BIG LATIN NEWS - POSTED ON 2.28.21 Constanzo fue bautizado por la religión católica y laboró como monaguillo, pero también acompañó a su madre a viajes a Haití para aprender sobre el vudú haitiano (Fotoarte: Steve Allen)Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo…
© Antonio N. Zavaleta A Abad, V., Ramos, J., & Boyce, E.,1974, “A Model for Delivery of Mental Health Services to Spanish-speaking Minorities,” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 44, 584-595. Abbot, N.C., White, A.R, & Ernst, E. 1996, Complimentary medicine,…
During the second half of the twentieth century, health care delivery systems paid only lip service to Latino populations and their special needs. Latino populations have culturally based belief systems, which pose special challenges to the health care delivery system.…
By Mitchell A. Kaplan PhD, Studies in Rio Grande Valley History, Vol. 17, 2020 Introduction Why Immigration Matters in the United States Since the birth of our nation, more than two centuries ago, the United States has been a country…
By Francesco Gervasi, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila El objetivo y la justificación de la investigación El propósito de este artículo es presentar un primer acercamiento al análisis de los datos de una investigación que se enfoca en las formas de …
By David G. Bromley & Elizabeth Phillips EL NIÑO FIDENCIO TIMELINE 1898 (October 17): José de Jesús Fidencio Constantino Síntora was born in Guanajuato, Mexico. 1910-1920: The Mexican Revolution took place. 1917: The Constitution of Mexico was used to restrict…
Introducción Por siglos la humanidad ha participado en la ingestión de plantas con propiedades que alteran la mente como una vía para comunicarse con el mundo de lo sobrenatural. La ingestión de las plantas sacramentales llamadas los enteógenos era una…
Introduction For centuries humanity has engaged in the ingestion of plants with mind-altering properties as a pathway to communicate with the world of the supernatural. The ingestion of sacramental plants called entheogens was a common practice in the ancient Mayan…
By John Burnett and Marisa Penaloza Over the past 41 years, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been buying up land on the lower Texas-Mexico border to protect one of the most biologically diverse regions in North America from…
Antonio N. Zavaleta, Ph.D. and Mitchell A. Kaplan Ph.D. For five hundred years, Indigenous-American and Afro-Caribbean religious beliefs have mixed with highly superstitious sixteenth-century Spanish Roman Catholic beliefs and practices. The emergent ‘combined’ religions are most notably Mexican Brujería, Santeria…
