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Coming Up on 100 Years of the Extraordinary Work of the...

Padres Pasionistas. Navegando por los ríos de la Amazonía peruana
Our regular readers will know yours truly has a great deal of fondness and admiration for the Passionist Fathers who set up in the Basque...

Víctor Zuluaga Gómez on the Nobility of the Basques: Better to...

Cartago Colombia
On our daily search for articles related to anything and everything Basque, we recently came across a Colombian publication, EJE 21, which has an opinion...

The Basque Center of Antioquia, Colombia Shares the Documentary “Basque Legacy...

Documental Legado Vasco en Antioquia
John Alejandro Ricaurte is a doctor in International Studies who is a historian at the University of Antioquia.  He obtained his degree in History...

Guides to Discover the History of the Basque Sheepherders Out West

Basque sheepherder camped on the range. Dangberg Ranch, Douglas County, Nevada. Photo by Arthur Rothstein. 1940
The Moab, Utah Canyon Country Zephyr is published in one of those places we're dying to visit because of the important Basque presence there,...

A Key Piece of Basque History in the US has Closed:...

(PHOTO: From left: Ignacio Maisterrena, Alfred Saldubehere and Pierre Arrayet — regulars at Noriega’s — speak and joke in their native Basque language in this undated file photo. “You don’t see family-style too much anymore,” Saldubehere, who came to the U.S. from France in 1958, said that day. “It feels like home)
Quite saddening news: the Noriega Hotel Restaurant in Bakersfield, California has closed its doors for the last time, after over 120 years.  This is yet...

The adventure of the Basque-Welsh Argentine, who’s walked almost the whole...

Martín Echegaray Davies is a descendent of Welsh travellers who sailed to Patagonia in the 19th century. Photograph: Martín Echegaray Davies
Martín Echegaray Davies is an Argentine from the city of Trelew, in Patagonia, who, on October 31, 2017, set off on an adventure that can...

Jaialdi 2020 is going to become Jaialdi 2021

Jaialdi 2020 se convierte en Jaialdi 2021
The team in charge of organizing the 2020 Jaialdi has just announced they're postponing it until 2021.  It is now to be held from July...

75 years, and many more, of the Necochea Basque Center in...

Colocación de la primera piedra del Centro Basco de Necochea (1946)
This year, 2020, the Euzko Etxea of Necochea celebrates its 75th anniversary, and they're making the most of this celebration by sharing some photos...

The Basque Lands of Mexico and the US, and Arizona’s Basque...

Tumaca, Arizona, parte del Sendero Histórico Anza
This isn't the first time we've brought up the very well founded theory that the name of the 48th US state, Arizona, comes from the...

The Persistence of the Basque Community Spirit in the US

ama de Vince J. Juaristi
Vince J. Juaristi is an old friend to the blog and our regular readers.  Thanks to him, we have two of the articles we most...