Archive for November 27th, 2006
Famed Mexican TV star dead
4:59 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|mexico|TV · Comments Off
27 Nov 2006
As reviled as he was loved, it’s an undeniable fact that Raul Velasco, host of the famed Mexican variety show Siempre en Domingo was an important figure in Mexican popular culture. Some say he’s guilty of destroying Mexican popular culture. His death Sunday marks the end of an era for Mexican television and for many 20-30-40-somethings who first saw their favorite Mexican stars make their debut on Siempre en Domingo:
Raul Velasco, who hosted one of Mexico’s most popular and enduring television programs, “Siempre en Domingo,” died Sunday at his home in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco, his network said. He was 73.Velasco, whose variety show has been compared to “The Ed Sullivan Show,” was credited with launching many of Mexico’s biggest pop stars to fame by having them appear on his show, which was broadcast from 1969-1998.
Gay telenovela in Spanish and online
12:52 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · GLBT|Internet|language|Spain · 2 Comments
27 Nov 2006
In this age of pick and choose content, many are saying if what you want to see on TV doesn’t exist, create it yourself. And that’s just what a group of guys from Valencia, Spain have done; they’ve created a Spanish-language online gay soap opera based on Queer as Folk (video after the jump):
One month was enough for seven Valencian communications students to reach the height of popularity on the internet with their online miniseries Lo que surja (LQS), a replica of the popular series Queer as folk.With no budget with lots of enthusiasm, these seven young people illustrate the lives of a group of gay friends.
Mapuches Vs. Microsoft
8:12 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · business|Chile|language · 2 Comments
27 Nov 2006
Microsoft Corporation isn’t making any friends in Chile after it rolled out a Windows software package in Mapudungun, the langauge of the Indigenous Mapuches who are mostly based in the south of the South American nation.
At the launch in the southern town of Los Sauces, Microsoft (Charts) said it wanted to help Mapuches embrace the digital age and “open a window so that the rest of the world can access the cultural riches of this indigenous people.”
But Mapuche tribal leaders have accused the U.S. company of violating their cultural and collective heritage by translating the software into Mapudungun without their permission.
They even sent a letter to Microsoft founder Bill Gates accusing his company of “intellectual piracy.”
Rafael Correa Looking Like Winner in Ecuador Elections
5:27 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Ecuador|Politics · Comments Off
27 Nov 2006
This morning it looks like the second round of the presidential election in Ecuador puts lefty Rafael Correa winning against wealthy Bible toting, self-proclaimed “hero of God” Alvaro Noboa.The returns showed Correa with as many as twice the votes recorded as his rival, who claimed the polls were rigged. This marks another victory in Latin America for left of center politicians who have aligned themselves with the politics and personalities of firebrands and “enemies” of the U.S. like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro.T
he election, which pitted Correa against billionaire banana tycoon Alvaro Noboa, was watched closely in the US. Correa had promised to disregard a free trade agreement with the US and close down a US military base in the country. Correa’s win means Ecuador joins Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Nicaragua, and Venezuela on the list of countries that have also elected leftist presidents in recent years.
Via / The Christian Science Monitor
Image Via / La Jornada
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