College of the Canyons Department of Modern Languages & Cultures

05/06/2026

Lingua Society Cultural Fest!

04/11/2026

03/15/2026

Welcome! 🌷

11/02/2025

🍂 Fall 2025 AATSP So Cal Conference! Truly a wonderful day with colleagues. 🤗

10/22/2025

10/11/2025

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

The committee described the activist as a “woman who keeps the flame of democracy going, amidst a growing darkness.”

From the Nobel Peace Prize website: Maria Corina Machado has led the struggle for democracy in the face of ever-expanding authoritarianism in Venezuela. Ms Machado studied engineering and finance, and had a short career in business. In 1992 she established the Atenea Foundation, which works to benefit street children in Caracas.

Ten years later she was one of the founders of Súmate, which promotes free and fair elections and has conducted training and election monitoring. In 2010 she was elected to the National Assembly, winning a record number of votes. The regime expelled her from office in 2014. Ms Machado leads the Vente Venezuela opposition party and in 2017 helped found the Soy Venezuela alliance, which unites pro-democracy forces in the country across political dividing lines.

In 2023 she announced her candidacy for president in the 2024 presidential election. When she was blocked from running, she supported the opposition’s alternative candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia. The opposition mobilised widely and collected systematic documentation that it was the true winner of the election. The regime declared victory and tightened its grip on power.

Ms Machado is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize first and foremost for her efforts to advance democracy in Venezuela. But democracy is also in retreat internationally. Democracy – understood as the right to freely express one’s opinion, to cast one’s vote and to be represented in elective government – is the foundation of peace both within countries and between countries.

Machado went into hiding after the Venezuelan government moved to crush dissent following last year’s election. The Nobel Committee chair said he is not sure whether Machado will be able to attend the prize ceremony in Norway in December.

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10/09/2025

IFF opens on October 24th!

09/26/2025

CougarFest ( last week ) at the Valencia campus! 🌻🌺

09/24/2025

“For most of history, anonymous was a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf

09/01/2025