Archive for August 29th, 2006
Gringo Wedding
8:47 pm By Maegan La Mala · Movies · 2 Comments
29 Aug 2006
The beautiful Ana Lucia Dominguez, who you might know from Telemundo’s “Deciciones” series is staring in a new romantic comedy coming out sometime this fall. The movie, Gringo Wedding, is your standard white man, Justin Kane, looking for ethnic love movie.
The synopsis, as you can imagine, is pretty simple. He goes to Colombia, to find a real woman, and my my, he finds the most beautiful woman in the world. She of course falls for him, he’s tall, blonde, rich, the trifecta. They each poke fun at each other’s cultures. Oh, and they don’t speak each other’s language. In comes, the token gay man, Sebastián Boscan, who does the translating for them, and I’m sure provides overly done comic relief. There are scenes of her on a hacienda, and the horses and green spaces that make novelas seem so dreamy. Her dad, Julio del Mar, is opposed to the idea, and at one point in the trailer says something about “bring me my gun!” Of course, he probably comes to see the errors of his ways…
But a movie is never just a movie…
Governors Mull Over Border Security
1:10 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration · 1 Comment
29 Aug 2006
Last week, governors from the US and Mexico border met in Austin, TX for the 24th annual meeting of the Border Governors Conference. Ten border governors from the U.S. and Mexico border met for two days to discuss economic and security issues facing the two countries. The conference involves the governors of California, Arizona, New Mexico and the Mexican states of Sonora, Baja, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.
Traditionally these conferences focused on interests like trade, agriculture, water, the environment, education and health, science and technology since the Border Governors Conference began in 1980. With a debate raging in the US over the immigration policy, it is not a surprise border security dominated the talks this year.
Chavez Wants to Know Where U.S. $$$ is Going
12:14 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Venezuela · Comments Off
29 Aug 2006
The U.S. government is sending millions of aid dollars to Venezuela. What is not clear is exactly who is getting this money.
Details of the spending are contained in a 1,600-page document of 132 grant contracts, released under the Freedom of Information Act. But names and details of nearly half of those who received money have been blacked out.US officials say this was done because the Chavez government would harass or prosecute the grant recipients if they were identified.
Fair enough except I don’t think the U.S. follows it’s own lead when it comes to money coming into the U.S. (not to mention the U.S. being concerned about how other countries spend their money). Does Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez have a right/reason to be concerned?
Latino Stereotypes Following Us to Work
8:57 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Careers|Labor|race · Comments Off
29 Aug 2006
Are there “Latino values” or is that just a broad mish-mash of ideas based on both the diversity that is found within the Latino community and on stereotypes? How does this idea of “Latino values” follow us into the workplace? A recent survey by the National Society for Hispanic Professionals (NSHP) asked just this question.
When I worked in investment banking as an analyst, one day I was called into the office of my managing director. I thought one of two things was going down. I was being fired for my big mouth or I was getting a promotion for my work, especially since I was the only Spanish speaker in an area that was closing deals with banks and companies in Latin America. I hadn’t anticipated the third option, the option that meant that no matter how well I worked I still would be viewed as “other”. My managing director called me into his office so I could tell his Latina maid what she had to do that day.
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