Archive for January 11th, 2007
Shakira Wins Yet Another Award : People’s Choice
6:08 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Music · 6 Comments
11 Jan 2007
Is anyone else getting a little tired of Shakira. Don’t get me wrong, I think she’s beautiul and talented and respect much of her humanitarian work but I think my hips have had enough of Hips Don’t Lie (or maybe my daughter just plays Shaki’s music too damn much). The general population can’t seem to get enough the Colombiana and her caderas. Shakira and her song were granted the People’s Choice Award in the catagory of Pop Song of 2006 on January 9th in Los Angeles. Shakira wasn’t presente at the ceremony because she’s in Europe prepping for her tour there.
Via / Univision
Luis Miguel is a daddy
6:02 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Chismes · Comments Off
11 Jan 2007
The moment you’ve been waiting for the past 9 months has finally arrived: Luismi has offically reproduced. The deets, according to 20 Minutos, are: boy, born at Cedars Sinai in L.A., C-Section, weighs about 7 lbs and is about 20 inches long. Name? Miguelito.
As expected, press everywhere is clamoring for a photo of little Miguelito.
Meanwhile, El Brujo Mayor — a popular Mexican psychic that creeps me out to no end — is predicting that Luismi and Araceli are on the road to destruction, and will break up some time in 2007.
Via / 20 Minutos
Image via People en Español/Alberto Tolot
Latinos On Bush Bolstering Iraq Troop Numbers
4:08 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics · Comments Off
11 Jan 2007
I, like many people last night, tuned in to listen to President Bush announce the deployment of at least 20,000 more troops into Iraq. Also watching were many people of color, including Latinos, who are being agressively targeted for recruitment into to U.S. military. Just this morning I witnessed two young men of color inside a local recruiting station being chatted up to sign on that dotted line. While my personal opinion is that more troops will only serve to make a bad situation worse and cost people’s lives unjustly, according to an article in today’s El Diario/ La Prensa, Latino opinion in NYC is mixed.
Forget the Apple a Day. A Chile a day keeps the Cancer Away.
2:43 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Food|Health · Comments Off
11 Jan 2007
Like your food spicy? If so you may be preventing illnesses like cancer compared to those who like their comida on the blander side, at least according to a study released by British Nottingham University. The key is capsaicin, an ingredient from jalapeno peppers that kills cancer cells. Eating a daily diet rich in these foods explains, according to the study, why countries like Mexico and India have a low incidence of certain types of cancer.
Via / Univision.com
Image Via / Alternative Complementary Medicine
Chavez loco for socialism
12:23 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics|Venezuela · Comments Off
11 Jan 2007
Now that Hugo Chavez has been re-elected as president of Venezuela, he’s got one word on his tongue more than ever: socialism. It seems he can’t stop talking about it and he is just as quotable as ever:
President Hugo Chávez was sworn in to a new six-year term at a ceremony here on Wednesday in which he described Jesus as “the greatest socialist in history” and pledged to speed Venezuela’s metamorphosis into a Socialist country.
Sometimes I wonder if makes this stuff up with George W. Bush (aka “Mr. Danger”) in mind.
As much as he’s relating Jesucristo to socialism, Chavez isn’t too cozy with the Catholic church in his country:
He railed against his domestic political opponents and dissidents in the Roman Catholic Church, singling out Archbishop Roberto Luckert of Coro, who recently criticized the president’s decision not to renew the broadcast license of RCTV, one of Venezuela’s oldest television stations.“Monsignor Luckert is going to wait for me in hell,” he said.
Why does translated Chavez sound funnier than Chavez in Spanish?
Via / NYTimes and theCardinal’s Corner
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