Archive for October 16th, 2007
Chavez: Just say no to whiskey
7:33 pm By Maegan La Mala · Politics|Venezuela · 3 Comments
16 Oct 2007
Hugo Chavez doesn’t like Alejandro Sanz. He also doesn’t like alcoholic beverages, and is urging his people to come off the sauce. The Venezuelan president says that booze isn’t revolutionary and is raising the price of alcohol in an effort to make his compatriots into “new men”:
It’s all part of Chavez’s efforts to encourage Venezuelans to adopt the psyche of the “New Man,” a socialist revolutionary with a monk-like purity of purpose. Chavez often cites the life of Cuba’s iconic hero Ernesto “Che” Guevara as an ideal example — and complains that many Venezuelans’ values are not up to par.“We’re one of the countries that consumes the most whisky per capita in the world. We should be ashamed,” Chavez said recently on national television. “I’m not willing to continue offering dollars to import whisky in these quantities. What kind of revolution is this? The Whisky Revolution? The Hummer Revolution? No, this is a real revolution!”
According to AP, Chavez is also tired of people boozing it up on beer in the streets, and is threatening to seize beer trucks that “sell beer like ice cream”.
Along with alcohol, Chavez is also looking to raise prices on tobacco and luxury cars.
Via / Yahoo! News
Chilean judge: Pinochet lives
5:57 pm By Maegan La Mala · Chile|Justice|Latin America|Politics · Comments Off
16 Oct 2007
While Pinochet may be dead and the left is in power in Chile, at least one justice official says that the legacy of the military dictatorship lives on. Judge Juan Guzmán, the judge who tried dictator Augusto Pinochet, said in a speech today:
“…justice was and is being manipulated by elements derived from or in alliance with [the dictatorship] which still remain in Chile,” and stressed that the judicial branch is “absolutely dominated and intervened in by the Senate”, where, he explained, the majority is made up of supporters of the dictator, reports Efe.
Judge Guzman says that the manipulation of the judicial system is due to the fact that the Senate is charged with appointing members of the Supreme Court. He also said that while Chile’s extradition of ex-President of Peru Alberto Fujimori is a step in the right direction, the Chilean system is “in rehabilitation” from prior injustices committed.
Via / El Universal (Venezuela)
Image via FEL Chile
La Otra Conquista on DVD Today
10:57 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico|Movies · 9 Comments
16 Oct 2007This film was made before Apocalypto and tells about the clash of cultures that in part made the Mexican mestisaje we have today. I watched the film last night and today I will interview the director, Salvador Carrasco. Find out more about the film by visiting Union Station Media.
Dog Days in Puerto Rico
9:28 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Puerto Rico · 1 Comment
16 Oct 2007
We already know that in Puerto Rico the police treat people like animals. Actual animals on the island aren’t faring so well either. Last week animal control workers seized dozens of dogs and cats from housing projects in the town of Barceloneta, Puerto Rico and hurled them from a bridge to their deaths. Animal control had been called in because th housing projects have a no-pet policy. The animals were to be sent to a shelter in Carolina but instead were injected with an unknown substance and the pets and strays were thrown 50 feet from a bridge in the neighboring town of Vega Baja.
“Many were already dead when they threw them, but others were alive,” said Jose Manuel Rivera, who lives next to the bridge. “Some of the animals managed to climb to the highway even though they were all battered, but about 50 animals remained there, dead.”
Via / Yahoo News!
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