About: Ana Flores

Mexico’s most prominent and most loved film icon would have been celebrating his 100th birthday today.  Mario Moreno, better known as Cantinflas, embodies Mexico’s spirit and amplified it through his movies and cartoons to the rest of the world.  He definitely put Mexico’s film industry on the map, especially after his 1957 Golden Globe  win as best actor in a comedy or musical, as he took his beloved country’s customs and social disparities to the global screen. If you wereRead More ...

You read that right, Latino kids suffer much more from dirty air and it’s effects, such as asthma.  In fact, 60% of Latino children are more likely to suffer from asthma and other respiratory conditions as compared to non-Latino whites.  It doesn’t end there:  Latinos are three times as likely to die of asthma. The most horrible aspect of all of this is that our community is being overly affected largely because of the areas we live in, the jobs we haveRead More ...

For the last two months Roxana and I have been writing posts and sharing information about the dangers of the toxins in the air we breathe and the prevalence of asthma among Latino kids. We’ve also shared with you simple ways in which you can join us in spreading awareness and advocating for clean air because we truly believe that if we can be activists, so can you. And now we’re respectfully coming to you with one last plea toRead More ...

Feel like dancing with your kids? Then press play on the video below for a hip-shaking, samba-envigorating preview of the first two minutes of the movie Rio where Blu, the Brazilian Macaw, is still a baby bird in his native land. As of today, Rio is available for your home viewing on DVD and Blu-ray.  This is a movie our kids will have a blast with and can also learn so much from with our guidance if we want to teachRead More ...

This whole week is dedicated to Bicultural Birthday Celebrations and group games have to be part of a good Fiesta. The games below were contribute by Jennifer Manriquez from The Bilingual Fun Company, so you know they must be a tested hit! La Araña La Araña is a fun and active group game. The game is played by a group of children ages 5 and up. The “spider” is confined between two parallel lines on the ground, drawn about 20Read More ...

Today we kick off a week-long celebration of Latino-style birthdays we´re calling:  Bicultural Birthdays Celebration. No Fiesta is complete without some outrageous gift-giving so we´ve put together four very, very generous giveaways of fantastic products for you to enter to win this week. The best way to make sure you don´t miss any of the giveaways this week (or any other, for that matter!) is to subscribe either to our reader feed or the email feed. The first giveaway comesRead More ...