“El licor de México no se da por vencido fácilmente”, señala Lance Winters de St. George Spirits en Alameda. “Es un licor orgulloso y fuerte”, comenta sobre el tequila y el difícil proceso de producción de la maravillosa bebida del agave. Ubicado en la antigua base aérea de la Marina de los Estados Unidos cruzando las aguas del centro de Oakland y San Francisco, la innovadora destiladora ha producido el primer tequila en los Estados Unidos elaborado a

Achievement, passion, and leadership were celebrated last week at a special awards event in San Francisco. The San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards recognized a diverse group of local people who have contributed to civil rights, social activism, and the arts.  Among the awardees were:

- Eugene Rodriguez, founder of Los Cenzontles Mexican Cultural Arts Center. A classically trained guitarist, Eugene was honored for his passion for

La semana pasada fueron celebrados los logros, la pasión y el liderazgo en un evento de reconocimientos especiales que se llevó a cabo en San Francisco. The San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards reconoció a un grupo diverso de gente local que han contribuido a los derechos civiles, al activismo social y al arte. Entre las personas que recibieron un reconocimiento estuvieron:

First invented by the Mayans more than 10,000 years ago, tortillas have become a $6 billion a year industry in the U.S. alone.

Tortillas have surpassed bagels and muffins, to come only second in place to sliced bread, and have now become the number 2 packaged bread product sold in the U.S.  The rapid growth of the tortilla industry is attributed not only to the growing Hispanic population, but to increasing tortilla consumption among non-Hispanics as well.

Creciendo como campesino en una familia de quince miembros, Ramón Resa nunca imaginó que podría convertirse en doctor. Abandonado por su mamá soltera, quien tuvo cinco hijos antes de cumplir 20 años, Ramón creció en un ambiente de pobreza extrema, abandono y total indiferencia hacia la educación. A la edad de tres años él ya recolectaba algodón con su familia en los campos de California central. Fueron los maestros de primaria de Ramón

Growing up as a farm worker in a poor family of fifteen, the odds were against Ramón Resa to break out of his bleak reality. Abandoned by his single mother, who had five kids before she was 20, he grew up in an environment of severe poverty, neglect, and a disregard for education. At the age of three, he was picking cotton in the fields of central California.

It was Ramón’s elementary-school teachers who opened his eyes to the idea of education and awakened in him the dream of going to college and