Archive for December 13th, 2007
Celebrating “La Virgen Morena”
6:03 pm By Maegan La Mala · Culture| Religion| mexico · Comments Off
13 Dec 2007In misas de gallo and processions from Mexico City to New York City, Mexicans everywhere are celebrating La Virgen Morena, La Virgen de Guadalupe, who reportedly appeared before a humble indigenous man named Juan Diego on the Cerro de Tepeyac one December day in 1531. Whether or not you’re a believer, there can be no argument as to the weight of Guadalupe in Mexican culture. She is omnipresent not only in the spiritual sense but in the concrete sense. Her image graces nearly every home, taqueria or bus in the country; anywhere her people are, there goes Guadalupe.
Flickr’s got a great assortment of images of the Guadalupe celebrations. Here are a few:
“Escenario” by El Pelos Briseno
Mexico Proposes a Global Climate Change Initiative
3:26 pm By Maegan La Mala · Environment| World| mexico · Comments Off
13 Dec 2007
The Kyoto Protocol isn’t doing enough was the opinion of Mexico’s Environment Secretary Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bali today. Quesada is proposing on behalf of Mexico a global fund which would help developing countries take steps to help avoid global warming:
Facing up to global climate change is a shared responsibility that demands immediate action. The lack of action on the part of some cannot be an excuse for letting them impede our own efforts.
I mentioning those “some”, Quesada was clearly referring to the Bush administration, which has never accepted the terms of the Kyoto Protocol, leaving this country as non-compliant with its principles.
Quesada stressed that developing countries such as Mexico are extremely vulnerable to climate change, citing the example of the recent floods in Tabasco which were some of the worst in the country’s history.
Via / Milenio
Juanes Announces U.S. Tour Dates
13 Dec 2007
Juanes Announced the first U.S. dates of 2008’s La Vida World Tour. Tickets for the first nine announced concerts will go on-sale tomorrow, December 14th. Juanes’ La Vida World Tour will kick-off at New York ’s famed Madison Square Garden and travel extensively across the globe throughout 2008. Check out after the jump for all the announced tour dates.
Alberto Gonzales : Lawyer of the Year (No, I’m Not Kidding)
9:56 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice| Magazines| Politics · Comments Off
13 Dec 2007
There’s a reason there are so many lawyer jokes. Well here’s another one: Who is the American Bar Association’s Journal Lawyer of the Year? Alberto Gonzales! It wasn’t bad enough that earlier this year CNN held up the pro-torture, anti-human rights former Attorney General as a Latino to admire.
The monthly magazine gave the awards to lawyers who made the most news, said editor and publisher Edward A. Adams.
“Think about Time magazine’s Person of the Year,” Adams said in an interview. “In years past they’ve named people like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin. So we’re not suggesting by these awards that these are the best lawyers in any sense of the word. We are saying they are the most newsworthy — and perhaps also the best.”
Well that’s a relief, I think.
Via / Yahoo!
Venezuelan Agents Covering Up Kirchner Cash Stopped in US
8:46 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina| Controversia| Venezuela · 1 Comment
13 Dec 2007
What exactly were four Venezuelan agents doing in the U.S? According to the U.S. Justice Department, the four wanted to talk to Miami business man
Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson so that he wouldn’t talk about $800,000 in cash he was carrying from Caracas, Venezuela, to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Confused? Yeah, me too.
The three Venezolanos and one Uruguayo were allegedly working for Hugo Chavez himself (cue the evil villain music). They were here to cover up the fact that those $800,000 dollars were destined for the pockets of the campaign of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the recently sworn in president of Argentina.
U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta in Miami said: “Today’s complaint alleges an effort by the agents of Venezuela to travel to the U.S. for the purpose of coercing our citizens to help conceal the true nature of a growing international scandal.”
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