Archive for September, 2007
El Grito de Lares is Heard in NYC
12:37 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · New York City|Politics|Puerto Rico · Comments Off
24 Sep 2007
The President of Iran isn’t the only one causing trouble at the UN. Yesterday Ricans and many others marched in solidarity with the Rican community to honor el Grito de Lares, September 23rd 1868, traditionally celebrated and commemorated as the birth of the Puerto Rican nation, when Puerto Ricans rose up against Spanish colonial rule in a revolt. In 2005 the FBI took advantage of that date by killing Filiberto Ojeda Rios. The event was also an opportunity to bring attention to the continued colonial status of the island of Puerto Rico.
Image Via / Virtual Boricua
Consumer group comes down on Penelope’s lashes
11:39 am By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities|Marketing|Spain · Comments Off
24 Sep 2007
Ever wonder how celebs get their eyelashes to look so long and luscious? The answer isn’t mascara, but fake lashes — the kind that is causing a stir in Spain, after consumers complained to the national consumer protection agency about Penelope Cruz’s deceitful lashes:
Cosmetics company L’Oréal has modified its Telescopic Mascara commercial featuring Penelope Cruz and has admitted that [the lashes] are fake, according to a press release distributed by FACUA [Spain's Federation of Consumers in Action].In the commercial, the actress appears on a balcony with a telescope and says, “Imagine, lashes that can reach the stars,” and now in the spot being broadcast in Spain, at the bottom of the screen there will be a message that says “commercial done with lash inserts,” it adds.
Back in July, the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority said that the ad was misleading, though L’Oreal claimed that the use of fake lashes was a standard practice. Since then, FACUA has been advocating for L’Oreal to add a disclaimer to the commercial stating that Pe’s lashes were a fake-out.
Via / 20 Minutos
Latino Baby Celeb Watch : Salma Hayek Has a Girl
11:16 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|children|Family|Women · 1 Comment
24 Sep 2007
Bella and talented Salma Hayek is mami, having given birth to a nena, named Valentina Paloma Pinault. Nice name no? Salma’s publicist said on Friday that mami and hija are doing well. We don’t know yet what the baby looks like. Let’s hope she’s a cutie because sometimes beautiful people do make ugly babies.
Via / CNN
In spite of strides, Mexico still discriminatory
8:54 am By Maegan La Mala · GLBT|mexico|society · Comments Off
24 Sep 2007
While many outsiders consider the strides being made towards a more progressive society in Mexico’s capital — among them the legalization of civil unions for gay couples — and on the national level, a national study shows that if the country’s youth are an indicator, there is still quite a long way to go with regard to a truly equal society.
According to a survey called The National Youth Survey:
53 percent [of youths] don’t want a gay person as a neighbor. [Nearly] the same percentage rejects having to be around people with HIV and 25 percent don’t want indigenous people close by.
According to Mexico’s La Jornada, Emilio Álvarez Icaza, head of the Human Rights Commission in the Federal District, warns that the youth of the capital are becoming more and more discriminatory in their views.
The world’s best female golfer: Lorena Ochoa
12:40 pm By Maegan La Mala · mexico|Sports|Women · 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
Vicente Fox tells all about Bush
11:38 am By Maegan La Mala · Books|mexico|Politics · 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 Video to Premiere Today
21 Sep 2007
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.
Time’s Up for Fujimori
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.
Shakira goes back to school
5:59 pm By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities|Education|Entertainment · Comments Off
20 Sep 2007
Our beloved Shakira is taking some time off from music to further her education. La lovely Colombiana has got her head buried in books about ancient civilizations during summer school out here in Cali:
For the past month, the Colombian pop star has been taking a class at the University of California, Los Angeles, called “Introduction to Western Civilization: Ancient Civilizations from Prehistory to Circa A.D. 843.”
Apparently Shakira started the course last month, and passed herself off as a regular nobody in the class, leaving her professor floored when he found out she was famous:
“She told me she was visiting from Colombia and that she was just doing this for her own enlightenment and enjoyment,” Cleve said. “She looked like just an ordinary student. She wasn’t flamboyant … she didn’t act like a big celebrity or anything.”Shakira, who sat near the front in the third row of the lecture hall, would often discuss the course material with him after class.
“I was really impressed with how intelligent she was,” said Cleve.
Sounds like Shaki is more than just a pretty face and a pair of gyrating hips — a good example to young girls out there who idolize her. Though it takes a star’s salary to be able to pay those international student fees.
Via / Yahoo! Entertainment
Kajeet Cell Phones : So Far a Good Option for Padres and Kids
5:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Family|Shopping|Tech|Telecomm · Comments Off
20 Sep 2007
Thankfully my 10 year isn’t one of those kids, the kind that are up your ass to have what all her friends have. Most of her fifth grade friends do have cell phones, used to communicate with their parents as they walk home from school alone. But I still pick my daughter up, so the need wasn’t there. However when offered the chance to review Kajeet, a new cell phone service for kids, I jumped at the chance. I wanted to see what the hype was about and if indeed I did have control of how my daughter would use it. I was pleasantly surprised. My daughter loved the cute characters that are used as the phone’s spokespeople and promptly decorated her LG 225 camera phone with stickers of big headed alien looking creatures she knew by name. I loved the fact that I could control not only who my daughter called but how calls were payed for.
Hola!
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