The story you are about to read is true; it details a personal fable based on Mayan-Huastecan folklore and my personal experiences as an anthropologist. To date, the story spans fifty years and has a life of its own, weaving…
I am very honored to have been invited to speak to you today, by my dear friends, The Honorable Rodolfo Quilantan and his wife Patricia Tapia Quilantan, Mexican Consul at Little Rock Arkansas and formerly at Brownsville, Texas. I have…
Texas Standard - By W.F. Strong, April 21, 2021 Don Pedrito never took credit for cures. He always said that he didn’t cure anybody. He was only God’s intermediary. My friend of many years, Tony Zavaleta, told me the following story:…
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…