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Esmeralda Bermudez Profile picture
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Aug 23, 2020 • 10 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
In 1970, more than 20K protesters marched through East LA for the Chicano Moratorium. By day’s end, hundreds were arrested & trailblazing journalist Ruben Salazar was dead. The events of that chaotic day still reverberate among LA’s Latinos 50 years later. latimes.com/projects/chica…
It started as a peace march. But for the Moratorium generation, the day left protesters dismayed, disappointed and angry. @longdrivesouth latimes.com/projects/chica…
In murals, theater, photography and music, the Chicano Moratorium influenced art of its time and our time too. @cmonstah latimes.com/projects/chica…
The Chicano Moratorium was unforgettable. Hear from those who were there. @stevesaldivar
The Chicana Revolt. The women of the Brown Berets — Las Adelitas de Aztlán — break free and form their own movement.@VanessaMartinez @julia_p_barajas #SomosLAT #RubenSalazar latimes.com/projects/chica…
Chasing Salazar. Accident or assassination? A reporter’s years-long quest to find out how and why Ruben Salazar died. @LAJourno #SomosLAT #RubenSalazar

latimes.com/projects/chica…
A day of rage in East L.A.
Simmering anger over brutal policing, unequal education and racist neglect finally explodes. @LouisSahagun #SomosLAT #RubenSalazar latimes.com/projects/chica…
Ruben Salazar: The making of the myth. In death, he’s been made more radical than in life. @DoranyPineda90 #SomosLAT #RubenSalazar latimes.com/projects/chica…
Reading Ruben Salazar.
He was no radical. He was a prophetic reporter. @GustavoArellano #SomosLAT #RubenSalazar latimes.com/projects/chica…
Felicidades to all the @latimes @LATLatinoCaucus journalists who worked so hard on this project to celebrate an @latimes journalist who left an important legacy. #somosLAT #RubenSalazar Image

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Feb 8, 2021
BIG NEWS 📣

This year at the @latimes I'll be working on a project I've long dreamed of.

I'll be writing the #SalvadoranSeries, a collection of stories documenting what became of the hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans that fled El Salvador during the U.S.-backed war.
Today, Salvadorans make up the third largest Latino population in the U.S.. They have a vast presence in Los Angeles, the D.C. region & many major cities.

You can also find thousands of Salvadoreños in Canada, Australia, Italy and Spain.
Four decades after their great migration began, there's so much that's misunderstood about the Salvadoran diaspora. So much that's been erased about their history, their identity & most of all, about the key role the U.S. has played in shaping their homeland & in displacing them.
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Nov 4, 2020
The “Latino Vote” tonight 🤦🏽‍♀️ #Election2020
I encourage you to read some of the great work my @latimes colleagues have been doing on Latinos and #Elections2020 👇🏾
More on 8) A key thing that may impact how “Latinos” vote is the immig status of loved ones. Some families have been composed of U.S. citizens for generations. Others include a mix of citizens, perm residents, visa overstayers, TPS holders, relatives who had to cross the border..
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Nov 4, 2020
It’s laughable that in 2020, this country still needs to be reminded, Sesame Street style, that Latinos are not a monolith & the Latino vote is a mirage. This misconception comes from how little u bother knowing us, how superficially u cover us & how absent we are in newsrooms.
Off the top of my head, here's just a few reasons why "the Latinos" can fall all over the political spectrum on just about any given topic:

1) Geography. There's endless political differences between Cubanos, Mexicanos, Argentinos, Dominicanos, Central Americans, etc.
2) Religion. We've got a ton of Catholics, but our connection to God/ church / spirituality is complicated depending on our guilt levels, how hardcore our moms were growing up, generational shifts, political views like gay rights/abortion, etc.
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Nov 3, 2020
Last night, I came across a nugget of history that will hopefully make everyone smile on this stressful today.

El Salvador, like so many places, has a rich indigenous history. Panchimalco, an indigenous community south of the capital, was known for a curious custom...
In the early 1900s, nativos here believed that the eleventh day following the start of a full moon was the best day to make healthy, strong babies. (Any day before this day would produce "cowardly men")
So each day, on this special day, at around 9 o'clock at night, indigenous leaders walked through the village with a drum, proudly shouting:

"Now is the time to conceive, gentlemen!"
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Oct 30, 2020
The U.S. left vast numbers of migrant children in custody far longer than previously known, living out a chunk of their childhoods in a government shelter system that’s at best ill-equipped to raise them & at worst a factory of abuse & trauma. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
A 17-year-old from Honduras spent a good part of her childhood, living in refugee shelters & foster homes in Oregon, Massachusetts, Florida, Texas & New York — inexplicably kept apart from the grandmother and aunts who had raised her.
Cut off from contact with her family, she’s begun to self-harm & was prescribed a cocktail of powerful psychotropic medications. She hadn’t been taught English or learned to read or acquired basic life skills such as cooking. She hadn’t been hugged in years. @aurabogado @iff_or
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Oct 29, 2020
Spread the word👏🏽 On Nov. 12, the @latimes will launch a much-anticipated, FREE weekly newsletter, the Latinx Files, to highlight the issues affecting our community — from the pandemic to the recession to immigration... latimes.com/california/sto…
This newsletter hosted by @fidmart85 will also include critiques of our exclusion from mainstream culture emerging from Hollywood, the latest Bad Bunny release & everything in between. Sign up at latimes.com/latinx-files or latimes.com/newsletters to get it in your inbox 🥳
Nearly half of Los Angeles is Latinx. So is 40% of California and nearly 20% of the United States. Yet our stories have been too rarely told by the media — yes, including the @latimes. The Latinx Files is part of The Times’ broader effort to rectify that.
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