers, with ~16 to 20% of the runoff discharge by the Amazon. Over the past two decades, there has been a growing appreciation of the distinctiveness and importance of anabranching rivers and slowly the interest on large tropical rivers also have been increasing. When applying the concept of a channel pattern continuum to large rivers I obtained a surprisingly result: the universal end member pattern for large alluvial rivers is anabranching. There is not any river in the world with mean annual discharge larger than 17000 m3/s capable of maintaining a relatively pure “braided” or meandering pattern. I discuss in this presentation the state of the art on anabranching channel characteristics and classifications as well as the morphological-morphodynamics processes that generate anabranching patterns in large rivers.

Date: Friday, September 2012

Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Location: 319 Benedum Hall, Swanson School of Engineering

For more information: please contact J. Abad (jabad@pitt.edu, 412-624-4399)

Sponsored by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

 

Becoming Mexico: Culture, Politics and the Imagined Americas, a symposium organized by Joshua Lund (Hispanic Languages & Literatures) and Gayle Rogers (English)

Despite extended periods of political continuity, Mexico has traditionally been imagined as a space of instability. Mexican philosophers, poets, scholars, and statesmen have long reflected on the idea of Mexico as potential not yet realized, at once utopian and dystopian, an identity always in formation. The ambivalence of this cultural energy is intensified in the US context, where Mexico functions as a key referent in an astounding variety of culture wars.

In the terms of these debates, and all of the fear and desire that they imply, “Mexico,” the geopolitical space, becomes “Mexicanization,” a geocultural process of transformation: a potentially disruptive force that can weigh against an imagined purity of an exceptional American identity, or stand as a source of creative and economic renewal. What is the history of the idea of Mexico? “Becoming Mexico” reflects on this question through an interdisciplinary symposium featuring four speakers:

• Abraham Acosta (Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona)
• Maria del Pilar Blanco (Lecturer in Latin American Literature and Culture, Spanish and Latin American Studies, University College London, University of Oxford)
• Gregory Downs (Associate Professor, Department of History, The City College of New York, CUNY).
• Nicole Guidotti-Hernández (Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, and Associate Director, Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin)

This event is free and open to the public

Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012

Time: 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Location: Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh

For more information: please contact Joshua Lund (jkl7@pitt.edu) or Gayle Rogers (grogers@pitt.edu)

Sponsored by University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Latin American Studies, Humanities Center, Cultural Studies Program, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Department of English, Department of English Literature Program, Department of History, and the Global Studies Center

 

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Student Club Activities

 

Pitt Linguistics Club

Yinzling Foreign Film Night featuring “The Motorcycle Diaries”

In 1952, twenty-three year old medical student Ernesto Guevara de la Serna - Fuser to his friends and later better known as 'Ernesto Che Guevara' - one semester away from graduation, decides to postpone his last semester to accompany his twenty-nine year old biochemist friend 'Alberto Granado' - Mial to his friends - on his four month, 8,000 km long dream motorcycle trip throughout South America starting from their home in Buenos Aires. Their quest is to see things they've only read about in books about the continent on which they live, and to finish that quest on Alberto's thirtieth birthday on the other side of the continent in the Guajira Peninsula in Venezuela. Not all on this trip goes according to their rough plan due to a broken down motorbike, and a continual lack of money. (Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna. 2004, Color, rated R, Spanish w/ English Subtitles)

Date: Thursday, September 20, 2012

Time: 8:30 p.m.

Location: 216 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh

For more information: please contact Felicia Beadle, fab23@pitt.edu

 

Brazil Nuts Portuguese Club

Bate-Papo

Bate-Papo is our “Conversation Table” where you can speak about various topics and meet people with similar interests or just enjoy speaking in Portuguese. And the most important thing to remember is that people of any level can come to talk—the only requirement is that you want to have fun and chat! You can speak about anything you wish! See you at Bate-Papo!

Date & Time: Every Wednesday, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Location: Room 538, William Pitt Union, University of Pittsburgh

For more information: please contact Felicia Beadle, fab23@pitt.edu

 

Spanish Club

Conversation Tables/Mesas de Conversación

Spanish Conversation Tables for all levels. It's a great way to practice Spanish with native speakers and students alike—and you can have a coffee or tea on us!

