Archive for May 12th, 2008
Hugo Chavez Says Colombia (and U.S.) Trying to Provoke War
1:19 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia|Politics|Venezuela · 2 Comments
12 May 2008
Yesterday Hugo Chavez accused Colombia (and the U.S.) of provoking a war by pushing Interpol to back up the position that Venezuela’s government has supported the FARC.
“El gobierno de Colombia es capaz, asà lo digo, es capaz de provocar una guerra con Venezuela para tratar de justificar la intervención de los Estados Unidos en Venezuela”, expresó el mandatario, en su habitual mensaje dominical.
Currently Interpol is determining if computer files recovered from a camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia prove that Venezuela is supporting the guerrilla organization, as the U.S. and Colombia claim.
The Wall Street Journal reported May 9 that the files showed that Chavez sought guerrilla warfare training from the FARC, as the rebel group is known, and may have offered to supply them with rockets, citing unnamed senior U.S. intelligence officials. The findings may increase pressure for the U.S. to put Venezuela on the list of state sponsors of terrorism, the Journal reported.
Hillary Clinton Embraces Her Gringa Status
11:19 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · race|US Presidential Race 2008|Women · 1 Comment
12 May 2008
While some call for Hillary Clinton to stop running for president after Tuesday’s primaries in North Carolina and Indiana, others are calling for the calls to stop, saying that many of the calls for Clinton to drop out are based in sexism but for the most of the campaign, race baiting has been happening in the Clinton camp, but now Hillary Clinton herself is embracing her whiteness.
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”“There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said.
Mother’s Day at the Border
9:57 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · children|honduras|Immigration|mexico|Women · Comments Off
12 May 2008
Flowers, chocolates, cards, perfume. These are the most common mother’s day gifts. Along the U.S. Mexico border, all some mothers and daughters wanted was to hug each other.
You can walk to the U.S. border, Francelia Menchaca’s immigration lawyer advised her, but don’t put your fingers through its fence. It may hinder her immigration paperwork, the lawyer said…..The Menchacas, who drove from Phoenix, are among those who gather here annually on Mexico’s Mother’s Day along the kinder portion of an otherwise unforgiving border that separates the United States and Mexico….
“We’re hoping that by next year, they have their immigration papers,” she said, clutching a family photo album, as her grandchildren gathered daisies for her and pushed them through the fence.
This is the human aspect of the boder debate that the pundits want to gloss over. Too many want people to look at this as strictly an issue of laws and numbers, not people, faces, women, children, and their families and how they are separated by borders and laws.
Today in Latino History
7:57 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|history · Comments Off
12 May 2008
Apparently brat pack star Emilio Estevez was born today,May 12, 1962.
on May 12, 2002, Jimmy Carter became the first U.S. president to visit Castro controlled Cuba.
Click after the jump to see what other famous Latino was born today.
Hola!
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