Archive for October, 2006
Spanish city opens shelter for abused men
4:25 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Family|society|Spain · Comments Off
20 Oct 2006
The Spanish city of León is opening up Spain’s first shelter for male victims of domestic violence, and “positive discrimination” (affirmative action), according to 20 Minutos. The center will also house men who are separated or divorced and having a hard time making it:
The first center will open in León, and the project has a budget of 1.5 million euros.There are also plans to open other similar centers in Barcelona, Valencia, Alicante, Madrid, Murcia, Cádiz and Sevilla, depending on projects supported by various support groups for separated fathers throughout Spain.
According to the Centristas group, the organization in charge of the shelter, the centers will provide housing, legal help, professional development programs and a business center for residents.
Earlier this month, Spain’s constitutional tribunal admitted debate on whether or not domestic violence laws in the country discriminate against men.
A few Spanish sites are popping up on the internet which claim to support abused men and denounce feminism.
Meanwhile, to date, 59 women have died in Spain at the hands of their partner or ex partner this year.
Via / 20 Minutos and Instituto de la Mujer
MTV Latin Music Awards: Butts and Glory
3:15 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Events|Media|mexico|Music|TV · 1 Comment
20 Oct 2006
Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes was the site of the MTV Latin Music Awards last night, which held more than a few surprises for viewers. The biggest: British pop star Robbie Williams showed the world his butt:
Williams, who took home the award for best international pop artist last night, mooned the crowd of around 10,000 people during his performance of his song “Rock DJ.”
Unfortunately, since we don’t have MTV TR3S and therefore weren’t able to see the awards, you’ll have to settle for just a rundown of winners.
Best Solo Artist: Julieta Venegas
Best Group or Duet: Panda
Best Pop Artist: Kudai
Best Rock Artist: Mana
Best Alternative Artist: Panda
Best Pop Artist – International: Robbie Williams
Best Rock Artist – International: My Chemical Romance
Best New Artist – International: James Blunt
Best New Artist – North: Allison
Best New Artist – Central: Fonseca
Best New Artist – South: Axel
Best Artist – Central: Juanes
Best Artist – South: Gustavo Cerati
Breakthrough Artist: Panda
Promising Artist: Calle 13
MTV Tr3s Viewer’s Choice Award: Don Omar
Song of the Year: Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean – “Hips Don’t Lie”
Video of the Year: Mana – “Labios Compartidos”
Artist of the Year: Daddy Yankee
MTV Legend Award: Mana
Surprising: Julieta Venegas was nominated for six awards but received only one, the one I expected to be bestowed upon Shakira.
Not surprising: Shakira’s Hips Don’t Lie as Song of the Year
Via / MP3.com
Image via 20 Minutos
Venezuela : The Next Terror Threat?
8:59 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Venezuela · Comments Off
20 Oct 2006
According to a congressional report released yesterday Venezuela could be next to have its name put on the Axis of Evil list as a “potential hub of terrorism”. According to the report Venezuela has been providing documents to alleged terrorists that have allowed them to enter into the United States through the Texas/Mexico border. The report, put together based on expert opinions, media accounts and testimony from U.S. authorities, specifically says people from Cuba, Colombia and “Middle Eastern terrorist harboring nations” have been found entering with Venezuelan social security cards.
I don’t know if this is part of the U.S.’s larger campaign against Venezuela mating with revived border control anti-immigrant sentiment but it sure seems like it.
Via / El Diario/La Prensa
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
Brits get down with telenovelas
6:47 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · TV|World · Comments Off
18 Oct 2006
In an affirmation that telenovelas are truly crossing into the mainstream (as evidenced by the recent success of ABC’s “Ugly Betty”, an adapation of the famed Colombian novela “Betty la fea”), the UK’s most important network, the BBC, is going to do some skanky soaps of their own, in an effort to bump up ratings:
…BBC is investing millions in its own telenovela, working on several ideas with famous screenwriters and has put British playwright Jonathan Harvey in charge of developing the project with the Talkback Thames independent production company.The director of the BBC’s fiction division, Jane Tranter, says that the series will follow the structure of a telenovela.
“We will know how many epidodes it will have from the beginning; a beginning, a twist and plot points, but we will tape each episode a couple of days before broadcasting it.”
According to EFE, the advantage of the Latin American telenovela structure is that is has a definite end date, which helps boost ratings, instead of going on forever until viewers eventually disappear.
If they really want to make a good telenovela, they need to scrap the renowned playwright, take a plane to Mexico and meet with Televisa writers. They know how to write a good novela. They created the formula that doesn’t fail. Why reinvent the wheel?
Via / Terra EFE
Buenos Aires kids get early sex ed
1:39 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina|children|Education|sex · Comments Off
18 Oct 2006
Students in Buenos Aires, Argentina are going to start learning about the birds and the bees earlier than their counterparts in other countries — at age 5.
The Argentine congress has approved, with the backing of all of thecountry’s political groups, a law that makes sex education mandatory in all public and private schools in Buenos Aires.The classes will begin in March, and their content — still to be defined — will be adapted to the age of the students, according to Argentine daily Clarín.
The legal text says that the classes will be “pedagogical activities aimed at promoting sexual health, with the integration of the physical, emotional and intellectual and social aspects related to sexuality to promote personal well-being through communication and love”.
According to Spain’s 20 Minutos, the law also states what cannot happen in these classes:
…invading the privacy with the pretext of education, imposing conducts or ideologies in violation of human rights, or promoting prejudices or sexual stereotypes.
Via / 20 Minutos
Queens, NYC Latino Bebe named 300,000,000th U.S. Resident
12:30 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Events|Immigration|New York City · 5 Comments
18 Oct 2006
Born of Mexican immigrant parents at 7:46 yesterday morning in Elmhurst, Queens, NYC, Emanuel Plata was declared by El Diario/La Prensa as the 300,000,000th U.S. resident.
“Me siento muy orgulloso”, dijo el padre Armando Jiménez, de 25 años, originario de Puebla. “Para nosotros los inmigrantes es muy importante que un niño latino sea el número 300 millones, por el debate de inmigración en que estamos”.Emanuel, que pesó 3 kilos y 140 gramos, midió 47 centímetros y nació por cesárea, es el tercer hijo de la pareja formada por Armando y Gricelda Plata, de 22 años de edad y también originaria de Puebla.
Little Emanuel bwas born at the time resident number three hundred million would be born according to the the U.S. Census Bureau.
Via / El Diario/La Prensa
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