Dates & Times: Every Tuesday at 4:00–5:30 p.m., and every Wednesday at 7:00–8:30 p.m.

Location: Panera Bread, 3800 Forbes Avenue, Oakland

For more information: please contact Margaret Haughney (PittSpanishClub@gmail.com)

 

Noche del Cine featuring “Hercules” (in Spanish)

Date: Thursday, September 20, 2012

Time: 8:00 p.m.

Location: William Pitt Union (Room TBD)

For more information: please contact Margaret Haughney (PittSpanishClub@gmail.com)

Light refreshments will be served

 

Volunteer with Building New Hope

Building New Hope works with worker-owned coffee bean farms in Nicaragua and ensures that the coffee they sell is organic and fairly traded.

Volunteers will spend the afternoon by helping pack and deliver the product to customers.

Date: Sunday, September 23, 2012

Time: 1:00-3:00 p.m.

Location: meet in front of Hillman Library at 12:30 p.m. to together travel by bus to the actual location (5827 Forbes Ave, Commonplace Coffee, Sq. Hill)

For more information: please contact Margaret Haughney (PittSpanishClub@gmail.com)

 

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Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellowships

The Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame seeks both accomplished and promising scholars whose work and presence will promote interdisciplinary international research on the Institute’s core themes.

These visiting fellowships afford the time to move a research project forward in an intellectually stimulating environment, share findings, and develop linkages with renowned US and international scholars.

For more information: please visit http://kellogg.nd.edu/vfellowships/fellowships.shtml

 

PittMAP 2013

Application deadline is Friday, September 28^th!

An around the world, semester-long globally comparative and academically rigorous study abroad program with Pitt professors and those from leading institutions in Brazil, India, and China. The focus for the Spring 2013 PittMAP is Global Political Economy. Professors David Bartholomae (English), Michael Goodhart (Political Science), and local faculty will teach Professional Writing in Global Contexts, Global Justice, and Comparative Economic Systems. Students will also choose one or two electives. Site visits in Beijing, Hyderabad, and Florianopolis will enhance classroom learning.

For more information: please visit http://www.abroad.pitt.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10002 or contact Vanessa Sterling at 412-624-2033 or vmsst4@pitt.edu

 

“World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship” Research Grant Competition

The annual competition supports Ph.D. dissertation research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, strategic studies, area studies, and diplomatic and military history. The foundation will award up to twenty grants of $7,500 each. The deadline for submission is October 17, 2012, and the results will be announced by February 8, 2013.

For more information: please visit http://www.srf.org/grants/international.php

Sponsored by the Smith Richardson Foundation

 

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NOTICE

The following list of events is provided as a service to the community by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), University of Pittsburgh. CLAS neither recommends nor endorses these events and activities. Please address questions or comments about the events to the contact provided and not to the Center.

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Annual Hispanic/Latino Car Seat Check & Free Pediatric and Immunization Clinic)

Washington County

Date: Sunday, September 23, 2012

Time: 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Location: Holy Rosary Church, 1 Orchard Street, Muse PA 15350

Appointment Required

 

Oakland

Date: Sunday, October 28, 2012

Time: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Location: Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Primary Care Center, 3414 Euler Way, Pittsburgh

Appointment Required

For more information on these two events: 412-692-6000 (option 8)

 

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Second Annual Meeting of Hispanic Women in Pittsburgh: VIVAN LAS MUJERES

The second Meeting of Latino Women will be held on September 29, 2012, at 10:30 a.m., to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. The event, organized by Patricia Galetto, will take place in the Auditorium of Magee Women’s Hospital (Level 0 of the Hospital, 300 Halket Street, Oakland, Pittsburgh).

As requested by surveyed Latino women, leading bilingual medical experts will gather for a round table discussion on “Depression and Coexisting Diseases”. Following the conference, there will be a Breast Health Fair with medical professionals, sponsored by Magee Womancare International.

Afterwards, we invite you for a reception and a fashion show of unique local products designed by Latino women in Pittsburgh. Free Admission. Please confirm your attendance before September 20^th by email to patriciagaletto@hotmail.com or by phone at 412-683-0757

 

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Latinos in/on Film Festival

Sponsored by the Latin American Cultural Union

Come celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with us!

