ADVERTISEMENT
82.885 °f
Detroit
EL CENTRAL Hispanic News
  • Home
  • About
    • Resources
  • Community
    Motorized tricycle taxis carrying passengers pass each other on a wide Havana street lined with weathered colonial-style buildings.

    Cubans Raise Their Voices Amidst the Darkness of Sanctions

    Frank Venegas and Ideal Steel Employee Francisco Orozco

    For 30 years, Frank Venegas Jr. has demonstrated that business success and community investment can grow together

    Assembly for Hope Ratifies Statewide Policy Platform to Support Immigrants

    Houston Welcomes the World 

    Detroit Health Department Releases Community Health Roadmap Informed by 6,000+ Detroiters 

    “With Heavy Hearts”: Venezuelans Living in Michigan React to the Earthquakes That Devastated Their Homeland

    Detroit Hometown Summit Offers Vision For Affordable Housing

    Mayor Sheffield Releases Rise Higher Community Survey Data and Resident-Driven Framework for Detroit’s Future

    Wayne County Treasurer Urges Homeowners with Delinquent Property Taxes to Enroll in Interest Reduction Payment Agreement Plan by June 30, 2026

  • Featured
    Emergency responder wearing a helmet and backpack walking across a large field of debris and rubble.

    Ann Arbor Asylum-seeker Deported Hours Before Venezuela Earthquakes Dies in Building Collapse

    Two women unveiling a green Michigan Historic Site marker reading "Dra. Lucile Gajec" by pulling away a red, green, and blue striped serape, with a young boy watching beside them.

    A Museum, A Memory, A Marker: Honoring Dr. Gajec’s Lifelong Mission

    Wide view of a crowd watching a band perform on an outdoor stage under a banner reading "We Tell These Truths: All Humans Are Created Equal," trees and buildings in the background.

    The Concert of Colors Neighborhood Series Presents “We Tell These Truths: All Humans Are Created Equal”

    “With Heavy Hearts”: Venezuelans Living in Michigan React to the Earthquakes That Devastated Their Homeland

    Medicina Scarlett Expands Bilingual Healthcare in Southwest Detroit with Help from Motor City Match

    Panelists speak during the State of Construction 2026 forum at The Edit in Detroit on Thursday, June 11, 2026. Co-hosted by READ and DFO313, the discussion provided developers, contractors, and industry professionals with practical insights on navigating today's construction market. (Photo by Brayan Gutierrez)

    Detroit’s Veteran Builders Pass Down Lessons That Cost Them

    USA and Mexico Advance in Thrilling World Cup Play 

    Oficialmente en marcha el proyecto de restauración de la Basílica de Santa Ana tras recibir la bendición

    E&L Supermercado reopening

  • Opinion
  • Culture & Arts
    • All
    • World Cultures

     United States of America

    French Guiana

    Qoyllur Rit’i: The Snow Star pilgrimage in the Peruvian Andes

    Guyana

    Why This Year’s Concert of Colors Is Different, Yet the Same

    Haiti

    Sacatepéquez, Guatemala

    Julianna Sanromán Wins Second Place in Art Exhibit

    From Metal to Monarchs: Detroit Sculptor Juan Martinez Creates Art Meant to Be Experienced

    • World Cultures
  • Latest Issue
  • Past Issues
    • Throwbacks
  • Events
  • Newsletter
  • Contact
    • Advertise
  • en English
    • en English
    • es Spanish
No Result
View All Result
EL CENTRAL Hispanic News
  • Home
  • About
    • Resources
  • Community
    Motorized tricycle taxis carrying passengers pass each other on a wide Havana street lined with weathered colonial-style buildings.

    Cubans Raise Their Voices Amidst the Darkness of Sanctions

    Frank Venegas and Ideal Steel Employee Francisco Orozco

    For 30 years, Frank Venegas Jr. has demonstrated that business success and community investment can grow together

    Assembly for Hope Ratifies Statewide Policy Platform to Support Immigrants

    Houston Welcomes the World 

    Detroit Health Department Releases Community Health Roadmap Informed by 6,000+ Detroiters 

    “With Heavy Hearts”: Venezuelans Living in Michigan React to the Earthquakes That Devastated Their Homeland

    Detroit Hometown Summit Offers Vision For Affordable Housing

    Mayor Sheffield Releases Rise Higher Community Survey Data and Resident-Driven Framework for Detroit’s Future

    Wayne County Treasurer Urges Homeowners with Delinquent Property Taxes to Enroll in Interest Reduction Payment Agreement Plan by June 30, 2026

  • Featured
    Emergency responder wearing a helmet and backpack walking across a large field of debris and rubble.

