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In 1998, he coordinated the first Cervantes Institute Yearbook. Spanish in the World . He has been a columnist in several American journals in Spanish: La Opinión (Los Angeles), El Diario La Prensa (New York), and La Raza (Chicago) and co-editor of the journals Spanish in Context (John Benjamins) and Journal of Linguistic Geography ( Cambridge ...
Pamela Munro (born May 23, 1947 [1]) is an American linguist who specializes in Native American languages.She is a distinguished research professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she has held a position since 1974.
Maria Oliva-Hemker, Cuban-born American paediatrician; Tony Silva, Cuban-born American aviculturist and ornithologist who has written many books and articles about parrots. Albert Siu, internist and geriatrician at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City
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Although Los Angeles Chicano bands from the 1960s and 1970s are often remembered as part of the Chicano-movement as agents for social chance, [55] Latin(o) music has long been a way for artists to exercise political agency, including the post-World War II jazz scene, the New York City salsa of the 1970s, and the hip-hop movement of the 80s ...
Ronald Reagan is particularly popular in the Cuban-American community for standing up to Soviet communism and Fidel Castro's so-called "exportation of revolution" to Central America and Africa (there is a street in Miami named for Reagan), [67] [68] [69] and George W. Bush received 75 and 78 percent (in 2000 and 2004 respectively) of the Cuban ...
Cuba’s private sector now employs over 1.6 million people, more than the state, according to an analysis by Juan Triana, an economist with the Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy, based at ...
Jorge Lincoln Mas Canosa (21 September 1939 – 24 November 1997) was a Cuban-American businessman who founded the Cuban American National Foundation and MasTec, a publicly traded company. Regarded within the United States as a powerful lobbyist on Cuban and anti- Castro political positions, [ 1 ] he was labeled a "counterrevolutionary" by the ...