Archive for February 8th, 2007
U.S. Shows Its Poder Over Mexico via Futbol
7:07 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico|Sports · 2 Comments
8 Feb 2007
Last night I was ready with my Mexican beer and food to watch the Mexican national futbol team, under soccer legend (and big mouth)Hugo Sánchez, kick the U.S. team’s behind. Well, that’s not quite how it went down (thankfully I didn’t put money on the game). The U.S. team beat Mexico , 2-0, thanks to Bobby Conrad and Landon Donovan. The game was played to a sold out crowd in the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
Via / Univision.com
Tijuana : Border City and Art Center?
5:09 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Arts|Events|Los Angeles|mexico · Comments Off
8 Feb 2007
When most people think of Latin American art, big cities like Buenos Aires and Mexico City come to mind. An exhibit currently on exhibit at the Santa Monica Museum of Art features 50 works by 20 contemporary artists from the art center of Tijuana, Mexico. The border city popularly known more for its pharmacies and night clubs than for its visual arts, is full of experimental visual artists.
Maps and scale models play a prominent role, allowing artists to move freely between their imaginations and reality. Photo-collages and dioramas by Guatemala-born architect and urban planner Teddy Cruz suggest a flexible future in which recycled things increasingly meet the needs of a growing population. A more ominous future is evoked by the surveillance-style video projected onto a topographic model of the border region by Torolab, an artist collective founded by Raúl Cárdenas-Osuna in 1995. “The Region of the Transborder Trousers” uses humor and GPS technology, sewn into the pants of five participants, to track their movements over five days in 2004.
JLo to be honored for human rights work
2:30 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Celebrities|Women · 1 Comment
8 Feb 2007
JLo will receive a human rights award from Amnesty International for her work in bringing attention to the strange disappearances and murders of hundreds of women in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez:
Lopez will receive the Artists for Amnesty award Feb. 14 at the Berlin Film Festival from Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta. The film “Bordertown” will make its debut Feb. 15 at the festival.In “Bordertown,” Lopez plays an investigative journalist reporting on the serial killings of women in the border city of Juarez, Mexico. Directed by Gregory Nava, the film also stars Antonio Banderas and Martin Sheen.
Is it just me, or does JLo seem to have gotten more “deep” since she married Marc Anthony?
Via / Yahoo! Entertainment
Image: JLo on the set of Bordertown – Credit Grosby Group
Cuban doctors flee Venezuela, ask U.S. for asylum
11:35 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba|Politics|Venezuela · 1 Comment
8 Feb 2007
45 visiting Cuban doctors sent by Castro to help out in rural areas of Venezuela have fled to Colombia, from where they hope to ask the U.S. government for asylum.
According to 20 Minutos, the doctors’ exodus wasn’t organized, as they have been leaving Venezuela into Colombia one by one, where they are allowed to stay for a maximum of 6 months.
To date, the U.S. government has not granted asylum to any of them, and the International Herald Tribune reports that in spite of a policy change which allows for Cuban medical professionals working abroad to enter the U.S. after a routine background check, they are currently in a limbo waiting for a response and at least 2 doctors have already been rejected.
Why did they flee? They say they didn’t plan it that way, but that they were being treated poorly:
“We couldn’t call our families or go out after 5 p.m. The Venezuelan national guard and Cuban authorities watched our every move,” Viamonte said. “We never planned on abandoning our duty, but we got tired of being treated like slaves.”
Via / 20 Minutos and IHT
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