Archive for October 19th, 2006
Latino voters intimidated in California
1:01 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · California|Controversia|Immigration|Politics · 9 Comments
19 Oct 2006
Greetings from the great state of California, where some members of a certain infamous county’s GOP think it’s okay to threaten people over mail and scare them away from the polls. They aren’t getting away with it, though.
It seems that a Vietnamese immigrant running for Congress (check out the awesome photo of him after the jump, courtesy of his website) on the Republican ticket in Orange County thought that sending anti-immigrant hate mail to Latino voters would be a productive way to sway the polls his way:
State investigators have linked a Republican campaign to letters sent to thousands of Orange County Hispanics warning them they could go to jail or be deported if they vote next month, a spokesman for the attorney general said.“We have identified where we believe the mailing list was obtained,” said Nathan Barankin, spokesman for Attorney General Bill Lockyer.
Laura de America spills the beans in Spain
11:28 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Chismes|Peru|Spain|TV · 2 Comments
19 Oct 2006
Latin America’s favorite trash TV host, Laura Bozzo, is ready to tell all about her controversial relationship with Fujimori crony Vladimiro Montesinos, but she won’t do it on this side of the world. Fearing further punishment (one must suppose), Laurita has chosen to speak the truth to a Spanish television network, and is in Madrid today (that’s her arriving in the photo) to do just that:
Bozzo told EFE that she will tell “unrevealed details” about her private life and “about the most difficult moments” that she went through after being linked to the corruption network of ex presidential advisor Vladimiro Montesinos, on the TV show “Dónde estás corazón?” on Antena 3.
I just hope she doesn’t reveal any sexual “details” as that mental picture might be too much for us to all handle. The show airs on Friday.
Even though Laura is still under house arrest, for some reason she can travel through Peru without a problem, and enter Europe on her Italian passport. This is a contrast to what happened when she tried to come to the U.S.
Apparently, Laurita is doing really well professionally in spite of everything that’s happened. According to El Periódico de Puerto Rico, she has a book deal (an autobiography called “Resistiré” — “I Will Survive”) and radio and TV deals in Mexico. And, according to this article, she wouldn’t turn down the opportunity to work in Spain.
Spain has so much trash on TV that I really don’t think there is room for Laura, but who knows.
For all of you who are on pins and needles with respect to what Laurita will reveal, I’ll be back with details as they become available.
Via / El Periódico de Puerto Rico
Photo via El Mundo
More $ Being Sent Home by Immigrants
10:56 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Money · Comments Off
19 Oct 2006
According to an article in today’s New York Times, not only are immigrants (regardless of status) sending more money back to their Latin American homelands, but the money s being sent from more areas of the U.S. than in years past.
“Twenty years ago the money was coming from four or five states; now it’s coming from every corner of the country,” said Sergio Bendixen, a Miami pollster who surveyed some 2,500 immigrants, legal and illegal, for the survey on which the report was based.
According to some the amount sent back to Latin America is expected to reach the $45 billion mark, more than half of what was sent only two years ago. The article also goes into a little bit of the cultural significance of the remesas, citing how not sending money back is a sign of being a “bad” family member.
Via / The New York Times (Registration required)
Babasonicos : Mi Capricho
19 Oct 2006
I’ve loved Argentino rock band los Babasonicos for years now. So I’m super excited about their redone website (ya era tiempo) which includes such goodies as videos, like for the song Capricho, that features a girl who looks creepily like the girl who crawled out of the well in The Ring movies.
Check out the Babasonicos Capricho
Via / Mun2
Hola!
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