Archive for July, 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 MedellÃn
Bio: From Wikipedia: “Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez, is a Colombian singer ,songwriter and guitarist born in MedellÃn. 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 GarcÃa, 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.
Via / People
VLMIL Candidate #9: Salma Hayek
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.”
Fidel Proves He’s Not Dead Yet
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
VLMIL Candidate #8: Alberto Gonzales
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.
Juanes gets knighted in France
7:18 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Colombia|france · Comments Off
20 Jul 2006The man who a lot of women consider their ideal knight in shining armor has been knighted in the true sense. Colombian rockero Juanes received earlier this week one of France’s highest honors, becoming “Knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters”, awarded him by the Ministry of Culture and Art.
He may be a knight, but he’s not getting all big-headed about it:
True to his humble nature, Juanes shared that he was surprised to be getting the decoration. “I am just a musician who enjoys what he does, and a Colombian who dreams and fights for peace in his country, nothing more,” the star said.
France has bestowed this award upon Juanes because of his “significant contributions to the arts.”
I think it’s pretty amazing that an artist receive this decoration so (relatively) early in his career, and this goes to show that you don’t have to sing in English to “cross over”.
Via / Sofia News Agency
VLMIL Candidate #7: Shakira
1:57 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Music|Polls2006|VivirLatino · 1 Comment
20 Jul 2006
Name: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll
Age: 29
Occupation: Singer
Place of Residence: Miami and Colombia
Bio: From Wikipedia: “Shakira was born in Barranquilla, Colombia to a Colombian mother Nidia del Carmen Ripoll Torrado of Catalan descent and an American-born father William Mebarak Chadid of Lebanese-Macedonian descent. She was one of seven siblings, one of which is her road manager. Shakira began writing and composing music at the age of eight.” And Shakira’s been writing and performing ever since. She hit the big time in Latin America in the 90s, and really made her mark on the world when she decided to take the plunge and record an English language version of her hit album “Donde están los ladrones”. From there, Shakira has risen to the level of international music icon, taking her place among the biggest stars in pop music, and boasting pop history’s most played song.
Spanish Prime Minister Takes Sides in Mid-East Conflict
1:21 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Politics|Spain · Comments Off
20 Jul 2006
As the conflict between Israel and Lebanon continues to escalate, one Spanish Prime Minister is making his position on the situation known and is taking some heat for it. Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was recently photographed wearing a Palestinian scarf. This combined with his comments that Israel is using “abusive force which does not allow innocent human beings to defend themselves” has people calling the Socialist prime minister an anti-Semite. It certainly is a complex history that Israel has with its neighbors, however doesn’t it seem that whenever anyone criticizes Israel they are called an anti-Semite?
Via / News24.com
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