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07/21/2020
During this time of pandemic this event labeled “Basque” traditionally held on a Saturday in August has been postponed until 2021 ((See communication). The “Basque Fry” festival/fundraiser usually takes place at the Corley Ranch near Gardnerville, Nevada that gathers Republicans along with prominent names from the party invited by the Morning in Nevada PAC presided by Adam Laxalt, who served ...
07/20/2020
This Friday, July 24th another anniversary of the birth of Simon Bolivar will be celebrated in Bolibar, Bizkaia. This is an annual celebration that the locals keep in mid. “We have always felt like it had more impact outside than locally. We feel that it is necessary to carry out this recognition and so we felt the idea was given more value starting in his hometown,” Alberto Garro, ...
07/20/2020
The California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) has awarded Basque-American Professor Steven Gamboa the Millie Ablin Excellence in Teaching Award “for his work awakening and provoking curiosity, vitality and interest in philosophy among his students.” Dr. Gamboa earned this award with which the CSUB recognizes the contributions made to its students, academic disciplines, and campus communities. Born ...
07/19/2020
To the FEVA note, which we reported on yesterday, we must add that of the Basque Government. Remember that President Fernández, when presenting the measures and the situation in Argentina on the occasion of COVID-19 this Friday, cited the case of the Basque Country as an example of what he does not want for Argentina and, and as a path it should not take, stating that “If you have some experience ...
07/18/2020
This weekend on the US Basque calendar includes the Basque Festival in Reno, Nevada and Gooding, Idaho organized by the Reno Zazpiak Bat Basque Club and the Gooding Basque Association respectively. Due to the current situation, with the pandemic still out of control in the United States, the physical gathering is not possible. Nevertheless, Aita Antton will celebrate mass online, corresponding ...
07/18/2020
The Federation of Basque-Argentine Entities published a forceful response to the nation’s president, Alberto Fernandez, who alluded publicly that the Basque Country “was a place that had to choose who lived and died.” The note from FEVA, that included an additional note from the Basque Government, firmly negates, that “The health system in the Basque Country DID NOT collapse” ...
07/17/2020
Yesterday, the Federation of Basque-Argentine Entities FEVA launched a video to announce the beginning of the Euskara Munduan Winter Barnetegi, supported by the Etxepare Basque Institute and organized in Argentina by the federation. The announcement wasn’t casual; and in this way, FEVA begins a new step of virtual proposals that once the quarantine is over, will allow Argentina to ...
07/17/2020
The last seat in Bizkaia was in the air, with a recount of votes cast in Euskadi that initially leaned towards EH Bildu, awaiting the results of votes cast abroad. As it happened in the last general elections, the votes form the Diaspora decided the last parliamentarian, in this case granting one less parliamentarian to HB Bildu, that remained with 21 and adding a new seat to the coalition of PP + Ciudadanos ...
07/17/2020
In an especially difficult year, not just because of the forced cancellation of all activities because of the Coronavirus, but also because of the robbery suffered by Urrundik at its clubhouse in May, the Basque club got to enjoy a Master Class on Basque dance by renowned dantzari and musician from Añorga, Gari Otamendi Arrieta.
07/17/2020
On July 7th Josie (Carricaburu) Jauregui passed away. Born in Rock Springs, the daughter of Gaston and Mary (Larre) Carricaburu, she was raised into a family of Basque ranchers in Wyoming. Josie always kept the Basque-American culture that she learned as a child alive naturally, and especially when she married Leon Jauregui from Aldude raising their two children in it. Euskaldun fededun, she ...
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