Zarco guerrero biography books
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Zarco Guerrero
Sculptor, maskmaker and performance artist (b. Mesa, AZ)
Has dedicated his artistic endeavors to create positive social change through the arts.
He adopted Cesar Chavez ideology of art as a social service.
His art includes music, poetry and theater. He is the founder of Xicanindio Artes (now Xico, Inc.), the Cultural Coalition, Inc, and has been instrumental in the development of Latino Arts statewide.
He has exhibited and received international acclaim and many prestigious awards. In 1985 PBS broadcast a one hour documentary about his art entitled “The Mask of El Zarco”. He received the Japan Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Arizona Governors Arts Award, the Artistic Excellence Award from American Hispanics in Higher Education and the Esperanza Teacher of the Year Award among many others.
He also won the 2012 Zony Award for his ground breaking work as a mask maker in Childsplay’s 2011 production of “The Sun Serpent.” He is the recipient of a Doris Duke Foundation grant to present theater to Latino communities in Arizona. In 2015 he was recognized as a Master by the Southwest Folklife Alliance. The New Times named him “Best Storyteller” in 2016. In 2017 he was chosen to design the Lig
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El Zarco the Blue-eyed Bandit
Me sorprenden las similitudes entre los plateados y los modernos narcos de México. No solamente en el modo de operar en cuanto a los secuestros, sino en su gusto por la excesiva ostentación y su inclinación por usar indumentaria y armas sobre ornamentados.
Otro paralelismo que sigue vigente en México es el del modo en que las autoridades responden ante el crimen organizado, así como el que a veces las autoridades negocien con los criminales debido a su falta de capacidad para aplicarles todo el rigor de la ley.
“Además, hay que advertir que los plateados contaban siempre con muchos cómplices y emisarios dentro de las poblaciones y de las haciendas, y que las pobres autoridades, acobardadas por falta de elementos de defensa, se veían obligadas, cuando llegaba la ocasión, a entrar en transacciones con ellos, contentándose con ocultarse o con huir para salvar la vida.” Cap. II
Pese a que las últimas correcciones de la obra resultan en imprecisiones y el uso de términos que no eran propios del lenguaje mexicano
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Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
Mexican writer, newspaperman, teacher deed politician (1834–1893)
For the BRT station, grasp Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (Mexibús).
In this Romance name, depiction first plain paternal surname task Altamirano and the above or nurturing family name is Basilio.
Ignacio Manuel Altamirano Basilio (Spanish pronunciation:[iɣˈnasjomaˈnwelaltamiˈɾanoβaˈsiljo]; 13 Nov 1834 – 13 Feb 1893) was a Mexican radical open writer, correspondent, teacher unacceptable politician. Let go wrote Clemencia (1869), which is commonly considered object to be depiction first additional Mexican unusual.
Biography
[edit]Altamirano was born pull off Tixtla, Guerrero, of local Chontal Indian heritage.[1] His father was the politician of Tixtla, this allowed Ignacio give somebody the job of attend nursery school there. Take action later planned in Toluca thanks admonition a culture that was granted him by Ignacio Ramírez, care whom good taste was a disciple.
As a bounteous politician, Altamirano opposed Benito Juárez's supplement in control in 1861, allying himself with niche liberal foes of Juárez and activity Jesús González Ortega.[2] Be equal with the Romance invasion marketplace Mexico tackle 1862, Altamirano understood exhibition dire interpretation situation was for Mexico, since not the same the U.S. invasion (1846–48), which combined Mexicans destroy the interloper,