Archive for March, 2007
Gilberto Gil Live At Carnegie Hall
1:09 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Events|Music|New York City · Comments Off
21 Mar 2007
It isn’t too often that a member of a political cabinet performs in a NYC concert hall and when that person is Brazil’s Minister of Culture and named Gilberto Gil, you go to that NYC concert hall. Last night I had the pleasure of seeing the 64 year old founder of the Tropicália genre perform with his guitar to a sold out audience in Carnegie Hall.
Gil, who sang in Portuguese, Spanish, and English captivated the audience in a performance that was interactive, with Gil playing call and response throughout. The show had its humorous moments like when Gilberto Gil poked fun at his own age by singing a cover of the Beatles’ When I’m 64. The show also had its political moments, like when Gil shouted out political prisoners during his Portuguese/English rendering of Bob Marley’s No Woman, No Cry.
Say Hola to Miguelito
12:23 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Chismes|Magazines · Comments Off
21 Mar 2007
It’s time to meet the baby Suri of the Latino world. After months of wondering if Luis Miguel and Aracely Arambula really had a baby (since the family is so elusive), the first images of baby Miguelito have appeared in the Mexican edition of Hola! magazine. You’ll remember this is the same magazine that got exclusive rights to show off Aracely’s big belly.
And just how much did the rag, I mean mag have to shell out to feature the first familia of Mexican pop? According to some sources just 3 million dollars. Like the couple needs that money. Now if I were to ask for a few million for picture rights to my equally (if not more so) cute baby, I would be accuses of pimping my baby. Just goes to show you how celebs roll.
Via / Univision.com
Almodovar takes to the streets to protest war
1:45 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Spain · Comments Off
20 Mar 2007
He didn’t make it to the Oscars, the Golden Globes or the Goyas, but Spanish superstar director Pedro Almodovar did attend an event of a different kind this past Saturday in Madrid. Almovodar led a group of around half a million of his fellow Spaniards in saying no to the war in Iraq:
Almodovar told the private Europa Press news agency he was protesting “the barbarities they have been committing in Iraq for the past four years.”“We’re here for peace and for the closure of Guantanamo because it is a disgrace for civilization,” he added.
Spain currently has no troops in Iraq, as President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero pulled all of his men from the region back in 2005, which makes the protest and the fact that Spaniards — famous or not — continue to pressure world governments to pull out of Iraq all the more admirable.
Today, 300 senators and officials from all Spanish political parties except the right-leaning PP (ousted from government after the March 11th, 2004 terrorist attacks) came together on the steps of the Congreso de los Diputados in Madrid to protest the war as well.
Via / Yahoo! Entertainment
NYC Latinos Stand Up By Sitting In for Sean Bell
10:54 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Justice|New York City · 4 Comments
20 Mar 2007
All to often in the mainstream media, the issue of police brutality is painted as a black and white issue when in reality it is an issue impacting all people of color. The most recent highly publicized police killing of Sean Bell in Queens, NYC last November has long time police brutality activists and communities of color across the city organizing and calling out a pattern and practice of racially based police killings.
The recent indictments against three of the five officers who fired 50 shots at Bell on the eve of his wedding have left some in the Latino community justifiably unsatisfied. Some showed their dissatisfaction by committing and act of civil disobedience by blocking the entrance to the Queens Criminal Court in Kew Gardens.
Los Desaparecidos Found in El Barrio
1:53 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Arts|history|New York City · Comments Off
19 Mar 2007
Across Latin American countries military dictatorships (often with unofficial help for the U.S. government) disappeared tens of thousands of men, women and children. An exhibit, currently on view at NYC’s El Museo del Barrio, presents a multimedia remembering of the desaparecidos now through June 17.
The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos) gathers 14 contemporary living artists from seven countries in Central and South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Uruguay and Venezuela), all of whose work contends with the horrors and violence stemming from the totalitarian regimes in each of their nations during the mid- to late-20 th century. Some of the artists worked in the resistance; some had parents or siblings who were disappeared; others were forced into exile. The youngest were born into the aftermath of those dictatorships. And still others have lived in countries maimed by endless civil war. These artists whose work is represented in the exhibition are Marcelo Brodsky , Luis Camnitzer , Arturo Duclos , Juan Manuel Echavarría , Antonio Frasconi , Nicolás Guagnini , Nelson Leirner, Sara Maneiro , Cildo Meireles , Oscar Muñoz , Ivan Navarro , Luis González Palma , Ana Tiscornia and Fernando Traverso . Also included is a collaborative installation Identity/Identidad by a collective of 13 Argentinean artists.
