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A Mexican and a Basque record a music video for “Txoria-Txori”...

Sonia de los Santos (Mikel Mecon)
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Sonia de los Santos is an actress and singer (with a talent for children’s music) who was born...

The Basque-Irish connection. The Navarrese who sing to Northern Ireland from...

Puro Relajo. Balada Nord-Irlandaise
This article was translated by John R. Bopp About a year ago we (once again) broke our rules and wrote about a Navarrese group named. Puro...

The Basque Country: Mexico’s model for the economic changes that the...

El País Vasco un modelo para Mexico
This article was translated by John R. Bopp The fact that we can’t even imagine the influence that the recently elected President of the US is...

Iribarren, the “Crazy Basque” who built a monument in Mexico to...

El Monumento a Fleming que el vasco Iribarren le erigió en México (fotografía: Héctor García)
This article was translated by John R. Bopp The Mexican daily La Vanguardia on Saturday published an extensive and well-researched report by Jesús Peña dedicated to...

The Museum of Modern Art of Mexico opens an exhibition on...

El diseñador vasco Cristobal Balenciaga
This article was translated by John R. Bopp We’ve written several articles on Basque designer Cristóbol Balenciaga, about his museum in Getaria, about the space that...

“The land of good oaks”  Another defense of the Basque origin...

Robles en el Tumacacori National Park (Fotografía: skyislandalliance.org)
This article was translated by John R. Bopp We commented on this back in the “prehistory” of our blog.  Back in March of 2011, we told...

The Havana Wedding of a Friend of Hemingway’s, Officiated by the...

They say an amazing story is just the antechamber to an even more amazing story.  The other day, we posted one of those entries...

Extraordinary Basque Friends: From Cantinflas’ Pelotaria to Hemingway’s Abertzale Priest

We recently received this photo from a friend in the Vascos en México group (a must-read website for all those interested in Basques in general...

Juana Azurduy: a woman of Basque blood who fought for the...

This article was translated by John R. Bopp We never had, despite her importance in history.  That’s why, after admitting our ignorance, we’re so happy to...

The fundamental influence of the BNP in the Sandanista Movement

This article was translated by John R. Bopp Perhaps a better title might have been "The influence of a Basque nationalist in the ideological education of...