Vanguardia America

By James Garcia

Vanguardia America is a weekly newsmaker podcast on issues impacting the U.S. Latino community.... more

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The podcast currently has 58 episodes available.

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January 21, 2025 Author Sonora Reyes talks about their new book, “Broposal”
Born and raised in Arizona, Sonora Reyes is the author of contemporary Young Adult novels The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School and The Luis Ortega Survival uClub, and the just released Adult Romance novel The Broposal. They also have contributed short stories to the anthologies Transmogrify! and For the Rest of Us.

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December 17, 2024 Arte Público Press Founder and Director Nicolas Kanellos, recipient of the prestigious National Humanities Award
Dr. Nicolas Kanellos, founder and director of Arte Público Press, was recently awarded the prestigious National Humanities Medal by
President Joe Biden.
Since 1979, Arte Público has been publishig Latino literature, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry and an wide array of children’s
books and books for young adults.
The award was presented at a White House ceremony on Oct. 21, 2024, where Dr. Kanellos joined 17 artists, authors, musicians, historians and others honored by President Biden.
To learn more about Dr. Kanellos, visit ⁠Arte Público Press.
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December 17, 2024 On the Latino vote, a post-election analysis with Rafael Collazo and Joe Garcia
Rafael Collazo and Joe Garcia join host James E. Garcia for a free-flowing discussion about Latino voters and the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.
Collazo is executive director of ⁠⁠UnidosUS Action Fund⁠⁠ and Garcia is executive director of the ⁠⁠CPLC Action Fund⁠⁠. (Both organizations are affiliated with UnidosUS.)
For background information related to this episode, check out the ⁠Hispanic Electorate Data Hub⁠ (powered by the UnidosUS Latino Vote Initiative) and the following opinion article by Joe Garcia, ⁠"It's now impossible to win an election without winning Latino voters."
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November 15, 2024 S2 Ep109: Canto Mundo Director Belinda Acosta
Host James E. Garcia interviews Belinda Acosta, director of Canto Mundo at Arizona State University. Canto Mundo supports Latinx poets and poetry from across the nation and is housed at Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU. Acosta discusses the organization's mission and events ahead of it's upcoming event on Nov. 17, 2024: Latino Poetry Anthology Reading featuring Alberto Rios and Gabriel Ramirez.

Vanguardia America in Arizona airs weekly on La Onda, 1190 AM, at 8 a.m. on Saturdays. To hear our previous episodes, go to vanguardiaamerica.com.
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May 13, 2024 S2 Ep81: Luis Miranda, author of "Relentless, My Story of the Latino Spirit That is Transforming America."
Vanguardia America's James Garcia speaks with Luis Miranda about his book, RELENTLESS: My Story of the Latino Spirit that is Transforming America. Miranda shares the poignant narrative of his life and career—from his early days as a radically-minded Puerto Rican activist, to his decades of political consulting, problem solving, and life as the father of one of the most playwrights in the world, Lin Manuel Miranda, author of Hamiliton. Amid the triumphs, challenges, and ongoing hard work, Miranda discusses what his experience reveals about our ever-changing politics and democracy, demographics, and society, and the critical role that his family has played in his life.
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March 22, 2024 S2 Ep80: Richard Ochoa of Motorsport Showcase Events and Lowrider Magazine
Vanguardia host James Garcia interviews Richard Ochoa of Motorsport Showcase Events. The company hosts Lowrider car shows across the nation. Ochoa is the 10-city tour manager for Lowrider Magazine, which caps off a year of shows in Las Vegas in October. We talk about this weekend's show in Superior, AZ, the national tour he manages, and the history and continuing popularity of the lowrider car scene.
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February 19, 2024 S2 Ep76: Roberto Reveles, 91, on his race for AZ Legislative District 7
Roberto Reveles is running for AZ Legislative District 7 against ultra-right Republican Wendy Rogers. A longtime Democratic activist and civil rights leader, Reveles, who is 91, is a former president of the ACLU of Arizona. He was the founding president of Somos America, an immigrants rights coalition that organized a massive march in Phoenix by protestors in support of immigration reform in 2006. Born to Mexican immigrants in Miami, Ariz., Reveles served in the Air Force during the Korean War, and as a staffer for five members of Congress before taking a job in the mining industry. Vanguardia America recently sat with Mr. Reveles for this exclusive interview about his candidacy. Read an extended print version of this interview here. To learn more about his candidacy, visit www.revelesforarizona.com.
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November 09, 2023 S2 Ep59: University of Arizona returns Castro home to family
The University of Arizona has ceded ownership of a historic home in Nogales that once served as the residence of the state's only ever Latino governor, Raul H. Castro, and his wife Pat. The home is now back in possession of the late governor's family. Host James E. Garcia speaks to Beth Castro, daughter of the former governor, and Nogales attorney Briana Ortega about the Castro family's claim in a recent lawsuit that the university had breached its contract with them when it accepted the home as a donation but failed to follow through on its public pledge to turn the property into a border studies center. (13 mins)

Photo courtesy of Tom Story.
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September 11, 2023 S2 Ep58: Remembering Bill Richardson (25 mins.)
In this episode, we remember a leading figure in American politics, someone regarded as a giant in the Latino community, the late Bill Richardson, who died at 75 on Sept. 1 at his summer home in Chatham Massachusetts. Among his many achievements, Mr. Richardson served as a member of Congress, governor of New Mexico, Ambassador to the United Nations, and Secretary of Energy under President Bill Clinton. Our guests include Arturo Vargas, CEO of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO); Domingo Garcia, president and CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC); Rafael Collazo, executive director of UnidosUS Action Fund;l and Francisco Pedraza, a political scientist at Arizona State University's School of Politics and Global Studies and associate Director of the Center for Latinas/os and American Politics Research. (25 mins)
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August 23, 2023 S2 Ep55: UnidosUS report finds hundreds of thousands Latino families losing Medicaid benefits
A new report by UnidosUS finds hundreds of thousands of Latino families have lost Medicaid coverage since the end of the federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency declaration. Medicaid is the national health insurance program, funded jointly by the state and federal governments, for low-income families and individuals. Vanguardia America's James E. Garcia's speaks to Stan Dorn, Senior Health Policy Director for UnidosUS, about the confusing and cumbersome bureaucratic "redetermination" process that’s led to more than 400,000 Florida families, including many Latinos, losing their benefits and how the situation there is being replicated nationwide.

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FAQs about Vanguardia America:

How many episodes does Vanguardia America have?

The podcast currently has 58 episodes available.