    Ann Arbor Asylum-seeker Deported Hours Before Venezuela Earthquakes Dies in Building Collapse

    Two women unveiling a green Michigan Historic Site marker reading "Dra. Lucile Gajec" by pulling away a red, green, and blue striped serape, with a young boy watching beside them.

    A Museum, A Memory, A Marker: Honoring Dr. Gajec’s Lifelong Mission

    Wide view of a crowd watching a band perform on an outdoor stage under a banner reading "We Tell These Truths: All Humans Are Created Equal," trees and buildings in the background.

    The Concert of Colors Neighborhood Series Presents “We Tell These Truths: All Humans Are Created Equal”

    “With Heavy Hearts”: Venezuelans Living in Michigan React to the Earthquakes That Devastated Their Homeland

    Medicina Scarlett Expands Bilingual Healthcare in Southwest Detroit with Help from Motor City Match

    Panelists speak during the State of Construction 2026 forum at The Edit in Detroit on Thursday, June 11, 2026. Co-hosted by READ and DFO313, the discussion provided developers, contractors, and industry professionals with practical insights on navigating today's construction market. (Photo by Brayan Gutierrez)

    Detroit’s Veteran Builders Pass Down Lessons That Cost Them

    USA and Mexico Advance in Thrilling World Cup Play 

    Oficialmente en marcha el proyecto de restauración de la Basílica de Santa Ana tras recibir la bendición

    E&L Supermercado reopening

  • Opinion
  • Culture & Arts
    • All
    • World Cultures

     United States of America

    French Guiana

    Qoyllur Rit’i: The Snow Star pilgrimage in the Peruvian Andes

    Guyana

    Why This Year’s Concert of Colors Is Different, Yet the Same

    Haiti

    Sacatepéquez, Guatemala

    Julianna Sanromán Wins Second Place in Art Exhibit

    From Metal to Monarchs: Detroit Sculptor Juan Martinez Creates Art Meant to Be Experienced

    • World Cultures
  • Latest Issue
  • Past Issues
    • Throwbacks
  • Events
  • Newsletter
  • Contact
    • Advertise
  • en English
    • en English
    • es Spanish
No Result
View All Result
EL CENTRAL Hispanic News
No Result
View All Result

Dunes of Jericoara and Nélida Piñón

Mariana Ayón RV by Mariana Ayón RV
January 22, 2026
in Español, World Cultures
Home Español
ShareShareTweetEmail to a friend
Español Abajo

Jijoca de Jericoacoara (Ceará, Brazil) is a small municipality located in northeastern Brazil, in the state of Ceará, 300 km west of Fortaleza. It is one of the most visited tourist beaches in Brazil, and one of the most popular worldwide for thousands of tourists who love nature and sports. Travelers can admire its natural beauty, rivers, lagoons, and beaches year-round.

It is a small fishing village, popular with windsurfers and kitesurfers, known as “the Northeastern paradise” for preserving its pristine natural beauty. This place can only be reached by authorized vehicles capable of navigating the sandy paved roads and climbing the large dunes. Until about 20 years ago, Jericoacoara remained an isolated fishing village; there were no roads, electricity, or telephone service, and money was rarely used.

ADVERTISEMENT

Jericoacoara, although currently preserved as a fishing village on the coast of Ceará. Its beaches were almost deserted until hippies from various parts of Brazil discovered it in the 1970s. They were followed by Europeans who came on vacation and ended up staying. It remained a paradise known to very few until about ten years ago, when it began to appear on lists of the most beautiful beaches in the world in specialized publications.

Surrounded by dunes and warm-water lagoons, Jericoara is located within a national park. There are no roads leading there, just sand everywhere. Beyond the lush nature, there is much to discover.

Nélida Piñón

Vila Isabel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (1937 – 2022), daughter of the merchant Lino Piñón Muiños (Piñón Muñoz) and Olivia Cuiñas Piñón, of Spanish origin. From a very young age, she felt drawn to the world of literature.

