fiesta! a celebration of latin american countries and capital cities

FIESTA!A Celebration of Latin American Countriesand Capital Cities

Mexico

Mexico City

Guatemala

Guatemala City

El Salvador

San Salvador

Costa Rica

San José

Panama

Panama City and the Panama Canal

Colombia

Bogotá

Ecuador

Quito

Peru

Lima

Bolivia

La Paz

Chile

Santiago

Argentina

Buenos Aires

Uruguay

Montevideo

Venezuela

Caracas

Nicaragua

Managua

Honduras

Tegucigalpa

Cuba

Havana

Dominican Republic

Santo Doming

o

Spain

Madrid

We Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month

“Hispanic Americans One Culture,

Many Races”

FIESTA!

Celebration of the contributions of the Hispanic heritage

Linda Chavez-ThompsonThe leading woman in the national labor movement Mario Molina

Chemist and atmospheric scientist Winner of the 1995

Nobel Prize in chemistry

Julia AlvarezNovelist

Luis AlvarezAwarded the 1968 Nobel

Prize for Physics

Ellen OchoaNASA Astronaut

César ChávezRenowned labor

Leader

Co-founder of the United

Farm Workers

Tania LeónConductor, Composer,

Music Director and an international

figure in the music world

Guadelupe QuintanellaEducator & Motivational Speaker

Dolores HuertaOne the century's most powerful and respected labor movement leaders

Co-founder of the United Farm Workers

Nydia Velázquez First Puerto Rican Congresswoman

Aida Alvarez First Hispanic woman to

head the U.S. Small Business Administration

Tito PuenteInternationally recognized for his contributions to Latin music as a bandleader, composer, arranger, and percussionist

Louis CalderaThe 17th Secretary

of the Army on July 2, 1998

Geraldo Rivera

Journalist

Carlos Santana

Musician

Roberto Clemente

Baseball Hall of Famer

Jennifer Lopez

Singer

César Romero

Actor

Alex Rodriguez

New York Yankee baseball player

Henry Cisneros

The first person of Hispanic

background elected as mayor of a large

American city

The U.S. Postal Service unveiled the Cesar E. Chavez commemorative stamp, which honors the late former sailor, civil rights and farm labor leader.

Sonia Sotomayor is the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice.

The Hispanic heritage makes major contributions in:

Government, Business, the Arts, Education,

Entertainment, Architecture, and Sports

Hispanic Americans play a vital role in expanding United

States trade with our Latin American neighbors.

1 in 8 people in the U.S. claim Hispanic origin

A SLIDE PRESENTATION

BY

MR. ZINDMAN

VISIT MR.ZINDMAN’SWEB PAGE AT

www.mrzindman.com

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HISPANIC HERITAGE

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