Maria de Estrada Farfan - Conquistadora

Lest we forget: María de Estrada Farfán: Sister of Francisco Estrada Farfán (who went with Narváez to New Spain), daughter of Juan Sánchez de Estrada, of Seville, also came with Narváez. Dorantes said that she did well as a conquistadora at the Noche Triste and Otumba. Muñoz Camargo wrote the same, adding that 'she fought well with sword and shield, with fury and spirit, on horseback and with a lance.'

This is but one of over a dozen women who fought along side the conquistadores in the conquest of Mexico.

Anonymous op-ed author secretly taped - Humor

I just preordered a copy of "How to Read Donald Duck"

How to Read Donald Duck (Para leer al Pato Donald in Spanish) is a 1971 book-length essay by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart that critiques Disney comics from a Marxist point of view as being vehicles for American cultural imperialism. It was first published in Chile in 1971, became a bestseller throughout Latin America and is still considered a seminal work in cultural studies. It is to be reissued in August 2018 to a general audience in the United States, with a new introduction by Dorfman, by OR Books.

How to Read Donald Duck was written and published during the brief flowering of revolutionary socialism under the government of Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity coalition and is closely identified with the revolutionary politics of its era. In 1973, a coup d'état, secretly supported by the United States, brought in power the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. During Pinochet's regime, How to Read Donald Duck was banned and subject to book burning; its authors were forced into exile.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_Donald_Duck

They played Jupiter from Holst's 'The Planets' at McCain's funeral

Jupiter represents Zeus, the ruler of Mount Olympus.

Mars is the warrior.

Just one more insult directed at the ignoranus in the White House.

Pedro Palacios Almafuerte - Pui Avanti! - Omage to John McCain

Do not surrender even when defeated,
and do not be a slave even in bondage,
trembling with fear advance bravely,
and attack with fury, though badly wounded.

Be as stubborn as a rusting nail,
that refuses to yield though old and ruined,
and do not envy the peacock's plumage,
that hides in fear at the first noise.

Be as a god that never cries,
or as a devil that never prays,
or as the oak whose mighty canopy,
needs of water but does not beg it.

Even when it rolls to the dust,
let your head scowl and bite,
and scream for vengeance.

- Pedro Palacios Almafuerte
Argentinian poet 1854-1917

Rest in peace, honorable sir.

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Paris Dennard on CNN right now

Jesus fucking H Christ!

Member of Trump's 2020 Re-Elect Advisory Council

I am just appalled.

El amor dura, mientras dura dura.

Advanced Spanish test.

I would even say forward.