“I began to write as a child, reading the books I was given, inventing those I didn’t have at hand […] at eight years old I proclaimed myself a writer. I don’t know, however, at what moment, and from what shelter, this other writer I am today emerged later, who aspires to encompass beings and enigmas.” Nélida Piñón was a staunch defender of human rights, especially women’s rights. She has been considered by the New York Review of Books the best Brazilian writer, and World Literature Today magazine dedicated its first issue of 2005 to her. Among the awards she received are the Juan Rulfo Latin American and Caribbean Literature Prize (1995), the most important in Latin America (she was the first woman to receive it and the first Portuguese-language author); the Menéndez Pelayo Prize (2003), in recognition of her work as a teacher and researcher in the humanities and her literary creations; and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (2005), “for her stimulating narrative work, artistically grounded in reality and memory, and also in fantasy and dreams.”

Piñón debuted in the literary world in 1961 with *Guía-mapa de Gabriel Arcanjo* (Guide-Map of Gabriel Arcanjo), a novel about sin, forgiveness, and the relationship of mortals with God through the dialogue between the protagonist and his Guardian Angel.

Nélida reflects sincerely: “I write for the pleasure of being happy, of being someone else. Because one cannot be oneself all one’s life; one must be many. One must have a vocation for multiplicity. And literature allows you to enter the other’s world. That is, in a way, it reduces the scope of the mystery. It doesn’t clarify the mystery because the mystery is beyond our ability to translate it. But reading seems to me like a revelation; it is the capacity to interpret what until then you didn’t know.”

She maintains that despite participating in some political gatherings to which she is invited, she “never” stops being a writer. “I spread my ideas without charging,” she says, “because I want a better world.” Finally, referring to migrants, she philosophizes: “The immigrants of the 19th and early 20th centuries had a dream, a dream that, to be realized, required extraordinary strength, a renunciation of their own lives, their own people and origins, to discover the Americas, for example.”

Her novel, *The Republic of Dreams*, is inspired by her vision of Galician emigration to Brazil. The work, which won the Brazilian Association of Art Critics Prize in 1985, is, in the author’s own words, “a deliberate novel […] I knew that to write it I had to prepare myself, and I did so over many years of my life. It was a large project that would encompass two continents, 300 years, or more, because there are aspects of that novel that reach back to the 12th century.”

Dunas de Jericoara

Jijoca de Jericoacoara (Ceará, Brasil) es un municipio pequeño ubicado en el nordeste de Brasil, en el estado de Ceará, a 300 km al oeste de Fortaleza. Es una de las playas turísticas más visitadas de Brasil, y de las más populares en todo el mundo para los miles de turistas amantes de la naturaleza y el deporte.

Los viajeros pueden admirar durante todo el año su naturaleza, sus ríos, sus lagunas y playas. Es un pequeño pueblo de pescadores, de deportistas de windsurf y kitesurf, conocido como “el paraíso nordestino” por conservar su belleza natural intacta. Sólo se puede llegar a este lugar mediante vehículos autorizados que puedan andar por las calles pavimentadas de arena, y subir las grandes dunas.

Hasta hace unos 20 años, Jericoacoara seguía siendo un pueblo de pescadores aislado de la ciudad, no existían carreteras, ni electricidad, ni telefonía y el dinero rara vez se utilizaba. Jericoacoara, aunque actualmente se preserva como un pueblo de pescadores en la costa de Ceará.

Sus playas eran casi desiertas hasta que hippies de varios lugares de Brasil la descubrieron en la década de 1970. Los siguieron los europeos que venían de vacaciones y terminaban quedando. Siguió siendo un paraíso conocido por muy pocos hasta hace unos diez años, cuando empezó a figurar en listas de las playas más lindas del mundo en publicaciones especializadas.

Cercada de dunas y lagunas de aguas cálidas, Jericoara está ubicada dentro de un parque nacional. No hay rutas hacia allá, solo arena por todos lados. Más allá de la naturaleza exuberante, y mucho por descubrir.

Nélida Piñón, escritora extraordinaria

Vila Isabel, Río de Janeiro, Brasil, (1937 – 2022) hija del comerciante Lino Piñon Muiños (Piñón Muñoz) y de Olivia Cuiñas Piñon, de origen español. Desde muy pequeña se sintió atraída por el mundo de las letras. 

