1:21 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Peru|Spain|TV · 8 Comments
29 Nov 2006
Just when you thought you’d seen the last of Laura Bozzo, the controversial host of the now defunct Laura en America, she’s back and ready to reinvent herself on the Iberian peninsula. She had been bragging about her prospects of working in Mexico, but like any good malinchista (not sure what the Peruvian version of that would be) she’s opted for Spain instead.
Telecinco, one of Spain’s more popular networks (which boasts lots of other telebasura offerings) has snatched la Bozzo up for a new show.
Laura Bozzo became famous in Spain thanks to the “channel surfing” programs and to the Crónicas Marcianas show in which they featured scenes from the Peruvian talk show in which everyone ends up hitting each other. There was always a couple of “gorillas” [bouncers] who would try to keep the peace (or not) when the brawls would break out.Now it seems that Telecinco has the intention of contracting her services, according to what Bozzo herself has told Peruvian press.
11:51 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|mexico|Politics · 8 Comments
29 Nov 2006Good God, what’s going on in Mexico? Looks like Mexico’s congressional tribunal was the scene of an knock-down, drag-out brawl as leftist politicians attempted to impede conservative President-elect Felipe Calderon’s inauguration. Pictures are worth a thousand words in this case.
Felipe Calderon’s inauguration as President of Mexico went through a grotesque event when “diputados” from the left and the right went to blows with each other in the congressional tribunal where the swearing in was going to take palce. The leftists’ objective was to impede the inauguration ceremony of Calderon. However, members of the PAN, Calderon’s party, blocked them with pushing and screaming, and finally both groups remained in the room, swearing that neither will leave.
This just makes me sad. I won’t pretend to be objective. I am angered at the fact that the Mexican left can’t catch a break because corruption is built into the system. And, I can identify with those who were so pissed they wanted to do something at the last minute (harken back to our own “democratic” elections), but unfortunately, after months of protest and other acts of civil disobedience, it may be time to call it quits.
Check out the video on El Universal.com.mx.
Via / El Confidencial
Image: Marcos Delgado
11:30 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · children|Internet · Comments Off
29 Nov 2006Thankfully the fact that there is only one computer in my house that I’m always on saves me from worrying about my daughter being online too much but acording to a study released today by the University of Southern California, many parents feel their hijos are in front of the computer too much.
21 percent of adult Internet users with children believe the kids are online too long, compared with 11 percent in 2000.About 80 percent of the children say the Internet is important for schoolwork, although three-quarters of the parents say grades haven’t gone up or down since they got Internet access. Forty-seven percent of the adults say they have withheld Internet use as a form of punishment
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8:33 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba|Politics · 1 Comment
29 Nov 2006
Yesterday kicked off the official celebration of Fidel Castro‘s 80 years of life in La Habana, Cuba but the leader of the Caribbean nation was not at the Karl Marx theatre to blow out the candles on his cake. Porque? Just as many predicted, Fidel is allgedly still too ill to make any oublic appearances.
I direct myself to you, intellectuals and prestigious personalities of the world, with a dilemma,” said the note.“I could not meet with you in a small locale, only in the Karl Marx Theater where all the visitors would fit and I was not yet in condition, according to the doctors, to face such a colossal encounter,” it added. The reading of the message was broadcast live on state television.
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