Archive for August, 2007
Alberto Gonzales Resigns On Latino Time
9:10 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics · Comments Off
27 Aug 2007
Better late then never. The New York Times and other news sources are reporting that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned his post. The official announcement is expected later today after (according to Univision news that I have on now) Gonzales and his wife lunch with President Bush. Gonzales, the first Latino to serve as Attorney General, has been haunted by scandal around the firings of 8 U.S. Attorneys and his abysmal record on civil rights. I guess after being caught in his lies he figured his time had come.
Chau bacalao!
Via / Univision (television)
Holding Your Breath For Fidel’s Death : You May Die First
10:45 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba · 2 Comments
25 Aug 2007
People, especially those in the Cuban exile community were waiting with baited breath for the official announcement, the one they’ve been waiting for at least a year, the one announcing that Fidel Castro is dead. But that announcement never came (at least not as I’m writing this on Saturday morning).
This Friday, teary callers told Ninoska Pérez of Radio Mambà they were sure this was it, and Pérez, as usual, reminded, ….The moment will come, but this is not the moment.”At Aaction Home Health in Hialeah, office workers were abuzz because somebody from Cuba called a colleague to say folks in Havana were starting to take to the streets in anticipation of the news. At the University of Miami, media relations officers worked the phones in search of confirmation.
Elvira Arellano’s struggle continues in Mexico
5:38 pm By Maegan La Mala · Controversia|Immigration|mexico · 12 Comments
24 Aug 2007
Elvira Arellano’s controversial stay in a Chicago church to avoid deportation and her subsequent removal from the U.S. have stirred up all sorts of opinions here on VL over the past few months. And here’s something that’s likely to stir up even more: Elvira is back in her home state of Michoacán and is sending a message to the Mexican government demanding that it stand strong against “the hate and racism” shown towards Mexican citizens in the United States:
Deported last Sunday by 15 federal agents, the Michoacán native wants to clarify that her struggle isn’t just for Mexicans, but also for Central Americans and undocumented people of other ethnic groups living in U.S. territory, and for this reason she is asking that the Mexican government also respect and treat with dignity those people who come from other countries. “That they not be treated as criminals,” she demanded.
São Paulo Just Says No to Billboards
5:05 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Environment|Marketing · Comments Off
24 Aug 2007Stepping out for a walk in any major city means being bombarded by images and words all with one aim: to get you to want something bad enough to buy it. Call it visual pollution. That’s what the mayor of São Paulo calls billboards and he feels so strongly about it that he made his city the first city outside of the communist world to put into effect a near-complete ban on outdoor advertising. The ban is part of the city’s “Lei Cidade Limpa” or Clean City Law .
Since then, billboards, outdoor video screens and ads on buses have been eliminated at breakneck speed. Even pamphleteering in public spaces has been made illegal, and strict new regulations have drastically reduced the allowable size of storefront signage. Nearly $8 million in fines were issued to cleanse São Paulo of the blight on its landscape.
Wow! I can’t even imagine this here in NYC. See a video story about the ban after the jump.
Bill Richardson and Two Other Dems on the Reservation Today
5:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Events|Politics · Comments Off
24 Aug 2007
Apparently only some of the Democrats trying to snag the nomination from their party to run for prez think that the Native American vote is important. Governor Bill Richardson, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, and Senator Mike Gravel are in Cabazon, California for a candidates forum with the Indigenous community in mind.
Watch the historic Prez on the Rez forum presidential forum today via internet at www.prezontherez.org at 3:30pm Pacific time (5:30pm Central).We are making history with the Prez on the Rez forum with these dedicated candidates — Governor Bill Richardson, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, and Senator Mike Gravel. This is the first time presidential candidates will assemble on Indian land to lay out their visions for the future of Indian Country.
Mark Trahant, a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and the editor of the editorial page at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, will moderate the discussion between the candidates and tribal leaders.
Join the proceedings online by watching the forum at www.prezontherez.org. The next President of the United States will realize tribes are a critical voting block and the opportunities and challenges in Indian Country deserve visionary leadership and dialogue with American Indian tribal citizens.
Via / Culture Kitchen
Chavez changes the time in Venezuela
11:53 am By Maegan La Mala · Politics|society|Venezuela · 1 Comment
24 Aug 2007
President Hugo Chavez has been changing a lot of things since he’s been in office, from the constitution to the ownership of certain industries in Venezuela. And his quest to change things is apparently not over, as he wants to change the time in Venezuela by half an hour:
“We are hoping that we get the opportunity to have the time change in efect before the beginning of the school year, said Minister of Science and Technology, Héctor Navarro.With the time change the difference between the legal time in Venezuela with respect to Greenwich Mean Time will go from minus 4 hours (-4.00 GMT) to minus four and a half (-4.30 GMT).
The objective, according to the Minister, is that workers feel more rested when they wake up in the morning, as they will be waking with the sun rather than getting up when it’s still dark outside.
Via / 20 Minutos
After the earthquake, Alan Garcia = Rudy Giuliani?
3:10 pm By Maegan La Mala · Peru|Politics|society · Comments Off
23 Aug 2007
The real fabric of a leader is said to be found in the moments of massive crisis. Peru’s president, Alan Garcia, has apparently shined in a moment of great difficulty — or at least that’s how some in the Latin American media are presenting it — with a hands-on approach to the recent devastating earthquake his country suffered.
GarcÃa traveled quickly to Pisco after the earthquake on August 15th, and remained in the streets until after midnight, assigning tasks to the ministers of his government, supervising the distribution of water and food, and coordinating refuge for thousands of victims.He met with foreign rescue teams and thanked them for their help. He urged survivors to be patient and reassured them: “No one is going to die of thirst and no one is going to die of hunger.” He witnessed the birth of a baby in a tent hospital and proclaimed: “This is a message of hope in the middle of death and pain.”
The Undocumented Immigrant Crime Wave Myth
1:24 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Immigration|Justice|race · 2 Comments
23 Aug 2007The horrific murder of three black college students by Latinos at the beginning of this month is being used to spark the fire of hate and divide and conquer politics with the target being Latinos, specifically undocumented Latinos. Newark is (was) a sanctuary city for immigrants, meaning that immigrants, regardless of their status should have felt safe going on with their daily business (don’t forget however that Los Angeles is allegedly a sanctuary city and yet Elvira Arellano was arrested while conducting a most “American” practice, a press conference). Some are predicting that the issue of sanctuary cities could become a hot button issue in the 2008 presidential campaigns.
Hear Cafe Tacuba’s new single
12:15 pm By Maegan La Mala · mexico|Music · 2 Comments
23 Aug 2007
This just in: you can catch the long-awaited new single from Cafe Tacvba, Volver a Comenzar, on Univision.com, as well as as scenes from the making of the new video. The single is off their new album Sino, set to drop on October 9th. This is the group’s first new studio album in 4 years. Check it out!
Tell us what you think of the new single in the comments section.
Latin Grammy Nominations
9:34 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Events|Miami · Comments Off
23 Aug 2007
Next week, August 29th, the Latin Grammy Award nominees will be announced in Miami and it looks like the announcements will be almost as good as the awards. So far confirmed to be at the nomination announcement are Willy Chirino, Juan Luis Guerra, and Kinky.
We can’t wait!!
Hola!
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