Archive for the 'Mexico' Category
A view from Mexico: El Presidente Obama — The Challenge of Change
0 Comments Published by Professor Les November 3rd, 2008 in Education, Salt Lake City, Mexico, Community Dialogue, Communication, Politics, Current Events.Editor’s Note: Mark Alvarez, a Salt Lake City attorney who’s been living in Mexico with his wife Lorena since the summer of 2007, offers an excellent observation about tomorrow’s presidential election from the vantage point of our southern neighbor.
Yesterday, November 2, Mexicans celebrated the Day of the Dead with sweet bread, sugar skulls and offerings […]
SLC Film Center to present La Ofrenda: The Days of The Dead
0 Comments Published by Professor Les October 30th, 2008 in Film, Salt Lake City, Mexico, Community Dialogue, Hispanic heritage, Communication.“In this Day of the Dead celebration, people mock death and gender and whatever else
needs a little push.” — La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead
A remarkably resilient 1988 hour-long documentary of the Days of the Dead celebrations ranging from small Mexican village Indian temples to San Francisco’s Mission District will be screened in a […]
SLC Film Center to screen documentary about children crossing US-Mexico border
0 Comments Published by Professor Les October 2nd, 2008 in Salt Lake City, Film, Mexico, Community Dialogue, Current Events.A documentary focusing on two children traveling through the Sonora Desert to cross the border between the United States and Mexico in order to reunite with their mothers in the Midwest will be screened in a free, public program Monday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. in the City Library Auditorium. Following the screening — which […]
