Archive for June 14th, 2006
Selena : The Musical
1:41 pm By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities|Culture|theatre · 6 Comments
14 Jun 2006
I cried when Selena was taken from this world, pero I also think that the cult of the Tejana artista who was murdered in 1995 can go a little too far. The latest incarnation of Selena products is a musical which is set to tour through Mexico and the Southwest U.S. later this year and into next year. The musical was produced in Mexico by Federico González Compeán. Compeán said of the musical with 30 dancers and actors:
Se trata de una historia muy sencilla y simple, popular, que no se plantea contar nada diferente porque sobre Selena Quintanilla (1971-1995) todo está dicho. Lo que sí queríamos era no hacer del asesinato el momento más trascendente, si bien es imposible obviar su relevancia.
My concern is where is all the money that is going to be generated from this musical going to go?
Via / Vida Latina
Magazines say little about Latinos
1:02 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Magazines|Media · Comments Off
14 Jun 2006
Last weekend I noticed that there were no less than 12 Latino-related stories in the New York Times‘ Sunday edition — from the Style section, to the Week in Review to just about every part of the paper. Not so the case with weekly news magazines, according to a study by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists:
A study commissioned by a Hispanic journalists’ association has found that the three main newsweekly magazines ran very few stories about Hispanics last year despite the growing importance of the Latino population.The five-month study, due to be released Wednesday, found that only 18, or 1.2 percent, of the 1,547 stories that appeared last year in Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report were predominantly about Latinos.
Carolina Sandino Moreno to star in “Cholera”
11:17 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Colombia|Movies · 1 Comment
14 Jun 2006
Producers of the screen version of García Márquez‘s classic Love in the Time of Cholera — slated to being filming soon with Spanish actor Javier Bardem — are said to be courting Colombian Oscar winner Carolina Sandino Moreno for the role of Hildebranda:
Catalina Sandino Moreno, an Oscar nominee for her film debut in “Maria Full of Grace,” is in talks to join the cast of “Love in the Time of Cholera,” based on the novel by Nobel laureate and fellow Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Sandino Moreno will also star in the screen version of the bestseller Fast Food Nation, set to be released this year.
Via / Hollywood Reporter
Guatemala: Another Juarez, Mexico?
14 Jun 2006
Over the last five years at least 2,000 mujeres have been murdered in Guatemala. The majority of these women have been poor young women found with body parts missing including their breasts. So is Guatemala becoming another Ciudad Juarez, Mexico? And why is the mainstream media not covering this story? The answer is that obviously the mainstream media doesn’t consider the murders of Latina women important but a delegation of U.S. advocates does and will be travelling to Guatemala to call attention to the crimes against women there and to the fact that over the past five years only 14 of these murder cases have been solved. Juana Batzibal, a human rights lawyer with the Center for Legal Action on Human Rights (CALDH) in Guatemala City said:
The gall with which these women are killed is telling women that they shouldn’t be on the street, that they should go back home.
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