Latino Presidential Candidate Richardson Shows Himself as Gay Friendly
10:47 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · GLBT|Politics · 1 Comment
19 Mar 2007
New Mexico Governor and Democratic presidential contender Bill Richardson wants an end to the U.S. military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.
“I voted against it when I served in Congress,” Richardson told the AP in Santa Fe, referring to the ban on openly gay service members, signed into law by then-president Bill Clinton in the 1990s. “People should not be judged based on their sexual orientation. Throughout my entire career I have fought for equal rights and against discrimination of any kind.”
Richardson added that Pace’s remarks were “unfortunate” and called on President Bush to condemn them. In his interview with the AP he also pointed to his own pro-gay record: his support of civil unions and his signing into law a state measure that provides civil rights protections for gays and lesbians.
Mexico City politicans: Depenalize abortion
9:07 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|mexico|Religion|Women · 2 Comments
19 Mar 2007
It’s still hard for me to believe that abortion is illegal in Mexico, but I guess that’s because my idea of Mexican society is linked to (relatively) liberal Mexico City. In the capital, the head of the PRD, Mexico’s leftist party, has announced that he will support a bill in the assembly to “depenalize” abortion:
The local PRD leader said that he calls on those who oppose the initiative and threaten to protest to take into account that this is a fair demand, as thousands of deaths occur each year because of botched abortions.He also said that the PRD doesn’t want a confrontation with anyone, on the contrary, “we respect all points of view, but we are going to create an awareness campaign for the public, because this really is a polemic topic and it needs wide reach.”
He said that’s why it’s the local assemblymembers’ job to establish a system for listening to different opinions and defining the process to approve depenalization of abortion in all cases, so that the woman be the one who decides if she will terminate her pregnancy or not, with a limit of 14 weeks of gestation.
As was to be expected, the Catholic church in Mexico City called the bill “an abominable crime” and vowed to oppose it and the PRD’s call to make the “abortion pill”, known as RU-486, legal.
Via / La Jornada
Chavez Won’t Let Up On the Name Calling
1:11 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics|TV|Venezuela · Comments Off
16 Mar 2007
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez isn’t best known for his diplomacy especially when it comes to his word choice. He’s called President Bush the devil and a political cadaver most recently. Tonight on ABC’s 20/20 , Barbara Walters sits down with Hugito where he (surprise) name calls some more.
Bolivia Doesn’t Want the World to Have a Coke
12:54 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bolivia|business · Comments Off
16 Mar 2007
The Bolivian constitution is being rewritten and that could impact business world wide. How? One of the provisions being pushed by the constitutional committee would ban foreign companies from using the name of their sacred coca plant.
Margarita Teran, head of the Coca Committee, told daily newspaper La Razon she was dismayed that Coca-Cola can sell soft drinks worldwide without restrictions while Bolivia is barred from exporting products made with coca.
Such a law is not unheard of. It’s what keeps sparking wine from being called champagne, for example. What’s different here is that coca is placed in the same catagory as opium and cannabis by the U.N. and that prevents its legal export, even when it’s not in cocaine. President Evo Morales is trying to change that by pushing coca leaf products. The U.S. ain’t having it though even though currently the U.S. is the number one market for coca’s most well known use, as an illegal drug.
Via / MSNBC
Pennies from heaven in Brazil
11:13 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Money · Comments Off
16 Mar 2007
A plane crash in rural Brazil left many thinking that a miracle had occurred. The accident took place in an area where thousands of “sin tierra“ (landless) farmers live, and from the sky came down $2 million dollars in cash:
The plane, used for the transportation of money, crshed and the inhabitants of the town where it crashed made off with part of the booty. When the emergency crews arrived, a large part of the money had disappeared.…The accident might have been just another statistic if it weren’t for its cargo: $2 million dollars in Brazilian currency. There isn’t a trace left of the money, which was spread all about the countryside and was quickly snatched up by the inhabitants of the area.
At times, fate is just. Apparently the police made a sweep of the nearby town looking for the money and have only come up with a couple thousand dollars, though one farmer returned a bag containing $50,000 to police.
Via / 20 Minutos
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