“Comencé a escribir siendo aún una niña, leyendo los libros que me daban, inventando los que no tenía a mano […] con ocho años me proclamé escritora. No sé, sin embargo, en qué instante, y de qué abrigo, salió más tarde esta otra escritora que soy hoy, que aspira a abarcar los seres y los enigmas”.  

Nélida Piñón fue una firme defensora de los derechos humanos, especialmente los de la mujer, ha sido considerada por la New York Review of Books la mejor escritora brasileña y la revista World Literature Today le dedicó el primer número del año 2005. Entre los galardones recibidos se cuentan el premio de literatura latinoamericana y del Caribe Juan Rulfo (1995), el más importante de América Latina (fue la primera mujer en recibirlo y el primer autor en lengua portuguesa); el premio Menéndez Pelayo (2003), en reconocimiento a su labor como docente e investigadora en el campo de las humanidades y a su obra de creación literaria, y el Príncipe de Asturias de las letras (2005), “por su incitante obra narrativa, artísticamente sustentada en la realidad y la memoria, y también en la fantasía y los sueños”. 

Piñón debutó en el circuito literario en 1961 con Guía-mapa de Gabriel Arcanjo, una novela sobre el pecado, el perdón y la relación de los mortales con Dios a través del diálogo entre el protagonista y su Ángel de la Guarda. 

Nélida, reflexiona con sinceridad: “Escribo por el gusto de ser feliz, de ser otro. Porque uno no puede ser uno mismo toda la vida, hay que ser muchos. Hay que tener la vocación de la multiplicidad. Y la literatura permite que tú ingreses en el mundo ajeno del vecino. O sea, de alguna manera reduce el área del misterio. No aclara el misterio porque el misterio es superior a nuestra habilidad de traducirlo. Pero la lectura me parece un deslumbramiento, es la capacidad de poder interpretar lo que hasta entonces ignorabas”. 

Sostiene que a pesar de participar en algunos encuentros políticos a los que la invitan, “nunca” deja de ser escritora. “Las ideas las propago sin cobrar -dice-, porque quiero un mundo mejor”. Finalmente refiriéndose a los migrantes filosofa: “los inmigrantes del siglo XIX e inicios del XX tuvieron un sueño, un sueño que para ser concretado requería una fuerza extraordinaria, una renuncia hacia su propia vida, hacia su propio pueblo y origen para descubrir las Américas por ejemplo”. 

Su novela La república de los sueños, está Inspirada en su visión de la emigración gallega a Brasil, la obra, que obtuvo el premio de la Asociación de Críticos de Arte de Brasil en 1985, es, en palabras de la propia autora, “una novela deliberada […] Yo sabía que para llegar a ella me tenía que preparar, y lo hice a lo largo de muchos años de mi vida. Era un proyecto grande que abarcaría dos continentes, 300 años, o más, porque hay aspectos en esa novela que llegan hasta el siglo XII”. Roberto Ayón Ballesteros

Tags: BrazilSouth America
Previous Post

MSU President and Pete Buttigieg Discuss the Auto Industry

Next Post

America’s Gestapo

Mariana Ayón RV

Mariana Ayón RV

Mexican poet and writer. Interested in hispanic-latinamerican cultures. Settled in Mexico, she is currently studying a Master's Degree in History.

Related Posts

Education

The Morning After Graduation: What do 1,000 graduates mean for the future of Southwest Detroit?  

by EL CENTRAL
July 5, 2026
0

Southwest Detroit graduates are shaping the future of the community. Discover why graduation is only the beginning and what comes...

Read moreDetails
Emergency responder wearing a helmet and backpack walking across a large field of debris and rubble.
Español

Ann Arbor Asylum-seeker Deported Hours Before Venezuela Earthquakes Dies in Building Collapse

by Erick Díaz Veliz
July 5, 2026
0

A Michigan family's American dream ended in heartbreak after deportation and disaster in Venezuela

Read moreDetails
Two women unveiling a green Michigan Historic Site marker reading "Dra. Lucile Gajec" by pulling away a red, green, and blue striped serape, with a young boy watching beside them.
Español

A Museum, A Memory, A Marker: Honoring Dr. Gajec’s Lifelong Mission

by EL CENTRAL
July 2, 2026
0

Lucile Gajec historical marker honors the Southwest Detroit historian who preserved Latino heritage for generations

