Archive for July 24th, 2006
The Problem Of Young Latinas
6:19 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Health| Women · Comments Off
24 Jul 2006
The New York Times picked up on a series run by NYC Spanish language daily, El Diario/La Prensa about a crisis happening in the Latino community. Especially impacted are young Latinas. According to a Federal study:
Hispanic teenage girls attempt suicide more often than any other group. They become mothers at younger ages. They tend not to complete their education. They are plagued by rising drug use and other social problems. A federal study found that a startling one in six young Hispanic women had attempted suicide, a rate roughly one and a half times as high as that among non-Hispanic black and white teenage girls. If there was any good news, it was that these young women usually survived.
VLMIL Candidate #11: Carlos Santana
4:44 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Music| Polls2006| VivirLatino · 1 Comment
24 Jul 2006
Name: Carlos Augusto Alves Santana
Age: 59
Occupation: Musician
Place of Residence: Marin County, California
Bio: From Wikipedia: “Santana was born to Jose Santana and Josefina Barragan in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico, and has two brothers – Antonio and Jorge – and four sisters – Laura, Irma, Leticia, and Maria. Carlos’ father played the violin,and was a part of a mariachi troupe. Young Carlos continued the family’s musical heritage, originally learning the violin before switching to the guitar when he was eight years old. After a family move to Tijuana Carlos performed occasionally with his fathers mariachi group on violin but grew to dislike it. Santana later played bass and guitar in strip clubs and bars in the Tijuana area and began his love of the American Blues, R&B, and Rock & Roll of B.B. King, Bobby Bland, Chuck Berry and Ray Charles. He was particularly impressed with a local blues guitar player, Javier Batiz. He remained in Tijuana when his family moved to San Francisco, California, but joined them at the age of thirteen.”
VLMIL Candidate #10: Juanes
12:45 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Music| Polls2006| VivirLatino · 1 Comment
24 Jul 2006
Name: Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez
Age: 33
Occupation: singer, songwriter, guitarist
Place of Residence: Miami and Medellín
Bio: From Wikipedia: “Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez, is a Colombian singer ,songwriter and guitarist born in Medellín. When he was younger, his father started calling him Juanes, rather than Juan, a contraction of his two first names Juan and Esteban. As his friends grew to know him by this name, he chose to keep it for his musical career, which started when he, Andrés García, Fernando “Toby” Tobón and José David Lopera, formed the rock band Ekhymosis.” Juanes went solo in 2000 after the band broke up. His debut album, Fijate Bien earned him three Latin Grammys. In the 2005 Latin Grammys, Juanes won three additional awards to his nine previous Grammy awards. Juanes just completed his world wide “Mi Sangre” tour and is resting up, but first he became a Knight in France.
Miss Universe passes out
11:26 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Events| Puerto Rico| Women · Comments Off
24 Jul 2006
It’s not particularly interesting to me that the newly crowned Miss Universe is Puerto Rican. My views on this pageant pretty much reflect those of my VL compañera, and the show is a cheese fest to boot, so I didn’t watch it. What I am more interested in is the fact that the winner, Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza, collapsed after her coronation. This interests me because I love drama, of course, and because I wonder if her losing consciousness was just the nerves and jubilation, or because she hadn’t been consuming any food in preparation for the event. Apparently, press had the same question.
“She’s okay. She’s fine,” pageant representative Lark Anton told Reuters. “She got dizzy. It’s very hot up here. Her dress is tight – as you could see it was beaded and heavy. She passed out.”Anton said Mendoza “had plenty to eat today,” when pressed for the beauty queen’s condition before she fainted at the center of the stage at the Shrine Auditorium…
Whether she was starving herself or not, the fact that this was a possibility is frightening, and is a terrible example for young girls who idolize these women.
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