Archive for January, 2007
Juan Gabriel almost Humptied again
5:43 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Chismes| mexico · Comments Off
29 Jan 2007
Our beloved JuanGa was close to reliving last year’s terrible incident – in which he “had a great fall” — at a recent concert in Puebla. Luckily, he left the building uninjured this time:
“I was going to faint but I did everything I could to control myself and I managed to do so, but I could not continue because I needed air,” Juan Gabriel wrote to fans on his Web site.
Puebla fans didn’t get to see the rest of the show, as JuanGa had to excuse himself.
According to a message on his web site, Puebla’s altitude made him ill, and he says that when he returns to the city he will make it up to his fans there.
Get well soon, JuanGa!
Via / Yahoo! Entertainment and JuanGabriel.com.mx
Radio industry rocked by Spanish language stations
4:32 pm By Maegan La Mala · Los Angeles| Miami| New York City| radio · 3 Comments
29 Jan 2007
While listening to a local radio station here in Miami, I noticed that they are constantly repeating the fact that they have placed in the top position on the radio chart yet again. Not being an expert in the radio industry, I decided to look up that claim and headed directly to Arbitron, the official stations rating format used to determine which stations are hot and which are not.
In Miami, the top spot belongs to AMOR 107.5, a Spanish-language radio station. It beat out every ‘mainstream’ radio station in the market. I received my confirmation about the Miami area, but got to thinking about the other parts of the United States that are heavily populated by the Latino community.
Brazil has 2 million biofuel cars on the road
12:08 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil| Environment · Comments Off
29 Jan 2007
While the U.S. may only now be talking about reducing its dependance on foreign oil, Brazil was thinking about it decades ago, and put in place a program designed to do just that. The genius idea was to pioneer a technology for vehicles which run on gasoline or on ethanol (alcohol) made from sugar cane. The BBC reports that Brazil is experiencing a revival in the use of these vehicles:
Ethanol-driven cars have been on sale there for 25 years, but they have been enjoying a revival since flex-fuel models first appeared in March 2003.Just 48,200 flex-fuel cars were sold in Brazil in 2003, but the total had reached 1.2 million by the end of last year and had since topped two million, the Brazilian motor manufacturers’ association Anfavea said.
Brazil incents buyers with a lower purchase tax on flex-fuel cars, which helps reduce pollution. However, some say that by using sugar cane to power cars, we are wasting valuable food supplies. And that it stinks. A lot.
Via / BBC News
Image via MSNBC/AP
Chile will house world’s biggest telescope
29 Jan 2007
We Latinos will celebrate anything. Google will start to build the world’s largest telescope in Cerro Pachón, Chile in 2009 and should have it completed by 2013. The telescope, called LSST (Large-aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope), will be ‘dozens of times more powerful’ than any telescope in existence. Google plans on capturing more than 30 terabytes of images every night on its 3000 mega pixel lens and broadcasting the real-time sights online for public viewing.
Many Chileans believe that this will put them on the map, as Google carefully calculated the best location for the telescope based on many criteria. It is still unclear if this will help Chile’s economy in any way or just offer the country bragging rights about having ‘the biggest’ in the world.
Laura Bozzo fired again…then re-hired?
4:49 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Chismes| Spain| TV · 1 Comment
26 Jan 2007
Earlier this year we told you how Laura Bozzo, Peru’s answer to Jerry Springer,
had sprung back from her firing from Telemundo by scoring a show on Spain’s Telecinco network. The show was set to launch this weekend, but alas, some bad — and mysterious — novedades:
Telecinco had everything in place to start airing its new show with polemic Peruvian host Laura Bozzo. However, it seems that at the last minute things have gone wrong and the network has decided to cancel the program after taping the pilot episode.
It seems that this is not just a simple delay, because according to Fórmulatv, the entire crew of the show has been fired. The show was supposed to air on Saturday afternoons…
And the nominees for best Latin American weblog are…
3:47 pm By Maegan La Mala · Blogs · 4 Comments
26 Jan 2007
The nominees for the seventh annual Weblog Awards have been announced and there are five finalists in the category of best Latin American Weblog. They are as follows:
Bibi’s Box – A collection of random thoughts, ideas, and pictures of a girl named Bibi.
