Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, Author at Xica Nation

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.