Read moreDetails
Wide view of a crowd watching a band perform on an outdoor stage under a banner reading "We Tell These Truths: All Humans Are Created Equal," trees and buildings in the background.
Español

The Concert of Colors Neighborhood Series Presents “We Tell These Truths: All Humans Are Created Equal”

by EL CENTRAL
July 2, 2026
0

Concert of Colors Detroit united Southwest Detroit with La Santa Cecilia, local artists and a celebration of culture

Read moreDetails
Español

 United States of America

by Mariana Ayón RV
July 2, 2026
0

Southwest Detroit graduates are shaping the community's future. Discover why graduation is only the beginning and what comes next

Read moreDetails
Education

¿Se está perdiendo el español en Estados Unidos?

by EL CENTRAL
June 30, 2026
0

Español en Estados Unidos se debilita entre generaciones latinas mientras crece el inglés. ¿Se está perdiendo el idioma?

Read moreDetails
Next Post

America's Gestapo

ADVERTISEMENT
  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest

Volunteers Needed for Refugee Resettlement in Michigan

February 14, 2024

Why We Celebrate “CINCO DE MAYO, THE 5TH OF MAY”

May 2, 2024
Steve Nagi Vanessa and Joanna Velazquez

Infamous Highwaymen Motorcycle Club Leader Pursues a Second Chance at Life

February 1, 2024

MSHDA Opens $60 Million MI Neighborhood Applications

April 4, 2024

Community and RuboFest 2022 

0

“Vemos a México como un socio igualitario”

0

Ford Hispanic and Latino Network Beautifies Clark Park

0

Editorial Opinion “The Fifth, I take the Fifth”

0
Motorized tricycle taxis carrying passengers pass each other on a wide Havana street lined with weathered colonial-style buildings.

Cubans Raise Their Voices Amidst the Darkness of Sanctions

July 7, 2026

Southwest Detroit Business Association Honors Community Investment Leaders 

July 7, 2026
Frank Venegas and Ideal Steel Employee Francisco Orozco

For 30 years, Frank Venegas Jr. has demonstrated that business success and community investment can grow together

July 7, 2026

Assembly for Hope Ratifies Statewide Policy Platform to Support Immigrants

July 5, 2026
ADVERTISEMENT
Motorized tricycle taxis carrying passengers pass each other on a wide Havana street lined with weathered colonial-style buildings.

Cubans Raise Their Voices Amidst the Darkness of Sanctions

July 7, 2026

Southwest Detroit Business Association Honors Community Investment Leaders 

July 7, 2026
Frank Venegas and Ideal Steel Employee Francisco Orozco

For 30 years, Frank Venegas Jr. has demonstrated that business success and community investment can grow together

July 7, 2026

Assembly for Hope Ratifies Statewide Policy Platform to Support Immigrants

July 5, 2026

The Morning After Graduation: What do 1,000 graduates mean for the future of Southwest Detroit?  

July 5, 2026

Born in the U.S.A. : The Supreme Court did the right thing, but four are dangerously off their rockers

July 5, 2026
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
EL CENTRAL Hispanic News

Michigans #1. Oldest. Largest & Only
Bilingual Hispanic News for 33 Years.

Follow Us

Browse by Category

  • Business
  • Classifieds
  • Community
  • Culture & Arts
  • Education
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Español
  • Events
  • Featured
  • Finance
  • Food
  • Latest News
  • Local News
  • Local Small Business
  • Music
  • National News
  • Opinion
  • Others
  • People
  • Politics
  • Resources
  • Restaurants
  • Sports
  • Throwbacks
  • World
  • World Cultures

Recent News

Motorized tricycle taxis carrying passengers pass each other on a wide Havana street lined with weathered colonial-style buildings.

Cubans Raise Their Voices Amidst the Darkness of Sanctions

July 7, 2026

Southwest Detroit Business Association Honors Community Investment Leaders 

July 7, 2026
  • Latest Issue
  • Newsletter
  • Advertise
  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms
  • MHCC Member
  • Created with EyeBreatheDesign

© 2026 EL CENTRAL HISPANIC NEWS

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Sections
    • Featured
    • Local News
    • Community
    • Culture & Arts
    • Español
    • Music
    • Sports
  • Events
  • Latest Issue
  • Past Issues
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Cookie Policy
  • Terms of Service

© 2026 EL CENTRAL HISPANIC NEWS