Archive for December 18th, 2007
Garcia Marquez translated into police code
5:47 pm By Maegan La Mala · Bizarro| literature| mexico · Comments Off
18 Dec 2007
Mexico City cops are honoring Nobel Laureate colombiano Gabriel García Márquez in a singular way: they’ve translated his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude into police radio code:
“Muchos alfas posteriores, frente al grupo que hace 44, el coronel Aureliano Buendía hacía 60 de una tarde remota en que su progenitor le hace 26 a 62 el hielo”, are the first lines of the novel translated by police officers in the city of Nezahualcóyotl, on the outskirts of Mexico City as part of a program to promote reading among officers.
You might remember that this is the same program we told you about last year, which looks to promote reading among cops based on “the principle is that a police officer who is cultured is in a better position to be a better police officer.”
Venezuela’s El Universal says that the Neza cops each did a part of the translation, and because of the project the “identify a lot more [with the book] and see it as something that’s our own.”
Via / El Universal (Venezuela)
Image via Alfr3do’s Flickr
Maradona wants to add Chavez to his collection
11:20 am By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities| Cuba| Latin America| Sports| Venezuela · Comments Off
18 Dec 2007
Ever the provocateur, soccer legend Diego Maradona says he wants to add a new face to his tattoo collection — which already features the visages of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara — la jeta de Hugo Chávez:
Diego Maradona said today that he wishes to get a tattoo of the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, after having branded his skin with the faces of Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Argentine-Cuban guerrillero Ernesto “Che” Guevara.“I would really like to tattoo myself with something of Chávez,”said Maradona in the northern province of Tucumán, where he was playing a game of “showbol”, a type of indoor soccer between veteran players from Argentina and Paraguay.
Maradona also told reporters that he’s doing well and wants to extend his radio show from Buenos Aires to other parts of Argentina, and invite people like singer Chayanne on “so that they can be seen by all Argentines”. Something tells me Chayanne is already pretty popular in Argentina without Maradona’s help.
Via / El Universal (Mexico)
Baby Jesus is Yummy
10:41 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bizarro| Religion| Shopping · Comments Off
18 Dec 2007
I haven’t bought a Nativity set for my apartment, so this one has possibilities. The Holy Family as marshmellowy goodness? If Chocolate Jesus pissed people off, why is this representation ok?
(yeah I know it has something to do with the lack of a penis but still!).
Via / Boing- Boing
Kaka : Fifa’s Player of the Year
9:21 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil| Sports · Comments Off
18 Dec 2007
Having a Golden Ball isn’t enough for Brazilian futbol star Kaka. The 25 year old AC Milan player was named FIFA’s world player of the year. This makes him the 5th Brazilian winner since soccer’s governing body introduced the award in 1991.`
`It’s really special for me, it was a dream for me just to play for Sao Paulo and one game for the national team,” Kaka, a devout Christian, said after receiving the award. “But the Bible says that God can give you more than you even ask for, and that has happened in my life.”
Via / Bloomberg.com
Castro Hints at Retiring
8:14 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Cuba| Politics · Comments Off
18 Dec 2007
While many old-timers pack up their bags and retire to Miami, the (still) Cuban president Fidel Castro, in a letter read on Cuban tv last night, gave fodder to the rumors that he is out of active politics.
“My elemental duty is not to cling to positions, or even less to obstruct the path of younger people, but to share experiences and ideas whose modest worth comes from the exceptional era in which I lived,” Castro wrote in the final paragraph of the lengthy letter, which mainly discussed the Bali summit on global warming.
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