Latin American HUM

Fig. 1. Parents are adjusting to working from home while  also developing a homeschool program for their children, Getty, 19 Mar. 2020, Insider.com            Today’s blog is going to be about an interesting program called Latino USA, which runs on 90.9 FM Sundays nights from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. The segment entitled “The Parents Are Not Alright” was live on October 6, 2020, however, I listened to it on October 21, 2020. The hosts of the program were Maria Hinojosa along with Jeanne Montalvo. Jeanne was the one in charge of an interview with three guest speakers. The purpose and topic of the program were to virtually gather with parents from different locations in the U.S. and talk about their experiences during this hard time of the Covid-19.           I learned that each of us is experiencing different hardships depending on our occupations, if we have children, and even vary according to the school year in which they a...

Photo: Popol Vuh (Book, By Allen J. Christenson, 2003.                                                                                     Today's post is about a very important book for the Maya culture and all of us who are interested in knowing as much as possible about them. The book is entitled Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of The Maya , which was translated by Allen J. Christenson. Some of the main characters in this story are: One Hunahpu and Seven Hunahpu, two brothers whose name represents their main activity, in this case using their blowguns. They play an important role because they are involved in a problem since they disturbed the lords of the underworld with their ball game, then they are asked to summon and die in that...