1:32 pm By Maegan La Mala · Controversia| Entertainment| Latin America| TV| Venezuela · 2 Comments
30 Jun 2008
Venezuelan television network Televen has been fined by the government for airing episodes of The Simpsons. You might remember that a couple of months back Maegan told us that Televen was told by the Venezuelan TV regulator that they had to air The Simpsons later in the day so that children wouldn’t be exposed to it. Now it seems the cartoon is to be pulled all together because it
contains images and sounds that, in common use, are crude, as well as those that refer to the consumption of alcohol, without showing its effects or attempting to help erradicate addictive conduct…as well as images and sounds which show dramatized violence.
The Simpsons would be pretty boring if the characters were doling out messages about the negative effects of alcohol consumption. And what’s up with Chavez and alcohol anyway?
Televen’s fine comes not in the form of money to pay but air time. The network has to promise to broadcast 30 second cultural and educational spots for 30 consecutive days.
Via / El Universal
Image via Hypeline.com
1:30 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Movies| Music| dance| mexico · No Comments
30 Jun 2008
My older daughter was into High School Musical for a hot minute, now it looks like we have a Mexican version complete with reggaeton beats, futbol, and fresas!
Someone send me a copy so I can crack the hell up!
Via / Gawker
11:30 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| US Presidential Race 2008 · No Comments
30 Jun 2008Following Republican Presidential nominee John McCain’s speech to the National Association of Latino Elected Officials, the Democratic National Committee released a new web video called “McCain vs. McCain: Immigration Reform” noting McCain’s back and forth movement over a border of his own making.
Via / DNC
9:30 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice| Puerto Rico · No Comments
30 Jun 2008
A Bar Association (it is not clear if this is the Puerto Rican Bar Association) requested that the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Extrajudicial Executions, Australian Philip Alston, investigate the United States for the death of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos at the hands of agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI).
Included in the 30 page request, is a request to interview 31 people including governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá and Luis Fraticelli, director of the FBI in Puerto Rico.
The next step after filing the complaint is for Alston to communicate with the Government of the United States. Once the federal government approves Alston coming to Puerto Rico, the U.N. Rapporteur will visit the Island for a field investigation related to the death of Ojeda Ríos on September 23, 2005.
If the U.S. does not approve Alston’s visit, the Rapporteur will note the denial in his report and will denounce the U.S. position on an international level, according to Romany as well as attorneys Ricardo Alfonso García and Fermín Arraiza Navas, members of the third Bar Association commission to intervene in this case.
The attorneys posit that the case of Ojeda Ríos is not the only extrajudicial execution on the Island, mentioning as an example the death of Santiago Mari Pesquera, son of independentista leader Juan Mari Brás.
Do people really expect the U.S. to be held responsible to any international law?
Via / El Nuevo Dia
7:34 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism| GLBT| Latin America| mexico| society · No Comments
30 Jun 2008
Over the weekend Mexico City’s LGBT march — held each year in the city as a manifestation of solidarity and a chance to decry rights not yet granted to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Mexico — celebrated its 30th anniversary.
While strides have been made in the movement, like the recognition of civil unions between same sex partners last year, organizers say there is still much to be done. Same sex couples still do not have access to their partner’s social security benefits or inheritance.
Image via Skene on Flickr
5:34 pm By Maegan La Mala · Germany| Spain| Sports| World · 1 Comment
29 Jun 2008What no one thought was possible has happened. Spain is the European champion for fútbol, defeating Germany 1-0 in a stressful but beautiful match. Here’s the goal that won the match, landed in the first half of the game
Most people didn’t believe that Spain would even make it to the quarter finals, much less defeat a team as strong as Germany. The last time Spain won the Eurocup was 44 years ago, and after the game President Zapatero commented that he is the first Spanish president to see a Eurocup win in a democratic Spain.
Via / YouTube
11:52 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice| New York| Women| crime · 2 Comments
29 Jun 2008
I love when a woman can show up looking as she does in the picture and people can still say that something “allegedly” went down. Pictured is Irma Marquez, who was shown on a surveillance videotape, being bodyslammed, facedown, by Yonkers, NY police officer Wayne Simoes.
“Several officers stated that, based on their training and experience, Simoes’ use of force against Marquez was unreasonable and excessive,” FBI Agent Kristina Norris wrote in a criminal complaint against Simoes filed in U.S. District Court in White Plains.
Federal prosecutors yesterday charged Simoes, 38, of Yonkers, with criminally violating the civil rights of Marquez in the March 3, 2007, arrest at La Fonda Restaurant. Simoes, an eight-year veteran of the Police Department who was paid $126,604 last year, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
9:52 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Iraq War| US Presidential Race 2008| Washington DC · No Comments
29 Jun 2008
Republican presidential candidate John McCain was speaking, or trying to speak, at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Conference and was met with some anti-war protesters (one was even bi-lingual). So what was McCain trying to say exactly? Check after the jump to find out.
7:52 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration · No Comments
29 Jun 2008Last week the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for refusing to
turn over public documents related to the deaths of dozens of immigrant
detainees. The lawsuit requests that the court order DHS to carry out a reasonable records search and speed up the processing of documents. The ACLU’s legal action arises from alleged government abuses connected to the deaths of immigrants held in various detention facilities in the United States. The deaths were reportedly due to medical neglect.
Also named in the lawsuit were the Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) agency and the DHS Office of the Inspector General.
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