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Mexican Sopes As Made By Elvira And Diana

Pixar’s animators seem willing to go anywhere in pursuit of fresh enchantment. They plunged to the ocean’s depths in Finding Nemo, took to the sky with helium balloons in Up, and entered a child’s mind in Inside Out. Now, in the movie Coco, they — and we — are visiting the afterlife.

We get there alongside young Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez), who lives with his shoemaking family in a Mexican village. He’s a happy kid, except for one thing: His family has lived an entirely music-free existence for three generations. His grandmother (Renee Victor) has forbidden it all — no no blowing into soda-bottles, no listening to passing car radios, and absolutely no mariachis.

Miguel knows why. Years ago, his musical great-great-grandfather grabbed his guitar and left, never to return. On Dia de los Muertos — the Day of the Dead — when it’s said the deceased return to visit their families, no one so much as mentions great-great-grandad. Which means Miguel gets a bit of a shock when he strums a guitar in a cemetery on that day, and finds himself and his street puppy Dante — get it? — transported to the land of the dead.

It’s an eye-popping, and lively sort of Hades, with streets paved in fluorescent flower petals, and skeletons performing production numbers about dancing papaya seeds.

In ‘Coco,’ Pixar Finds Joyous Life — In Death

José Hernández is the son of Mexican migrant farm workers and spent his childhood picking strawberries in California. Now, he’s an astronaut. Dreams do come true.

Please visit my website www.jakeprendez.com and tell your homies, reblog, share etc! I got my t-shirts, prints and post card/sticker packs online. I’m just a cool Chicano artist/ scholar and dad trying to make it. Your support is greatly appreciated.

Just a reminder that your ancestors are watching over you, working with you and sometimes they speak to you through your art or song or cooking without you realizing it. Open up and listen to them. This was completely unintentional. The painting was a self portrait/tribute to my ex wife and a good bye/letting go painting. A friend pointed out the similarities to the Mayan Vision Serpent which was a blood letting ceremony that was about shedding your skin and moving on. Listen to your ancestors and let them do their work.

Juan Manuel Montes may be the first “DREAMer” deported under Donald Trump

Federal authorities deported 23-year-old California resident Juan Manuel Montes, who has lived in the U.S. since the age of nine and twice received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals protections under Barack Obama’s administration, in what appears to be the first case of a DACA-protected “DREAMer” being deported under President Donald Trump.

According to USA Today, Customs and Borders Protection officers approached Montes in Calexico, California on Feb. 17, after Montes had left his wallet in a friend’s car. 

Just three hours later, Montes found himself deported to Mexico.

“Some people told me that they were going to deport me; others said nothing would happen,” Montes told USA Today. “I thought that if I kept my nose clean nothing would happen.” Read more (4/18/17 5:40 PM)

Montes and his attorneys are suing the Trump administration, “demanding that the federal government turn over key information about his sudden deportation,” and arguing that immigration officials failed to show any legal basis for deporting Montes.