12:40 pm By Maegan La Mala · Sports| Women| mexico · 1 Comment
21 Sep 2007
If you’re like me, it’s unlikely that you know who ranks number one in the world for women’s professional golf. But here’s a name you should know: Lorena Ochoa. She’s a 25-year old Mexican athlete who’s shaking up the world of professional golf. And Lorena isn’t satisfied with being the best in the world; she is out to break some agressive records:
“This year I want to break the record of the [score]difference between first and second place in the tournaments I win. I can still break the record for consecutive tournaments [won]. I have a lot of goals.”
Last month, Ochoa won the Safeway Classic, and next week will seek her fourth consecutive victory at the Navistar LPGA Classic in Alabama.
Lorena Ochoa was born and raised in Guadalajara, has played golf since the age of 5 and went pro in 2002. She is the second Mexican to ever compete on the LPGA tour and first Mexican golfer — male or female — to be ranked as the best in the world.
Via / El Universal (Venezuela) and LorenaOchoa.com
11:38 am By Maegan La Mala · Books| Politics| mexico · Comments Off
21 Sep 2007
Former president of Mexico Vicente Fox is telling it like it is in his new autobiography, and he’s got a lot of things to say about his friend Dubya, whom he calls “the cockiest guy I’ve ever met”:
“My first impression of George W. Bush was one of total self-confidence. He is quite simply the cockiest guy I have ever met in my life,” Fox wrote, according to an advance copy of the book.Except, perhaps, when it came to language skills. Fox said Bush was “a bit sheepish as he tried out his grade-school-level Spanish” at that meeting in Austin, Texas.
Juanes’ new album, La Vida es Un Ratico, doesn’t drop till, but the first single off of it, Me Enamora , is already the #1 Latin song in the country. Today the video for that single debuts on Univision’s “Primer Impacto” at 5 pm EST and MTV Tr3all day. Watch it and tell us what you think.
9:20 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Chile| Justice| Peru| Politics · Comments Off
21 Sep 2007
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is no longer safe in Chile. The supreme court of that Southern Cone nation has approved his extradition to Peru where he will face human rights abuse and corruption charges. 69 year old Fujimori has been under house arrest in Chile since 2005.
“We have awarded the extradition,” Supreme Court judge Alberto Chaigneau told reporters on Friday. He added that the court’s decision had been based on two charges of human rights violations and five of corruption.
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