Archive for August 3rd, 2007
Cuban Boxers Defected Now Have Been Detected
7:26 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Cuba|Politics|Sports · Comments Off
3 Aug 2007
Two Cuban boxers , Guillermo Rigondeaux y Erislandy Lara, defected during the Pan American Games in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, last month. This morning the two were detained by Brazlilian authorities thanks to an anonymous tip.
The boxers’ foreign accents and way of behaving, as well as Erislandy Lara’s gold teeth, had attracted attention of residents in the beach area of Praia Seca in Araruama, police said.
Both will be returned to Cuba where I am certain they will receive a less than warm welcome home. At least they weren’t sent to the Congo, right?
Villaraigosa’s Otra Suspended
9:31 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Los Angeles|Politics · Comments Off
3 Aug 2007
Last month Jennifer wrote about Latino Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and his other women, local Telemundo reporter Mirthala Salinas. Yesterday her network announced that Salinas has been suspended from her job for two months for violating conflict-of-interest policies also known as being a descarada. Mirthala Salinas was having the relationship with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa when she announced the news of his separation from his wife of 20 years on local Telemundo station KVEA, Channel 52.
sal. Three other Telemundo employees also were disciplined, likely for knowing and not telling. Villaraigosa, of course gets to keep working which is why he so smugly stated:
I regret that decisions I have made in my personal life have been a distraction for the city, and I am deeply sorry that I have let so many people down, especially my family. Now that Telemundos internal review has reached a conclusion, it is my hope that we can all move forward.
Via / Yahoo
Image Via / Telemundo LA
Mexico Sears Bomber Comes Forward
8:55 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico · Comments Off
3 Aug 2007
Wednesday’s bombing outside of a Oaxacan Sears store owned by ricochon Carlos Slim and the undetonated bomb of a nearby Banamex has an owner. El Ejercito Popular Revolucionario (EPR) in a communiqué released over the internet said the action was intended “to hit the interests of Mexican and foreign oligarchy. We are willing to continue our actions to achieve the necessary conditions so that our detained and disappeared comrades … are presented, alive,” the group claims that Mexican security forces arrested two of their members in May. The EPR, self described as the winds of freedom on their own website, is the same organization that took credit for a series of gas pipeline bombings in central Mexico in early July.
Via / CNN
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