Archive for July, 2006
Eva Longoria Boycotts
11:26 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| TV · 1 Comment
27 Jul 2006
Earlier this month we wrote about how Latinos, including Eva Longoria, were nowhere to be found on the Emmy nominee roster. Seems the desperate ama de casa is so pissed off at the snub that she is boycotting the Emmy Awards ceremony. This is the second year in a row that the Texican has been passed over.
Via / Latina
VLMIL Candidate #16: Isabel Allende
8:08 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books| Chile| Polls2006| VivirLatino| literature · Comments Off
27 Jul 2006
Name: Isabel Allende Llona
Age: 63
Occupation: Writer
Place of Residence: San Rafael, California
Bio: From Wikipedia : “Allende was born in Lima to diplomat Tomás Allende who was a Chilean ambassador there. She is the niece of Salvador Allende, the President of Chile from 1970 to 73. In 1945, her parents separated, and her mother relocated with their three children to Chile, where they lived until 1953. The family later moved to Bolivia and then to Lebanon. She returned to Chile in 1958 to complete her secondary education, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Frías, whom she married in 1962. On September 11, 1973 , her uncle, Salvador Allende, was overthrown in the wake of a violent coup and during the capture of La Moneda (the seat of the presidency of Chile). In 1975, Isabel Allende went into exile in Venezuela. In 1981, Allende learned that her grandfather, age 99, was on his deathbed. She started writing him a letter that later evolved into a book manuscript, The House of Spirits (1982). The book was a great success and was later made into a film (The House of the Spirits, 1993) by Danish director Bille August. The movie starred Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Winona Ryder, Glenn Close and Antonio Banderas. During a visit to California in 1988, Allende met her current husband, Willie Gordon, a lawyer, and has lived in San Rafael since then. In 2003 she obtained U.S. citizenship.”
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.”
McConaughey: Penelope pressured me
5:18 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Chismes · Comments Off
25 Jul 2006
Last month we told youthat Spanish actress Penelope Cruz and Texan actor Matthew McConaughey had split. At that time, the couple cited pressures caused by having a long-distance relationship as the key factor influencing their break-up. Now, Matthew is saying that the pressure was of an entirely different kind: it was Penelope pressuring him to get married. According to LaBotana.com:
According to online magazine Famapop, the reason for the breakup between Spanish actress Penélope Cruz and actor Matthew McConaughey, was the pressure that “Pé” put on him to talk about wedding plans.Matt said in a recent interview that he wasn’t ready to take that big step, meanwhile Cruz told the press in her country that her greatest desire was to get married and have a family.
It’s nice to know that Hollywood men are just like ordinary men. They hear the word “marriage” and run for the hills.
Via / LaBotana.com
VLMIL Candidate #13: Luis Miguel
2:19 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Polls2006| VivirLatino · Comments Off
25 Jul 2006
Name: Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri
Age: 36
Occupation: Pop singer
Place of Residence: Acapulco, Mexico
Bio: From Wikipedia: ..”a Mexican pop singer best known for his crooning vocals and romantic ballads. He has been the most popular singer in Latin America since the late 1980’s. He is commonly referred to as El Sol (”The Sun”) and is also nicknamed “El Rey” (The King), Luismi, Micky, “El Idolo” and “Luismi Rey.”
Luis Miguel has won some of the most prestigious music awards, such as: nine Grammys (5 Grammys, 4 Latin Grammys); a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at the age of 26 and three World Music Awards. Luis Miguel holds the record as the best-selling living performing Latin artist in history. Luis Miguel has sold over 55 million albums worldwide and he is the best selling Spanish-language artist in the history of the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Luis Miguel holds the record for the artist with the most #1 singles in the history of Billboard charts Hot Latin Tracks.”
Immigration Lies and Truths
10:57 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Immigration| Internet · Comments Off
25 Jul 2006
Just in case the war in Lebanon and Miss. Puerto Rico becoming Miss Universe distracted you, AlterNet reminds people that the immigration issue is far from dead by exposing some lies surrounding the issue and setting them straight. The Six Immigration Lies, Dispelled are:
1. Immigrants are not animals
2. Neither are they terrorists
3. Tent cities at the border would be 21st-century concentration camps.
4. There’s no invasion
5. They speak English, just not “English only.”
6. They do not drain public coffers
These are all things that we have written about before, but they are worth repeating.
Via / AlterNet
VLMIL Candidate #12: Evo Morales
8:51 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bolivia| Politics| Polls2006| VivirLatino · 1 Comment
25 Jul 2006
Name: Juan Evo Morales Ayma (Aima)
Age: 46
Occupation: President of Bolivia
Place of Residence: La Paz
Bio:
Juan Evo Morales Aima was born October 26, 1959 in the community of Isallavi, Orinoco, Oruro to Aymara parents Dionisio Morales Choque and Maria Mamani. From a young age Evo worked with his family as a farmer. After a high school trip to the Presidential Palace in La Paz, Evo told his classmates, “One day I will be president and you will be my ministers”. After serving in a military, growing coca , Evo became a union leader. It was here when he became a coca activist, and was even nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in both 1995 and 1996. From here Evo earned a seat in the Bolivian Congress. In January 2002, Morales was removed from his seat in Congress, because of a charge of terrorism related to anti-eradication riots in Sacaba that month in which four coca farmers, three military soldiers and a police officer were killed. The U.S. was accused of being behind his expulsion. From here he ran for President. In 2002 he came in second place. In 2005 he won.
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