Archive for December 26th, 2007
Argentine Jewish Community Upset with Maradona
5:38 pm By Maegan La Mala · Argentina|Controversia|Culture|iran|Religion · 1 Comment
26 Dec 2007
Maradona might be considered an untouchable demigod in his home country of Argentina, but the embattled soccer star has fallen from grace in the eyes of some in Argentina’s Jewish community because of a controversial comment. La mano de Dios was quoted as saying that he wants to meet the president of Iran: “I’ve already met (Hugo) Chávez and Fidel (Castro). Now the only one I’ve still got to meet is their [the Iranian] president. I want to meet Ahmadineyad.”
The comment was not well-received by the Jewish community, which
…”strongly laments” the words of ex-soccer player Diego Maradona in favor of Iran and hopes that “he rectifies [the situation]“, said the secretary of the Israeli and Argentine Mutual Association (AMIA), Edgardo Gorenber.“We are admirers of Maradona as a player and we strongly lament his expressing his opinion on such delicate an issue as this one,” he said, after citing that in 1994 the AMIA was the target of a terrorist attack which left 85 dead and which the Jewish community attributes to terrorists protected by Iran.
“Diego is the most well-known Argentine in the world and our soccer embassador. It would be good to tell him the true story about how much pain [Iran] brought us 13 years ago,” said the Agencia JudÃa de Noticias.
I think the relative gentleness of this chiding of Maradona is a testament to how powerful he still is in Argentina. I doubt anyone else could get away with such statements as that one given the history of the relationship between Iran and Argentina and Ahmadinejad’s denial of the verity of the holocaust.
Via / 20 Minutos
Chavez authorized to move forward with FARC
3:45 pm By Maegan La Mala · Colombia|Politics|Venezuela · Comments Off
26 Dec 2007
Things are moving pretty quickly in the FARC hostage situation. This morning, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said that all he needed to move forward with the getting the FARC hostages freed was the Colombian government’s authorization.
A couple of hours later, El Universal reported that Colombia was “studying Chavez’s proposal”. Now, word just came that Colombia will accept Chavez’s offer and let him facilitate the freeing of three hostages, Clara Rojas, her son Emmanuel, and ex-congresswoman Consuelo González de Pérdomo. The official statement from the government is:
“The government of Colombia authorizes the humanitarian mission based on the terms described and assigns Doctor Luis Carlos Restrepo as its representative delegate.
Fidel May Be a Contender
11:39 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba|Politics · Comments Off
26 Dec 2007
There is so much speculation about Fidel Castro and his health that it all is fodder worthy enough for a supermarket checkout tabloid and we’ve written about it so much here at VL that if we had a Time magazine like Person of the Year he could be it (along with Chavez). The latest to come out of Cuba via its interim President, Fidel’s baby bro, Raul, is that Fidel is exercising two hours a day (that’s about two hours more than me) and may be prepping to run in an election.
The health of Cuban President Fidel Castro is good enough for him to be a candidate in next month’s parliamentary elections, his brother Raul has said.
Does this mean that Fidel will show up in public or is this just another rumor that will come and go like the rest of them?
Via / BBC
Bolivian Constitution Bans Gay Marriage
11:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Bolivia|Controversia|GLBT|society · 1 Comment
26 Dec 2007
There was much uproar in Bolivia late last month when it was announced that a new constitution was approved in that country. Among the amendments to the document was a stipulation that seemed to go unnoticed until now; one that writes discrimination into the constitution by defining marriage between a man and a woman.
The Bolivian LGBT community is outraged, while the Bolivian government defended itself saying they “haven’t received any requests” on the part of the gay community to include gay marriage as a right in the new constitution and alleges that such a proposal wouldn’t have gone anywhere since “Bolivian society is conservative”.
15 LGBT groups in Bolivia are fighting back with a document outlining their demands, among them the right to education and employment regardless of sexual orientation.
Via / Ambiente G and La Prensa (Bolivia)
Image via BoliviaGay.com
U.S. Street Orgs Going South of the Border (And Then Come Back)
10:26 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · crime|El Salvador|mexico · Comments Off
26 Dec 2007
It’s not something you hear about often. How street organizations, aka gangs, move their industry to Latin America making them even bigger and transnational. What results is that neither the U.S. or Latin American nations are equipped to deal with the results. Personally, I know of a friend of mine who was recently killed by a gang member in El Salvador after being deported from the U.S.
Two gangs that originated on the streets here have grown so large in El Salvador that there are two prisons in that country devoted exclusively to their members, one for each gang, according to officials who traveled there recently to meet with the local authorities.
So what to do. No one wants crime, here or there and how to do it without resorting to racial profiling.
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