Roberto Cintli Rodriguez

National Chicano Moratorium gathered more than 30,000 activists, students, families and their children to the march down Whittier Blvd. in East Los Angeles, August 29, 1970. | Image courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library

50 Years Later: A State of War or a Permanent State of Insurrection?

Post author:Roberto Cintli Rodriguez
Post published:August 19, 2020
Post category:Modern reflections Recent

50 Years Later: A State of War or a Permanent State of Insurrection? By ROBERTO Dr. CINTLI RODRIGUEZ (Vea la versión en español a continuación.) In Chicano Manifesto (1971), Armando…

Why do the killings continue?

Post author:Roberto Cintli Rodriguez
Post published:August 8, 2018
Post category:Modern reflections Recent Stories of the People

By Roberto Rodriguez Being in media virtually my entire life, I often wonder what makes a story go viral while another virtually identical story, does not. Why do some stories make…

The Border: 500-Year Open Veins of the Americas

Post author:Roberto Cintli Rodriguez
Post published:July 27, 2018
Post category:Modern reflections Recent Stories of the People

Open your eyes America; that those crying children and their parents separated and detained by the U.S. president are mostly brown doesn’t mean they are merely dark; it also means that they are part of the original peoples of this continent; the children of La Llorona. They symbolize all those children that have been ripped away from their mother’s arms, since the era of colonialism.