Dates: Every Thursday from September 20^th – October 12^th

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: 100 Porter Hall, Carnegie Mellon University

Upcoming Films:

September 20, 2012 – “y no se lo tragó la tierra” (Severo Pérez, 1995, USA)

September 26, 2012 – “El Súper” (León Ichaso, 1979, USA)

October 3, 2012 – “La guagua aérea” (Luis Molina Casanova, 1993, Puerto Rico)

October 6, 2012 – “Nueba Yol” (Angel Muñiz, 1995, Dominican Republic)

October 12, 2012 – “A Day Without a Mexican” (Sergio Arau, 2004, USA)

For more information: www.lacunet.org, academics@lacunet.org

 

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New Voter ID Law Information Session

Members of the community and Latino organizations are welcome to attend

Date: Monday, September 24, 2012

Time: 5:00 -7:00 p.m.

Location: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1910 Broadway Avenue, Beechview

 

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If you have an announcement related to a Latin American/Caribbean activity taking place that

you would like to share with others interested in the region, please send details

no later than Tuesday of the week prior to the event to:

Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh,

4200 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260;

Phone: 412 648 7392; Fax: 412 648 2199; E-mail: clas@pitt.edu

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Latino Film Festival

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September 15 marks the beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month which is the celebration of the histories and cultures of the spanish speaking countries. As part of Hispanic Heritage Month the Modern Languages Department at CMU is showing a wide range of movies from different countries. Below there are brief descriptions of the movies they  are presenting as well as a flyer. I hope you can all make it and join us in celebrating la cultura hispanic/latino.

Latinos in/on Film Festival 2012

 

Celebrate with us the Hispanic Heritage Month every week at 7:30PM

in Porter Hall 100 at CMU

*Thursday, September 20th*

*“…y no se lo tragó la tierra”* (Severo Pérez, 1995, United States).
 This landmark of Chicano cinema is an adaptation of Tomas Rivera's 1971
novel of the same title. Told from the perspective of Marcos, the
12-year-old son of migrant Mexican-American farm workers, the film follows
their travels over the course of a year, each of its 12 sections linked to
a month of the calendar. The family starts off in Texas at the beginning of
harvest season. Their hardscrabble journey takes them across the length and
breadth of the Midwest (NY Times)

*Wednesday, September 26th*
*“El Súper” (León Ichaso, 1979, United States).*
A slice of life look at Roberto and Aurelia, Cuban exiles living in New
York City with their 17-year-old daughter Aurelita. It is based on Ivan
Acosta’s play of the same title. It's February, 1978; the winter is harsh,
and for ten years Roberto's been the super of an apartment building, firing
up the boiler, repairing windows, moving bags of garbage. He's homesick for
Cuba, stuck in repetitive conversations about the Bay of Pigs, Castro, and
life back home (IMDb).

*Wednesday, October 3rd*
*“La guagua aerea” (Luis Molina Casanova, 1993, Puerto Rico ).*
Humorous but poignant chronicle of a particular kind of diaspora situation
in which Puerto Ricans have been increasingly involved since the 1960s,
and which consists of an incessant switching back and forth between the
island and the United States. The ‘airbus,’ with its constant commuting
between these two locations, traverses carefully guarded national
airspaces, carrying people, identities, symbols and languages horizontally
across nations (The Commuting Island).

*Saturday, October 6th*
*“Nueba Yol” (Angel Muñiz, 1995, Dominican Republic)*
An immigrant struggles to make a new life in New York City, the Dominican
Republic. Amiable, big-hearted Balbuena, grieving over the recent demise of
his much loved wife, decides he needs a change and so listens to the
exciting pie-in-the-sky talk of his buddy Fellito who suggest that Balbuena
leave the island and move to Nueba Yol (Dominican slang for the Big Apple).
(Rotten Tomatoes)

*Friday, October 12th*

*“A Day Without a Mexican” (Sergio Arau, 2004, United States)*
 “A Day Without a Mexican” ponders the potentially catastrophic results
that would occur if California-based Mexicans, who make up over a third of
the state's population, were to suddenly disappear. A series of characters
show the apparent statistical impact of Mexicans on California's economy,
law enforcement and education systems as well as the resulting social
unrest.