Archive for April 3rd, 2007
Cuba and Spain becoming friends again
5:15 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba|Politics|Spain · Comments Off
3 Apr 2007
After a chilly stage in Cuba-Spain relations that’s lasted for about 4 years, Spain took the first step towards improving relations with Caribbean nation with an official visit to the island by Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Miguel Angel Moratinos
…the most senior EU government official to go to the communist-run island since the dispute, will meet on Tuesday with acting President Raul Castro, who took over in July after Fidel Castro underwent stomach surgery.
Moratinos said that the meeting marks “a new path” for the relationship between Cuba and his country…
It’s absolutely unthinkable that Spain … cannot maintain, defend and develop an intense, constructive and communicative policy with the Cuban authorities,” he said
…And hopefully a better relationship for Cuba with the European Union.
Newt : Not Ghetto Fabulous
3:04 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bilingualism|literature|Politics · Comments Off
3 Apr 2007
Sure his website pushing for him to be the next president of the United States may have a page in Spanish, but that doesn’t mean Newt Gingrich has to like the language. In a speech to the National Federation of Republican Women (sound like a party to me), Newt said that bilingual education made people who could only speak the language of the ghetto.
“The American people believe English should be the official language of the government. … We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto,”
Newt also said that he was against multilingual voting ballots.
Don’t you love how politicos use Spanish when it works for them and when it doesn’t, they trash it?
Via / The Sun-Sentinal
Image Via / NNDB
Mexico : Gotta Gun? Get A Computer
2:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice|mexico · Comments Off
3 Apr 2007
In an attempt to lower the number of gun related crimes in Mexico City, local police last week began a campaign that invited people to being in their illegal firearms and in return get fabulous parting gifts like computers and cash.
On the first day of the program in Tepito, a neighborhood known for drug dealing and street markets rife with contraband, officers collected 29 guns Tuesday and gave out several desktop computers along with packets of food and cash.
I wonder how successful this program will really end up being. Does it really attack the problems that cause gun violence. Are criminals all of a sudden going to log onto VivirLatino instead of committing murder? Would a program like this work in the U.S.?
Via / CBS News
Image Via / Stormy.org
Brazil says no to circumcision
1:02 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Health · 5 Comments
3 Apr 2007
A recent report by the World Health Organization (WHO) indicates that the practice of circumcision could be effective in preventing the transmission of HIV. Reacting to these findings, the technical advisor for the Brazilian Health Ministry says that her country will not begin practicing circumcisions due to what she considers misleading information:
“I find the recommendations of the WHO and U.N. HIV/AIDS program a little surprising and even frightening,” Simao told Agencia Brasil.…This proposal gives a message of “false protection” because men might think that being circumcized means that they can have sex without condoms without any risk, which “is untrue”, she said.
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