Sanampay. Yesterday, Today & Always.
In 1977, almost half a century ago, one of the most popular groups in Latin American folk and nueva canción was formed in Mexico, giving a new dimension to Andean music.
Culture
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El Buen Cine, Mexico City’s DVD Store Holding its Own Against Streaming & Gentrification
For over 15 years, a space for film buffs and the curious has been one of the last DVD stores in Mexico City.
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Mexico’s Cineteca Nacional Workers to Strike Tomorrow
In February, workers held a symbolic strike, demanding an end to reprisals and labor exploitation, as well as the payment of fair wages.
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Multiplying the Readers
Government agencies and sectors of civil society can, and indeed should, contribute to building more and better opportunities that normalize the appeal of reading.
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Cine Mujer Collective Celebrates Sisterhood as Resistance in ‘Rebeladas’ Documentary
In the late 1970s, amidst a patriarchal society, the Cine Mujer Collective emerged, feminist filmmakers who found in cinema the ideal political tool to denounce gender problems that defined Mexican society at the time.
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“Dignified wages are not concessions: they are constitutional rights” – Striking Cultural Workers Respond to Mexico’s Cultural Secretariat
2,000 workers have been paid below Mexico’s national minimum wage for over two years, violating the law.
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Workers Occupy Culture Secretariat, Demand 13% Wage Increase
2,000 workers have been receiving incomes below Mexico’s minimum wage for over two years.
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Mexico Grants Official Protection to Pulque from Tlaxcala
The alcoholic beverage of pre-Hispanic origin is obtained from the heart of the maguey leaves and is made from the fermentation of the mucilage.
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UNAM Launches Muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros Exhibit
The exhibition Siqueiros, Imprisoning the Flame will combine his writings, state records and photographs, and will open on February 4.
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Greater Palestine Raises its Voice & Brings Visibility to the Gaza Genocide
The film, by Rafael Rangel and Mahmoud M. Zaqout and in close collaboration with 12 Palestinian photographers, exposes the human cruelty of imperialism against the Palestinian nation.
