We introduce amateur photographer, Jose Angel Hinojosa of McAllen, Texas to our IberoAztlan audience. Jose Angel was born and raised in McAllen, Texas’ south side, in a neighborhood called El Barrio de la Hacha. Working many summers in the agricultural fields with his parents and grandparents, he decided at a very early age that he …
Pablo Picasso refused to sell his iconic moralistic portrayal of the Nazi and Spanish fascists’ bombardment of the City of Guernica, in April 26, 1937, to former New York Governor, Nelson Rockefeller. In 1955, Rockefeller had a tapestry of the painting woven and in 1984 he loaned it to the United Nations Security Council where …
In Hollywood’s 1943 rendition of Ernest Hemingway’s novel of the Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bells Toll (1940) we are treated to another of Hemingway’s portrayal of the adventurous, selfless Americano. The setting is sometime after the Republicans have lost their handle-hold on the Spanish government (1938-1939) and pro-Republican rebels are making a last-ditch, …
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