Tag: Basques in the Americas
2018—Thirty years after the Reagan-Ardanza meeting at the White House
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
One of our readers recently reminded us that 2018 marks the 30th anniversary of the first time a...
The documentary “Basques in the West” can now be seen online...
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Back in October 2011, we spoke of how Amaya Oxarango-Ingram and Brent Barras were preparing a documentary telling...
Paco Igartua—70 years of ‘Oiga’ magazine, the work of a very...
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On November 8,1948, the first issue of Oiga, founded by a Basque-Peruvian journalist, Francisco «Paco» Igartua Rovira (1923–2004), was...
Juan Ayerbe and his “castle” in Argentina—the inspiration for “Maitetxu mía”?
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The daily La Nueva out of Bahía Blanca, Argentina, has just published a fascinating story by Hernán Guercio telling the...
What a Basque restaurant in Nevada is like
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Richard Moreno, aka "The Nevada Traveler", is a journalist and author who has spent years writing, in newspapers,...
Smuggled Mexican silver found in Getaria
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Our readers will probably already have heard about the silver ingot found by a diver at the bottom...
Aitor Narvaiza, born in Ermua, is the new Sheriff of Elko...
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Given their expressions, the people in the header photo are showing so much joy that you'd think that...
“Aita”. Following in the footsteps of a ‘gudari’, from Lima to...
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A while back, we announced the debut of the documentary "Aita", which tells the story of a family,...
Arantzazu Euzko Etxea of Lima: Manifesto against the Valley of the...
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This is hardly the first time we've spoken about the work being done at the Arantzazu Euzko Etxea of...
Discovering the Basque roots of the American Dream
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Troy Media is a Canadian publication we've come across more than once. Back in 2013, they published an...