Latino Entrepreneur Association e-Magazine: December Issue

First L.E.A. Inspirando Lideres Event

About Inspirando Lideres

Inspirando Lideres’main purpose is to bring together the Hispanic/Latino community to learn more about entrepreneurship and to showcase their small or big business with the public and other businesses in the area. The event is free of charge to anyone attending the event as a guest and is partially funded by local sponsors and L.E.A. The two hour event is mainly broken down into three parts; Guest Speakers, sponsor recognitions and business networking with the sponsors and vendors of the event.

First Event

On September 21st, 2022, the Latino Entrepreneur Association launched th eir first ever Inspirando Lideres event aimed to bring together the Latino/Hispanic business community. Founders,

M Saucedo, also known as “Chema” to the community, to inspire all the East Texas entrepreneurs that attended with his compelling story with the struggles and failures that lead to building his business empire. Claudia and Flor emphasized that these events are free of cost to anyone that would like to attend and learn more about entrepreneurship and want to socialize with local business owners. “Inspirando Lideres” (inspiring leaders) is run by and organized by two other LEA members, Edgar Contreras,

speaker

Claudia M. Medina and Flora Ibarra, officially launched their monthly networking showcase event along with guest

Jose

Design Director and Anthony Medina, Event Coordinator.

Photography: Courtesy of EC Photography Studios

Photograph: Courtesy of EC Photography Studios

Alfonso & Christina Hernandez; Founders

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academics are divided on whether the festivity has genuine indigenous pre-Hispanic roots or whether it is a 20th-century rebranded version of a Spanish tradition developed during the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas to encourage Mexican nationalism through an “Aztec” identity. The festivity has become a national symbol in recent decades and it is taught in the nation’s school system asserting a native origin. In 2008, the tradition was inscribed in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.

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Views differ on whether the festivity has indigenous pre-Hispanic roots, whether it is a

more modern adaptation of an existing European tradition, or a combination of both as a manifestation of syncretism. Similar traditions can be traced back to Medieval Europe, where celebrations like All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day are observed on the same days in places like Spain and Southern Europe. Critics of the native American origin claim that even though pre-Columbian Mexico had traditions that honored the dead, current depictions of the festivity have more in common with European traditions of Danse macabre and their allegories of life and death personified in the human skeleton to remind us the ephemeral nature of life.Over the past decades, however, Mexican academia has increasingly questioned the validity of this assumption, even going as far

as calling it a politically motivated fabrication. Historian Elsa Malvido, researcher for the Mexican INAH and founder of the institute’s Taller de Estudios sobre la Muerte, was the first to do so in the context of her wider research into Mexican attitudes to death and disease across the centuries. Malvido completely discards a native or even syncretic origin arguing that the tradition can be fully traced to Medieval Europe. She highlights the existence of similar traditions on the same day, not just in Spain, but in the rest of Catholic Southern Europe and Latin America such as altars for the dead, sweets in the shape of skulls and bread in the shape of bones.