Archive for September, 2006
Paulina Rubio: P Blonde la españolita
12:26 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Chismes · Comments Off
27 Sep 2006
I’ve been hearing all over that Paulina Rubio has changed her name to P. Blonde. WTF?
I first heard it in the background on some Telemundo show, so I Googled it and a lo and behold:
En los agradecimientos que Pau firma se autonombra P. Blonde —”muy chic”— al estilo JLo.
Maybe I just hate these celebrity nicknames — JLo, P Diddy, Big Daddy — but what was wrong with Paulina Rubio? It’s a nice enough name. And the gangsta-ness of the “P” gets a bit diluted by the adjective “blonde”, which conjures up images of Anna Nicole Smith or Marilyn Monroe. Real badass.
Meanwhile, in Mexico everyone is hating on Pau for having recently developed a fake Spanish accent. Her CD is number one is Spain now (selling 80,000 copies in just one week), so perhaps adopting the local lexicon helped that along.
On another random note, and I know I’m probably late to the game, did you guys know that Pau was also doing Pro-Active Solution commercials a la Jessica Simpson?
Calderon Against Border Wall
10:48 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Immigration|mexico · 1 Comment
27 Sep 2006
The “official” Mexican President-elect, Felipe Calderon, weighed in yesterday on plans to add additional fencing/walls along the border between Mexico and the United States.
We are worried … about the actions that the United States is discussing concerning building a border wall and tightening restrictions on migrants.
Calderon made the statement afer a meeting with his country’s foreign secretary. Calderon is not convinced that the placement of additional physical barriers will lessen the amount of traffic through the border. United States Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist set up a possible vote late this week on a proposal to erect fencing along a third of the U.S.-Mexican border.
Sounds like more band aids instead of real aid.
Via / Yahoo! News
Puerto Rican Numbers (If not Power) Keeps Growing in the United States
8:23 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cities|Puerto Rico|society|States · Comments Off
27 Sep 2006
One of the largest growing sectors of the Latino population in the United States isn’t coming in from Mexico as Pat Buchanan and friends would like you to believe, but rather are U.S. citizens. According to a public policy study by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) released yesterday, the U.S. Puerto Rican population grew nearly three times as fast as the overall population.
Puerto Rican population growth was fastest in states that have not been locations of traditional settlement. Fast Puerto Rican growth took place in states such as Nevada, Rhode Island, Florida, Georgia, Arizona, Tennessee, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Virginia. Puerto Ricans grew in these mostly Sunbelt states at rates that fluctuated between 300 percent and 400 percent between 1980 and 2000. The ten fastest growing counties in the survey were located in Florida (eight) and Pennsylvania (two). Puerto Rican growth was slowest in states of traditional settlement, such as New York , New Jersey , Illinois or Hawaii . The slowest growth counties were also located largely in these states.
Mexican Elections: Hard to believe there was no fraud
12:28 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|mexico|Politics · Comments Off
26 Sep 2006
Mexico City’s La Jornada newspaper reports that some U.S. observers find it hard to believe that Mexico’s recent presidential elections weren’t tainted by fraud:
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington, which is comprised of economists, for the most part Americans, did an analysis of the data published on the website of the “Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación” (Electoral Tribunal), on which it found that, after the recount of more than 11 million polling places, “there was a significant reduction in votes” for presidential candidate Felipe Calderón.
The controversy swirling around these elections seems to have come to a head, and months later the leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is still refusing to accept defeat. Meanwhile, the CEPR says that
the analysis proves that the result of the presidential election “are inexplicably biased.”Patrick McElwee, of CEPR’s research group, says that the results of the sampling should be analyzed to see how votes were counted. “We can’t confirm that there was fraud, but it’s very hard to think of any other explanation.”
For those of you who are lost in the maze that is the Mexican election, take a look back at the various posts we’ve done over the past few weeks for some clues.
Via / La Jornada
Image via Martinoticias.com
Have You Read Your Biblia Today?
12:22 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Marketing|Religion · Comments Off
26 Sep 2006
I didn’t realize there was a shortage of Bible reading Latinos but apparently it must be because according to a press release in my inbox today Word Records (a Warner Bros./Curb co.) group Salvador is partnering with the American Bible Society on its “La Biblia Es Mi Guía” (“The Bible Is My Guide”)
national advocacy campaign designed to promote Bible reading among
Hispanics.
“La Biblia Es Mi Guía” is a national Bible advocacy campaign focused on reaching Latinos in strategic cities (New York, Miami, and Los Angeles) by partnering with prominent Latino figures to disseminate the Bible language. The campaign promotes additional outreach through popular internet sites like MySpace.com. Additionally, the American Bible Society
will use its Bless a Bodega campaign to distribute free bible reading
materials to neighborhood businesses in each of these key cities.
Wow bless the bodega? And just in time for Hispanic/Latino Heritage month. Reminds me of those Universal Church commercials that are always inviting me to get my pedacito of the papel milagroso.
