The Astrid Galindo Artistic Scholarship Competition lasts through June 2 Author: Emily DeVoe Updated: 6:39 PM EDT May 18, 2021
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Beautiful works of art are on display throughout the month of May inside Hola Hora Latina at the Emporium in downtown Knoxville. They re part of the Astrid Galindo Artistic Scholarship Competition and Exhibition that runs through June 2.
The event honors Galindo, who passed away in 2019, after a successful career as a consul for the Mexican Foreign Service and an artist whose work was displayed around the world.
Visitors to the exhibit can vote for their favorite pieces in person or on Hola Hora Latina s website to help choose three winners.
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Book: ‘Portuguese Merchants in the Manila Galleon System: 1565-1600’ by C. Villamar – Editor’s Note
Posted on 20 December 2020.
Villamar examines the role of Portuguese merchants in the formation of the Manila Galleon as a system of trade founded at the end of the sixteenth century.
The rise of Manila as a crucial transshipment port was not a spontaneous incident. Instead, it came about through a complex combination of circumstances and interconnections that nurtured the establishment of the Manila Galleon system, a trading mechanism that lasted two and half centuries from 1565 until 1815. Villamar analyses the establishment of the regulatory framework of the trade across the Pacific Ocean as a whole setting that provided legality to the transactions, predictability to the transportation and security to the stakeholders.