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In this update, we note the content that is most relevant for the Chicano community. Mexicans should rejoice at Canelos most recent victory. Check out our related websites to see what is up in our Chicano world.
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Boxing fans will receive a treat this Saturday, May 1st 2021, during the PBC event and broadcast of the Ruiz vs Arreola fight. Fox’s PBC will have world reknowned boxer, Mikey Garcia (40-1), and Robert Garcia, world boxing champion and among the best boxing trainers in the world, as broadcasters for the event. Kate Abdo, Shawn “Showtime” Porter (33-3-1) will also be present during the broadcast.
Robert Garcia will handle the Spanish broadcast while Mikey Garcia will handle the English one alongside Abdo and Porter. No matter the outcome, most will appreciate the presence of these two exemplary boxers, who also happen to be Chicanos from Southern California.
On Instagram, Manny Pacquiao’s lawyer recently teased a possible showdown between welterweights Mikey Garcia and Manny Pacquiao (62–7–2), but there have been multiple fight announcements surrounding “Pac-Man”. Ryan Garcia, Terence Crawford and Errol Spence Jr. have all at one been rumored as possible opponents for the Filipino legend. None of these rumors have come to fruition, even getting dismissed openly by both promotors and the fighters themselves.
Virginia Garcia, madre de los boxeadores Robert Garcia y Mikey Garcia falleció el 29 de Diciembre después de contraer el coronavirus. Habría sido hospitalizada por varios días y tristemente falleció. El anuncio se dio a conocer por medio de las redes sociales y la comunidad del boxeo dejo saber su lamento para la familia Garcia.
La señora Garcia es sobrevivida por Robert Garcia, entrenador y ex-boxeador que llego a ser campion mundial, Mikey Garcia quien actualmente es campeón en varias divisiones, dos hijas, nietos y su esposo conocido como ‘Big G’.
La familia Garcia se ha desempeñado sobre el boxeo desde los 80’s con su primer triunfo siendo canalizado por medio de los esfuerzos de Robert Garcia al momento que el llego a ser titular de la IBF en los 90’s.
Aun así, la madre de los Garcia mantuvo un trabajo en los campos de California. La industria agrícola depende del buen trabajo de personas como la Sra. Garcia. En algún momento llego a trabajar con Mikey Garcia dentro de su vientre. La honorable Virginia Garcia mantuvo su apoyo para sus hijos a lo largo de su vida, y es recordada como una persona agradable y tierna en video:
El mexicano de Oxnard, California, Fernando Vargas Jr, y también hijo de Fernando Vargas, inicio su carrera boxística en Mérida, Yucatán en Diciembre 18. 2020. Vargas derroto a Pablo Rosas en una pelea en peso welter.
Aunque solo peleo por 2 combatas, Vargas demostró aptitud boxística al iniciar el combate con golpes al cuerpo. También logro tumbar a Rosas con un golpe de poder. Combinaciones básicas del boxeo – el famado ‘1 y 2’ – lograron derrumbar la defensa de Rosas.
Tambien, Vargas mantuvo compostura en su defensa con sus manos resguardando su cara y aun siendo el agresor en la pelea.
In a welcomed detour from the usual self-deprecating or otherwise emasculating depiction of Mexicans in Hollywood, the ‘Tax Collector’ marked its digital theatrical release yesterday, Friday August 7th, 2020. The movie directed by David Ayer, starring Bobby Soto, Cheyenne Hernandez, George Lopez, Shia LeBouf and Conejo ‘aka’ Jose Martin, depicts the trials and tribulations of Mexican Mafia set delegates whose job is to collect taxes from Los Angeles area gangs.
Bobby Soto and Shia LeBouf play Chicano tax collectors in southern California. They collect the ‘dirty third’ necessary for all LA based Chicano gangs to pay to a prison organization, an obvious ode to the Mexican Mafia or ‘La Eme’, a Mexican nationalist gang started in the 1960’s to protect Mexicans from other ethnic groups within California’s prison system.
Since the start of the late 1980’s, it has been widely known that California based gangs often work in direct partnerships with powerful Mexican cartels handling drugs. The movie does a good job of sending that potent message to the audience with shootouts reflecting their subculture accurately.
The movie casts a light on Chicano culture in Los Angeles, California, with vivid depictions of life for Southsiders dealing with every day life to ‘Big Homies’ wielding power from within miserable conditions in California prisons. It’s as harrowing and cautionary as a movie of this type can be without preaching.
Much of the United States is characterized with an increase in non-Whites assimilating to white culture. In California, the most Mexican place outside of official Mexico, the exact opposite occurs. Many kids grow up Chicano without knowig it, with LeBouf’s ‘Tax Collector’ character playing the role perfectly.
Many outside of California won’t understand this dynamic – Chicanos should feel right at home with the movie.
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Sus palabras han sido duramente criticadas por la comunidad latina de Estados Unido, así como por el Partido Demócrata. Representantes del Partido Demócrata y miembros de la comunidad latina en Florida instaron al gobernador Ron DeSantis a ofrecer disculpas públicas por culpar a los trabajadores agrícolas hispanos del aumento en el número de contagios en el estado, que superó ese día los 100,000.
“Vivimos en tiempos muy oscuros cuando el gobernador echa la culpa del aumento de los casos de coronavirus no a su gestión fallida sino a aquellos que son los más vulnerables dentro de nuestra comunidad aquí en Florida”, lamentó el senador estatal José Javier Rodríguez durante una teleconferencia.
