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Get Ready California : Latinos to Be Majority

3:32 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · California · Comments Off

10 Jul 2007

The news that Latinos will become California’s majority ethnic group isn’t new news.

The state’s last set of projections, in 2004, predicted it would happen by 2038, but the Finance Department adjusted its predictions to account for longer life expectancies that should keep more elderly whites around in future decades.

So Latinos will be the majority later, by 2042, according to new population projections released Monday. By 2050 52 percent of all Californians will be Latino, and whites will be just 26 percent of the population.

This of course is cause for concern on a number of levels (not including the “his-panic” that many whites may be experiencing)

Argentina’s Ms. Bathroom Money Bags

1:08 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina|Politics · Comments Off

10 Jul 2007

Argentina’s economy minister Felisa Miceli thought that stashing a bag of 64,000 U.S. and Argentine dollars in her office bathroom cabinet was a smart idea. After all she was going to take that money, which she claims was given to her from her brother to buy a house, to the bank. Police conducting a routine security check found the brown bag filled with money and the minister is said to be embarrassed (not ashamed). Argentina’s President Nestor Kirchner made a public show of support yesterday saying that Miceli had made a mistake but committed no crime.

Via / CNN

Media Watch : MSNBC’s First Gut Check Makes My Gut Wretch

11:11 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Immigration|Internet · Comments Off

10 Jul 2007

MSNBC is doing a series of reports based on what “American readers” say they are interested in:

In our first Gut Check America vote, thousands of readers around the country rated illegal immigration as the issue of most concern for them. Among them was Gary Rutledge, a Tulsa, Okla., college professor who wrote about being involved in a traffic accident with an apparent illegal immigrant.

What makes someone an “apparent illegal immigrant”, according to the article:

The other driver, a young Hispanic man, did not speak English, did not have a driver’s license or insurance. The officer suspected the man was an illegal immigrant, Rutledge said, but he did not check his immigration status because such inquiries weren’t allowed in misdemeanor cases.

Skeletons of ’68 massacre victims found

9:43 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Controversia|mexico|Politics · Comments Off

10 Jul 2007

Nearly four decades after the fact, the people of Mexico still feel the weight of the events of October 2, 1968 in their souls. In the years after the Massacre of Tlatelolco — crowning event in Mexico’s own obscure “dirty war” — the government has made numerous attempts to downplay what happened in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas. As student protesters and sympathizers disappeared, rumors of the army having dumped bodies into the ocean were on the lips of many, and families mourned the not so mysterious disappearances of their loved ones.

Nearly a year and a half after Mexico’s “dirty war” report was made public comes a new revelation: an architect has come forward to say that she knew of the existence of skeletal remains of 1968 student protesters in the Plaza, where she was working on a project.

15 is a Magic Number

8:42 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · literature · Comments Off

10 Jul 2007

I never had a quinceañera or a sweet 16 for that matter but the book Fifteen Candles by Adriana Lopez contains fifteen stories that any Latina in her late 20′s to late 30′s can relate to. Subtitled 15 Tales of Taffeta, Hairspray, Drunk Uncles, and other Quinceanera Stories , the tales contain numerous pop culture references (many from the 80′s) that had me giggling. The anthology is divided into five sections with three stories each featuring some of the best Latino writers out there. My favorite story has to be Love Rehearsals by Angie Cruz because it reminded me so much of when I was a dama in a friend’s court.

Buenos Aires sees snow for the first time in 90 years

8:15 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina|Weather · Comments Off

10 Jul 2007

The capital of Argentina, the lovely Buenos Aires, is experiencing an historic winter this year. A wave of extreme cold has hit Argentina, leaving several dead in other parts of the country, but in Buenos Aires, the city received a treat yesterday when the first snowflakes in nearly 90 years fell on the city:

The strange meteorological phenomenon, unseen in BsAs since 1918, is likely to put fear into those who believe that global warming will be the end of us, but in the city Porteños got out and enjoyed the snow.

More photos after the jump.

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Archive for July 10th, 2007

Get Ready California : Latinos to Be Majority

Argentina’s Ms. Bathroom Money Bags

Media Watch : MSNBC’s First Gut Check Makes My Gut Wretch

Skeletons of ’68 massacre victims found

15 is a Magic Number

Buenos Aires sees snow for the first time in 90 years

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