Sonia Rangel's Blog Posts Tagged 'Latin' (2)

Yesterday I watched The Motorcycle Diaries or Diarios de Motocicleta with a friend. I had already watched it before a few years ago and I really liked it. My friend had never seen it and I thought he would like it we watched it. 

I remember when I watched it the first time. I heard about it from a friend. He had been moved by the film and well I was interested. The movie is based on the memoirs of Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Che and his friend are young adventure seeking…

Yesterday while I was cleaning I was thinking about when I was at the Denver Art Museum last summer. My friend and I went one afternoon while we were at a journalism convention.I remember seeing casta paintings at the museum and it brought back memories of one of my history classes, History of Colonial Latin America. Casta paintings are paintings that displayed the various castes in society in Latin America and indicated their socioeconomic status. For example, if you were a metizo…