Archive for January 3rd, 2007
Spanish Mami is World’s Oldest Mami
2:28 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · children|Family|Health|Spain|Women · 1 Comment
3 Jan 2007
Medical technology especially in the area of fertility treatments is allowing women who most likely wouldn’t be mothers have children. A 67 year old woman from Barcelona just broke the world record as the oldest mami by giving birth to a set of twins in Hospital de Sant Pau. The babies, genders and names unknown, were born via c-section after the woman underwent fertility treatments in South America.
Via / Univision.com
Image Via / Twins UK
Mexico: Street vendors set up shop on train tracks
1:56 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico · Comments Off
3 Jan 2007
File under “only in Mexico”, this is pretty shocking: street vendors in Cuautitlan, Mexico are operating their businesses on live train tracks:
In spite of the frequent passing of trains some 500 vendors set up their stalls on the train tracks and offer their merchandise to thousands od people who visit this market each week.The “tianguis” [outdoor market] sits 300 meters away from parallel tracks where on December 28th a crash between a passenger bus and a train took place, leaving 22 dead and nine injured.
According to Mexican daily El Universal, the vendors say “we have time to run,” and are referred to as “toreros” because of their way of evading the passing trains, and thus their deaths.
Via / El Universal
Image via Rageforst’s Flickr page
Ecuadorean terror victims will get Spanish citizenship
1:08 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Ecuador|Immigration|Spain · Comments Off
3 Jan 2007
Spain was rocked Saturday by a bombing at Terminal 4 of Madrid’s international airport, Barajas, in what looks to be the end of a truce between ETA and the Spanish government. Two of the victims in the attack were Ecuadorean immigrants, and now Spain is promising to grant the family members of the missing Spanish citizenship:
López Aguilar [Labor and Justice Minister] reminded the victims’ families that “the first time that terrorism hit foreign residents in Spain was with the March 11th attacks,” and that in this as well as that event the government “will do everything to make sure the family members receive Spanish citizenship.”“The two missing men are being searched for with insistence and in an effort that will not stop,” he said.
Georgia Police Learning Spanish
9:06 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bilingualism|Georgia|Justice|language · Comments Off
3 Jan 2007
As the population in the South of the US becomes more and more Latino so do the language needs of the area. For all the talk about the English only movement, the fact remains that basic services such as police and other emergency services need to be provided to all and need to oversome language barriers. Georgia is taking the lead in helping to train its police force and emergency telephone operators in speaking and understanding basic Spanish. According to the Univision article, most of the Spanish learned include basic words for car parts and orders like “drop that weapon”, which make me wonder if the police really want to help Spanish speakers or just pull more people over.
Via / Univision.com
Image Via / GACP
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