Archive for July 26th, 2006
Hateful billboard campaign hits Tucson
4:59 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Immigration| States · 10 Comments
26 Jul 2006
In Arizona, a state that’s home to more than one million Latinos, a firestorm is brewing over the placement of a billboard off of Tucson’s Interstate 10 which proclaims: “Stop the Invasion, Secure Our Borders”.
The billboard, was placed by a group called Grassfire.org, an organization that claims its mission “is to impact key issues in our nation by equipping hundreds of thousands of citizens with tools that give our partners a real impact on issues.”
Steve Elliott, president of grassfire.org says, “I think those six words express the sentiment of literally millions of people and I would say the vast majority of people in Tucson.”Grassfire raised roughly $150,000 to put 12 of the billboards in 7 states.
VLMIL Candidate #15: Carlos Slim
12:54 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Money| Polls2006| VivirLatino| business · 3 Comments
26 Jul 2006
Name: Carlos Slim Helú
Age: 66
Occupation: Billionaire businessman
Place of Residence: Mexico City
Bio: Carlos Slim Helú was born the son of Lebanese immigrant shop owners in Mexico City. From Wikipedia: “His father Julián Slim (Yusef Salim) Haddad, a Lebanese Maronite Christian, fled as a teenager to Mexico City in 1902, to escape the harsh military rule of the Ottoman Turks. Julián established a dry goods store called La Estrella del Oriente (Star or the Orient) in 1911, and shrewdly bought up some prime real estate in the city centre. Julián married the daughter of another prosperous Lebanese merchant, and had six children, of which Carlos was the fifth.”
Violence Against Women in Peru
11:47 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Family| Justice| Peru| Women · Comments Off
26 Jul 2006
According to a post up on Feministing yesterday, violence against women in Peru has reached epidemic proportions. In some parts of the nation well over half the women report being abused physically and/or sexually. Some of the causes are related to poverty and a justice system that does not punish offenders.
Sexual violence against women in Peru is now so bad that Peru’s President-elect Alan Garcia, who takes office Friday, made it one of his central campaign issues and has vowed to tackle the problem and give women a greater say in government.
Too bad it takes so many women being hurt to make a head of state take notice. Let’s see if Alan Garcia will be all talk.
Via / Feministing
Image Via / BBC Mundo
VLMIL Candidate #14: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7:31 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books| Polls2006| VivirLatino| literature · Comments Off
26 Jul 2006
Name: Gabriel José García Márquez
Age: 78
Occupation: Novelist, journalist, publisher, political activist
Place of Residence:Bogota, Mexico City,Cuernavaca, Barcelona, Paris, Havana, Cartagena, and Barranquilla
Bio: From The Modern World,”Gabriel José García Márquez was born on March 6, 1928 in Aracataca, a town in Northern Colombia, where he was raised by his maternal grandparents in a house filled with countless aunts and the rumors of ghosts.” It was perhaps this background that led to Gabo being credited with introducing magical realism. Via Wikipedia, “García Márquez began his career as a reporter and editor for regional newspapers—El Heraldo in Barranquilla and El Universal in Cartagena. Later he moved to Bogotá and worked for the daily El Espectador, then worked as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York City. His most commercially successful novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad) (1967; English translation by Gregory Rabassa 1970), has sold more than ten million copies. It chronicles several generations of the Buendía family who live in a fictional South American village called Macondo. García Márquez won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 1972 for One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982, with his short stories and novels cited as the basis for the award.”
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