Michael Simon on The Road – A photographer who travels on a bus from his home in New York to the most southern tip of Argentina and chronicles his trip with stunning pictures for readers to follow.
Megan Lyles – Michael’s fiancée who blogs from her perspective on the same trip that she and Michael experienced together.
Cooking Diva – The reigning best Latin American blog is once again nominated. Fill your eyes and get your appetites in motion by reading the delicacies and recipes this delicious diva offers.
Bestiaria – The only nominee who blogs in Spanish, Bestiaria provides readers with stories about women of all types.
I have my favorite, but don’t want to skew the voting in any way as they all deserve a fair chance at winning. Check out their blogs and vote for your favorite.
Evo denies relationship with ETA
2:03 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bolivia| Politics| Spain · Comments Off
26 Jan 2007
Bolivian president Evo Morales is denying ties to the Basque separatist group ETA, responsible for last month’s bombing of a Madrid airport parking lot and the deaths of over 800 people since 1968. The statement was in response to allegations by a Spanish newspaper that the group was seeking sanctuary in Bolivia:
The Spanish newspaper El Correo had reported that a lawmaker from Morales’ Movement Toward Socialism party visited the Basque heartland in June and met with members of Batasuna, ETA’s political arm.The lawmaker, Feliciano Vegamonte, did not respond to repeated attempts to reach him Tuesday.
A day earlier, he confirmed to a Bolivian TV station that he made the trip and met with “people from social movements” but was not aware of any ETA ties.
El Correo said that with Cuban leader Fidel Castro ailing, ETA fears it could lose the lone country that offers it sanctuary. So it is looking toward Bolivia as a possible alternative. The paper quoted unnamed Spanish security officials as its sources.
Morales stated that in the past he has been linked to the FARC, and that these allegations were also unfounded.
Via / CNN
Latinos beware: The NFL is out to get you
10:10 am By Maegan La Mala · Marketing| Sports · Comments Off
26 Jan 2007
Super Bowl XLI is on its way, and as we all know the game this year will be between the Chicago Bears and the Indianapolis Colts. Taking full advantage that the event is taking place at Dolphin Stadium in Miami, the NFL wants Latinos to start shifting from being ‘futbol’ fans to becoming ‘football’ fans.
NFL players will have to play nice during a touch football game scheduled between the football pros and the Telemundo pros. Novela actors and TV personalities will be pitted against the 300 pound tackling brutes of the NFL, all in the name of niche marketing.
There is a concert scheduled two days leading up to the main event, but don’t expect Jessica Simpson, Kelly Clarkson, or any other melanin-challenged celebrity to perform. This year, none other than Don Omar, Aventura, and Ivy Queen will be showcasing their talent and, the NFL hopes, hypnotizing Latinos to tune in next football season.
Spain changes sizes to help women’s health
5:51 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Health| Spain · 1 Comment
25 Jan 2007
Something great is going on in Spain: first the country’s most illustrious fashion show, Pasarela Cibeles banned ultra skinny models from the runways in an attempt to adjust the perception that being impossibly skinny is something women should aspire to. Now, the Spanish government is going a step further by requiring clothes companies to change the sizing system on clothes to better women’s health and self-esteem:
The program, designed by the Health Ministry, will also prevent those companies from using window displays featuring clothes smaller than a European size 38 (10 in Britain, 8 in the United States). They will have five years to phase in the change.
Taking Edumacation Seriously
25 Jan 2007
What is going with our young Hispanics in Massachusetts? Only 57 percent of Hispanic students in that state graduated in four years. The survey began back in 2002 and gathered the number of enrolled freshmen versus the seniors that graduated in 2006.
Education Commissioner David Driscoll had this to say:
“Until we can make a significant impact on keeping kids in school, we’re not going to really make the kind of inroad on the achievement gap,” Driscoll said. “There are a lot of kids who are falling through the cracks and we’ve got to begin there.”
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