4:27 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Polls2006| VivirLatino · Comments Off
21 Jul 2006
Name: Salma Hayek Jimenez
Age: 39
Occupation: Actress and Producer
Place of Residence: Los Angeles
Bio: From Wikipedia: “Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico to a Lebanese father and a Mexican mother. Raised in a wealthy, devoutly Catholic family, she was sent to the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Grand Coteau Louisiana, at the age of 12. She was also an accomplished gymnast, with aspirations of becoming an Olympic competitor.
After leaving the school due to alleged behavioral problems with the religious sisters who ran the school, Hayek returned to Mexico for a period, but then she was sent to Houston, Texas, to live with her aunt, where she stayed until she was 17. She subsequently moved to Mexico City for college, where she studied International Relations. To the chagrin of her family, she decided to drop out in order to pursue a career as an actress.”
11:13 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Latin America| Politics · Comments Off
21 Jul 2006
Don’t buy the hype. Despite rumores going round that Cuban president Fidel Castro passed from this world, Fidel showed that he ain’t dead yet by making a surprise appearance at Latin American trade talks in Argentina.
Castro’s surprise visit to Argentina honors the induction of Venezuela into Mercosur, the highlight of talks that start Friday. The addition gives the South American trade bloc a decidedly leftist tilt a decade after it emerged during a wave of pro-U.S. free trade sentiment.
Also appearing at the summit is Bolivia’s socialist President Evo Morales and obviously Hugo Chavez. And look all three Latino leaders are nominated as VL’s most influential Latinos!
Via / Yahoo! News
7:35 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics| Polls2006| VivirLatino · Comments Off
21 Jul 2006
Name: Alberto R. Gonzales
Age: 50
Occupation: Attorney General of the United States
Place of Residence: Washington D.C.
Bio: From Wikipedia: “Gonzales was born in San Antonio, Texas and raised in Humble, near Houston. He was the second of eight children born to Pablo and Maria Gonzales. His father, who died in 1982, was a construction worker. Both his parents were children of immigrants from Mexico with less than a high-school education themselves; in the midst of a national debate in the US about immigration from Mexico, Gonzales told Wolf Blitzer on CNN that no immigration documentation exists for three of his grandparents and they may have entered and resided in the United States illegally” But that never stopped Gonzales from moving forward. A veteran of the Air Force and the only one of his siblings to graduate from college, Gonzales graduated from Harvard Law School in 1982. When he was appointed general counsel to then-Texas Governor George W. Bush, that paved the way for a career with the shrub, becoming Texas Secretary of State in 1997 and finally to be named to the Texas Supreme Court in 1999, both appointments made by Governor Bush.
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