La población depende de estos trabajadores esenciales, ya que “si estos no fueran a trabajar no podríamos dar comida a nuestras familias”, expresó por su parte Cramer Verde, director político de la Liga de Ciudadanos Latinoamericanos Unidos (Lulac), que también participó en la conferencia.
El gobernador DeSantis señaló la semana pasada que la culpa del aumento de los casos registrados de coronavirus en las últimas semanas se debe a las comunidades agrícolas, en su gran mayoría trabajadores hispanos.
“Algunas de estas personas van a trabajar en autobuses escolares y se apelotonan como sardinas mientras se desplazan a través del condado de Palm Beach y otros lugares similares, lo que permite muchas oportunidades para que se produzca el contagio”, explicó DeSantis.
El republicano hizo estos comentarios refiriéndose especialmente a los condados del sur de Florida como Miami-Dade, que ha sido uno de los epicentros de la pandemia en el estado.
Rodríguez tachó los comentarios del gobernador de “vergonzosos” y reclamó una disculpa pública de su parte ante esta comunidad que “es una de las más vulnerables por las dificultades que tienen a la hora de acceder a los servicios sanitarios”.
“Seguimos con una política personal (por parte del gobernador) en la que la comunidad hispana se ve como parte del problema por el aumento de casos de Covid-19, cuando no tienen nada que ver con ellos en sí”, reiteró el senador.
A medida que la temporada avanza muchos de los trabajadores agrícolas se van desplazando hacia el norte siguiendo las cosechas en otros estados, por lo que es vital ofrecerles las ayudas sanitarias para evitar la propagación del virus.
Rodríguez busca que se aumenten las medidas de protección entre esta comunidad al recordar que es el gobierno estatal el que debe proporcionar las herramientas que muchas de estas personas no disponen, tales como una cobertura sanitaria mínima.
In Colton, California, Izaac Colunga, a promising prospect boxer who is battling the injuries sustained from of a bullet wound in the neck, received a massive parade for his birthday in a show of the Mexican community’s show of support. Zuniga for his part has made a heck of recovery though he is still paralyzed from the waist down due to a bullet wound. Intiially, Zuniga was paralyzed from the neck down, marking a significant turnaround in his condition.
The Garcia boxing family helped coordinate the parade with the help of the fire department. The community generally reveres Zuniga’s boxing and story, who began training two years ago with Robert Garcia, a featherweight champion in the 1980’s who shifted to big time coaching during the 1990’s.
On hand was also Mikey Garcia, a Pound-for-Pound best in 4 weight divisions, recently won an exciting decision victory against a courageous Jessie Vargas.
Aside from the actual parade, Ellie Seckback reported that Colunga received a WBC belt as a gift from the Garcia’s. We wish Colunga a speedy recovery and are proud of the progress already made.
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Juan Manual Marquez, former welterweight, and the only man to have knocked out Manny Pacquiao during his hey-day is asserting that Mikey Garcia is the number one challenger for Pac-Man.
On February 29, Mikey Garcia faced down Jessie Vargas, a top contender whose speed and experience initially complicated Garcia’s gameplan. However, Garcia is a habitually slow starter, proving that he could time his 1-2 punch combination against a bigger, more experienced welterweight.
As the fight progressed, Mikey Garcia was able to break down through Jessie Vargas’ lead right hand and a propensity to gas out against the ropes.
The UCLA Chicano Research Center has continued to preserve key aspects of Chicano culture. Creative efforts have leveraged resources from within the community to preserve identity and memory of Chicano culture. An interesting excerpt from an LA Times article here notes how a class based bifurcation occurs within the Chicano community, which is often exploited by conservative forces.
“The Mexican labels didn’t think poor people bought records,” Strachwitz says. “What the American labels understood, and still understand, is that poor Mexicans in the U.S. are strongly connected to their music and will spend all they have to buy it.”
Because it is so often associated with poor people and immigrants, much Mexican regional folk music, modern and historic, remains a source of ridicule for assimilated middle- and upper-class Latinos, including many in Los Angeles, according to Hernandez.
For that reason, he says, it is much more common to find assimilated and educated Chicanos dancing to Cuban son, Puerto Rican salsa or Spanish-language rock than to corridos or norteños–because the other genres are associated with middle- and upper-class values.
The article recalls when a UCLA researcher connected an effort to preserve a vast collection of Chicano music and paired it with the financing from superstars, los Tigres del Norte.
Recently, the husband of Chrissie Carnell Bixler (actor/model) took to social media to denounce harassment of their family from the Church of Scientology. Mrs Carnell Bixler is unfortunately one of the several (4 to our knowledge) that has accused Danny Masterson of rape. Masterson is an actor who has ties to the Church of Scientology.
Only Carnell-Bixler has gone public with her allegations, but these were (eventually) taken more seriously after much advocacy from her musician husband and public outrage (Source: Time).
The series of allegations were deemed serious enough for the actor to be dismissed from the Netflix show ‘The Ranch’ in 2017.
On Instagram, Cedric Bixler Zavala (family man/singer for At The Drive In and Mars Volta) showed a piece of meat wrapped in a well known rat poison that his dog ingested. According to the singer, the meat was placed by someone linked to the Church of Scientology for the dog to find and eat. The practice is not uncommon as other COS related victims have claimed similar treatment from private investigators (Source: CBS). Even journalists have claimed retribution.
The poison was also found and documented by the singer.
