Archive for February 21st, 2007
Colombian Vacations A Hard Sell
6:06 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia|Drugs|Marketing · 5 Comments
21 Feb 2007
While many people around the globe plan vacations to exotic Latin American locales, Colombia usually isn’t one of them. According to one article, this can be at least partially the fault of the drug related crime in the South American nation or the world’s perception of that crime at the very least.
Colombia is seen abroad as a narco economy on a par with Afghanistan, and when what news reaches the world’s press is of a drug lord gunned down in MedellÃn or a backpacker kidnapped by guerrillas in the jungle. Colombia continues to supply America with 90% of its cocaine and 60% of its heroin. As long as these products remain criminalised, it will always be easier for the west to curse and corrupt Colombia for producing them rather than cure itself of consuming them.
Costa Rica steamed over South Park episode
5:30 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Costa Rica|TV · 13 Comments
21 Feb 2007
Costa Rican government officials don’t think South Park is one bit funny. Why? Because a recent episode places the characters in the Carribean country declaring, among other things, that it smells…”like ass”:
The main characters, a group of children, are on a trip to San San José, capital of the Central American country, aboard a bus from which a teacher shows them the city.The woman explains that Costa Rica is a third world country, as the children observe through the windows prostitutes, shantytowns and trash, and they complain of the smell “of ass” that they detect in an unidentified government building.
Government officials are not amused. According to Spain’s 20 Minutos, Costa Rica’s Tourism Minister, Carlos Benavides, put it like this:
“We should look at it as the trash that it is. It’s a program of that nature on a network designed for people with a lowly upbringing and bad customs.
Via / 20 Minutos
NYU Republicans Play Racist Games
1:54 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Education|Immigration|New York City · 9 Comments
21 Feb 2007
Yesterday Jen wrote about an alarming new trend in colleges and universities across the country, racist parties. Not even my home city, traditionally liberal NYC, can escape the trend. The New York University Republicans are hosting a game called “find the illegal immigrant” Thursday. According the the event announcement on the college networking site, Facebook :
There will be one individual with a nametag that reads ‘illegal immigrant’. This person has volunteered to do so and is not actually an illegal immigrant. On Thursday people will be signing up to participate and the first person that signed up and finds the “illegal” will get a prize. At the table there will be information and handouts on the subject matter to inform others on the problems that ILLEGAL immigration causes.
Nashville mayor vetoes English-only, calls it “mean-spirited”
12:43 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|language|Politics|States · Comments Off
21 Feb 2007
Nashville‘s music industry might have turned its back on our friends the Dixie Chicks, but the city’s mayor has shown himself strong against English-only activists who were looking to call attention to the rise in immigration:
Even supporters acknowledged that the bill to make English the official language of Nashville was mostly a symbolic slap at illegal immigration.But even that was too much for Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell. He vetoed the measure, saying it was unconstitutional, unnecessary and mean-spirited.
“This ordinance does not reflect who we are in Nashville,” Purcell said.
The Metro Council passed a measure 23-14 last week that would have required all government communication to be in English. But there was a huge loophole: The bill allowed multilingual communication whenever required by federal rules or when needed “to protect or promote public health, safety or welfare.”
The Mayor sent the vetoed bill back to the City Council where he says he hopes “it will remain, never to be seen again.”
Via / CNN
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