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This Latina became the youngest woman ever elected to the United States Congress at age 29 in 2018, representing New York’s 14th District.
Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
In most of Latin America, this word refers to a lightbulb, but in Argentina and Uruguay it refers to the metal straw used for mate.
What is bombilla?
In 1990, this writer became Mexico's first Nobel laureate in Literature; his title El laberinto de la soledad is a collection of essays in which he analyzes Mexican history and culture.
Who is Octavio Paz?
The Aztec Empire referred to its capital city by this name, often associated with a legend involving an eagle and a cactus.
What is Tenochtitlán?
Born in the mountains of the “Isla del Encanto”, this folk genre recounts the experiences of the Puerto Rican farmer through a complex of improvised verses, melodies, and rhythms, reflecting the very nature of their creativity born from experience and observation.
What is Jíbaro folk music?
This Puerto Rican leader became the first woman elected Governor of Puerto Rico in 2001.
Who is Sila María Calderón?
In El Salvador and Honduras, this noun is commonly used as slang for “kid” or “young person,” serving as a casual term that reflects age and familiarity in everyday speech.
What is cipote?
This title by Uruguayan writer, Eduardo Galeano, became a record-holding political manifesto after its 1971 publication, tracking five centuries of resource exploitation in the region.
What is Las venas abiertas de América Latina?
This writing system, developed by the Maya, was one of the most sophisticated in the ancient Americas.
What is Maya scipt or Maya hieroglyphs?
Taking place on December 7, the eve of the Immaculate Conception, this beloved Colombian tradition signals the start of the Christmas season as families and communities illuminate windows, balconies, and sidewalks with thousands of candles and paper lanterns in honor of the Virgin Mary.
What is the Noche de las Velitas?
This Puerto Rican physician became the first woman and first of Latino heritage to be appointed U.S. Surgeon General, leading national public health initiatives.
Who is Antonia Novello?
In Dominican Spanish and in other parts of Latin America, this highly generalized noun functions as a semantically diffuse referent for objects, events, or abstract notions in informal discourse.
What is vaina?
This 17th-century Mexican nun and polymath defended a woman’s right to education in her defiant title, Respuesta a Sor Filotea.
Who is Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz?
This system of expansion required conquered city-states to pay tribute in goods, labor, and resources rather than being fully absorbed politically.
What is the Aztec tribute system?
During this Costa Rican tradition season, vibrant larger-than-life papier-mâché figures, gigantes and cabezones, parade through the streets, merging colonial religious festival roots with indigenous artistic flair.
What is Día Nacional de las Mascaradas?
He was the first Venezuelan to win the American League Cy Young Award.
Who is Johan Santana?
In the Dominican Republic and in Puerto Rico, this lexical item denotes informal social gatherings characterized by music, dance, and collective leisure, reflecting Afro-Caribbean cultural continuity.
What is jangueo?
This Panamanian historical novelist wrote the 2004 title El caballito de oro, which focuses on the construction of the world's first transcontinental railroad.
Who is Juan David Morgan?
This Maya manuscript, one of the few surviving pre-Columbian codices, contains detailed astronomical tables used to track the movements of Venus.
What is the Dresden Codex?
Celebrated across Latin America and by many Latino families in the United States, this Christmas Eve tradition is marked by a feast and family gatherings that usher in Christmas Day.
What is Nochebuena?
On February 8, 1963, he used his system to broadcast the program Paraíso Infantil, which became the first regular television show in Mexico to be transmitted in color.
Who is Guillermo González Camarena?
Emerging in contemporary Latin American urban vernacular, this term refers to a relational category that exists ambiguously between friendship and a formalized romantic partnership.
What is amigovio?
This 2022 title is a critically acclaimed short story collection by Bolivian author Liliana Colanzi, who is known for blending science fiction and the uncanny.
What is Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro?
Meaning “the one and only,” this title distinguished the Inca ruler from all others, reinforcing both political supremacy and divine lineage within the empire.
What is Sapa Inca?
Often called the 'Christmas of the Amazon,' this massive religious pilgrimage in Belém features thousands of devotees pulling a heavy rope attached to the berlinda, the carriage carrying the statue of Our Lady of Nazareth.
What is the Círio de Nazaré?