Transcript
John Phillip Santos
Writer/Producer
I was struck in the piece, and I am very happy that the Senator and the Consul are here to address the matters of immigration and issues of economics and politics, because there is such a need to look at questions of culture and history. The piece pointed out that there has been a presence, an Hispano, Latino, Mexicano presence here in Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming for at least 150 years and, in fact, considerably longer than that. Peoples have been wandering these continents of what we call North and South America now for 40,000 years. So, our country, the countries of Americas, are overlays of that history and in part, Latinos are called upon now to recover that history for ourselves and not just to benefit our own communities. It is a testimony that in a sense we are obligated to share with our fellow Americans or Americans of the United States and the Americanos of the greater continental spread of the nations of the Western hemisphere.
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