Via / Hispanic PR Wire
Shakira nominated for 6 Latin grammies
12:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Events|Music · Comments Off
26 Sep 2006
For all of you out there who are fed up with hearing Hips Don’t Lie, you’ll have to get used to the fact that it ain’t going anywhere anytime soon. That’s because Shakira has been nominated for 6 Latin Grammy awards this year, so you’ll be hearing it in lead up ad nauseum, though it wasn’t nominated (is it because it’s in English?) giving way to La Tortura.
Second in line with the most nominations are several old faves, each with four nods:
Poetic singer/songwriter Ricardo Arjona, Argentine rocker Gustavo Cerati and Mexican pop/alternative chanteusse Julieta Venegas with four nods each. Cerati’s album, “Ahi Vamos,” will compete in the album of the year category against Shakira and Venegas’ “Sal y Limon.”
The awards will air on Univision on November 2nd, and since God knows they won’t give us press credentials, we’ll likely be live-blogging it from our couches.
Via / Yahoo! Entertainment and Billboard
Does MTV Tr3 Deliver All It Promises?
10:09 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Marketing|Music|TV · 7 Comments
26 Sep 2006
Yesterday MTV Tr3 went live with much hype. The channel formally known as MTV Espanol promises to be the music canal with bilingual sabor, its own programming and its own VJ’s for Latinos like me, who speak English and Spanish and like our media that way.
The MTV shows “My Super Sweet 16″ and “Pimp My Ride” will be offered, along with “Quiero Mis Quinces,” a show about quinceañera parties, and “Pimpeando,” which shows off car culture. Subtitles will appear when Spanish is spoken.
While I have yet to see the offerings for myself (my cable co. doesn’t carry MTV Tr3), the offerings don’t sound that original. When I did watch MTV Espanol, it was to hear and watch some of my favorite Latino artists that I couldn’t see anywhere else, not to watch people act the reality tv fool.
Hugo Chavez: Book publicist
12:19 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books|Controversia|Politics|Venezuela · 1 Comment
25 Sep 2006
While American media is still reeling over Hugo Chavez‘s declaration before the U.N. that George W. Bush is “the devil”, and the rest of the world struggles with the question of which camp to put the Venezuelan president in — hero or loco — celebrated author Noam Chomsky is sitting pretty. He has Chavez to thank for a recent spike in sales of his 2003 book, Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance, as the leader plugged it during his appearance at the U.N., calling the work “an excellent book to help us understand what has been happening in the world throughout the 20th century … and the greatest threat looming over our planet.”
According to AFP:
News reports said the book, published in 2003, leapt from 26,000 to number one following Chavez’s headline-making speech in which he railed against US “imperialism,” saying “the hegemonic pretensions of the American empire are placing at risk the very survival of the human species.
And according to Reuters:
By Thursday, the book had risen from backlist obscurity to be the No. 3 bestseller on Amazon.com. Before the speech, the 2004 book reprinted by Owl Books was being outsold by thousands of other titles on the online bookseller’s Web site.
According to AFP, Chomsky himself said he would be “happy to meet” Chavez and that he finds many of his views “quite constructive”.
Via / Yahoo! News and Reuters
On Island and Off Boricuas Remember Filiberto and Demand Indepedence
11:35 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Events|New York City|Puerto Rico · 1 Comment
25 Sep 2006Thousands marched in Puerto Rico and hundreds marched in New York City on Saturday, September 23rd to remember and denounce the FBI killing of independence leader Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, who died a year ago to the date. The date also marked the 168th anniversary of El Grito de Lares when Puerto Ricans rebelled to demand independence from Spain in 1868. While hundreds in NYC marched from Times Square to the United Nations singing, dancing and chanting “La lucha sigue, Filiberto Vive” and “Todo boricua machetero”, in Lares, Puerto Rico the chants and message were the same.
“These terrorists, that Yankee empire that wants to instill fear in us, they should know better. We won’t surrender,” Rosa Meneses, president of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, told supporters massed in Revolution Plaza, in the western mountain town of Lares.
Charlotte Observer Looks at one Immigrant Family
9:27 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · children|Controversia|Immigration|Internet|Justice|Newspapers|Women · Comments Off
25 Sep 2006
Understanding that Hispanic/Latino Heritage month is more than about food and dance and jumping off the interest in the Elvira Arellano case, today the Charlotte Observer is kicking off a 6-part immigration series with a look at how one family is torn apart by the mother’s legal status, and the agonizing decisions they must make once she’s deported to Guatemala.
It was March 26, a Sunday evening. Ten-year old Kayla was at her aunt’s house in Monroe, playing video games with her cousins. Her father, Ray, had just stepped in the front door. Her mother, Deysi, wasn’t with him.Less than an hour before, Ray and Deysi — his partner of 10 years — were driving back from a soccer match in Monroe. A state trooper stopped them for an expired tag, and Deysi was jailed for being in the U.S. illegally. Eight years before, a warrant had been issued for her arrest after she failed to follow through on paperwork requesting asylum.
Once again it’s important that these stories be told to put a human dimension to the issue of immigration because if it were left to the right wing pundits and the politicians it’s easy to ignore that these are family values and issues we are dealing with.
Catch the whole series at The Charlotte Observer
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