Archive for August 4th, 2008
14 Million Dollar Babies
4 Aug 2008So Brad and Angie’s 14 million dollar twins have just landed their first magazine cover (yes, I find it a bit frightening that there is already a demand for the ‘real’ Brangelina babies: witness pic of Shiloh with her “new baby sister” right on the front–which little girls count in the world again?).
By way of contrast, J-Lo’s twins only brought in 6 million dollars.
I dunno. I don’t see anything that makes Brandelina’s twins worth more than double J-Lo’s munchkins. Maybe Brad has a bigger…er…goatee than Marc does (where is Marc anyway?)? Or maybe the world doesn’t appreciate twin brown munchkins?
Is it anti-JLo bias?
I demand an accounting!
Latino Soldier’s Sad Homecoming
4:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Dominicans| Iraq War| New York City · Comments Off
4 Aug 2008
I can hear the church bells from Our Lady of Sorrows church from my apartment. It is just a block from where I live, in a predominantly immigrant neighborhood of Queens, NYC where Mexican storefronts and Dominican storefronts compete with each other. In this neighborhood and across the United States, the ongoing Iraq war and ending it is a top issue for Latinos because it is our sons, daughters, sisters, brothers and neighbors being sent to the front lines and returning, not as they left, but in boxes.
On Thursday, he came back. The police cars with flashing lights guided Sgt. Alex R. Jimenez’s coffin past the laundry, the travel agency and the minimart to 104-35 37th Drive in Corona. The procession paused in front of the bouquet of yellow and white flowers.
“You’re home, you’re home,” his friends and relatives cried as they surrounded the car holding his coffin, holding each other up for support.
It had been more than a year since Sergeant Jimenez, 25, was reported missing after an ambush on his two-Humvee convoy in an area south of Baghdad known as the triangle of death. He was one of three members of the same Army unit — Company D, Fourth Battalion, 31st Infantry, Second Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, based at Fort Drum in upstate New York — captured in the attack. Four Americans in the same unit and one Iraqi interpreter were killed.
Undocumented Residents of Hurricane Impacted Areas Need to “be careful” with FEMA
2:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Uncategorized · Comments Off
4 Aug 2008
Undocumented immigrants have good reason to feat seeking federal assistance, with raids popping up all over the country, even those left in desperate situations in the aftermath of Hurricane Dolly feel safer keeping quiet.
Since 2003, Federal Emergency Management Agency joined the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. FEMA officials are insisting that undocumented residents are at no risk of deportation if they seek aid available through President Bush’s local disaster declaration last week.
Hmmm so are undocumented immigrants expected to trust Homeland Security? Not so fast….
“Information is shared (between DHS departments), but only on a need-to-know basis,” FEMA spokesman Don Jacks said. “We’re not a law enforcement agency; we’re here to help people.”
But what exactly is need to know? The current actions and rhetoric coming out of Homeland Security certainly sounds like they want to know who is undocumented. After all, they want undocumented people to self-deport!
U.S. Hospitals to Undocumented : Back Where You Came From
12:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Health| Immigration| Newspapers · 5 Comments
4 Aug 2008
If anyone wonders about the veracity of current immigration policy being partially responsible for the gap in health and health care access between Latinos and other groups of people, one needs only to read the recent NYT article that tells of how U.S. hospitals are dumping and deporting undocumented immigrants in critical need of care.
The reason, undocumented immigrants lack health insurance and the hospitals are other critical care centers (i.e. rehab centers and nursing homes) don’t want to have to pay the bill. In a country where health care is more about big business than about caring for the sick, hospitals are leasing planes to “take care” of their patients.
Texas Thumbs Nose to International Community, Set to Execute Mexican National
11:33 am By Maegan La Mala · Controversia| Justice| States| Texas| mexico · Comments Off
4 Aug 2008
Last we told you about a plea from the Mexican courts to the U.N. for intervention in the impending executions of 5 Mexican nationals in the state of Texas. Today, at least one of them is a mere 24 hours away from death. The State of Texas has chosen to ignore international clamor and discard allegations that the suspect was never allowed the right to speak to his consulate while under arrest. The Houston Chronicle reports:
At issue is Texas’ refusal to hold a hearing to determine whether Medellin’s defense was harmed by his inability to confer with Mexican consular officials at the time of his arrest. A suspect’s right to talk with his consulate is guaranteed by the United Nations’ Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, to which the United States is a party.Medellin insists he told both Houston police and Harris County officers that he is a Mexican citizen. Prosecutors say the killer never informed authorities of his nationality.
In a sworn statement, Medellin said he learned that the Mexican Consulate could possibly help him in 1997, four years after his arrest. He unsuccessfully petitioned the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on the issue in 1998.
Lopez Obrador to Spanish President: Butt Out of Mexico
10:31 am By Maegan La Mala · Controversia| Latin America| Politics| Spain| World| mexico · 2 Comments
4 Aug 2008
Remember Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the defeated candidate for the Mexican presidency and self-proclaimed “legitimate president”? Well he’s still around and while he isn’t the actual president, he’s getting involved in policy as if he were one. AMLO’s telling Spanish president Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to butt out of Mexican issues, after the prez showed interest in talks of energy reform in Mexico, particularly the privatization of the oil industry.
AMLO says that recent proposals by the PAN ruling party to privatize petroleum will be met with great public resistance because
“…we don’t want foreign masters! The only master here is the Mexican people!”
To the Spanish president — who is visiting Mexico for a meeting with Mexican president Felipe Calderon — AMLO had a curt message:
“They [the Spaniards] shouldn’t get involved. I would tell Rodríguez Zapatero to stop sticking his nose in Mexico…”
AMLO, on a tour of 70 Mexican cities, rounded off his speeches with an ominous message about the dangers of privatization of oil, saying that if it happens “it will be very difficult to get it back. We don’t want to be a colony.”
It’s a bit strange to hear a leftist would-be leader complaining about the Latin American left’s BFF in Europe, Zapatero, but the fact is that the bad blood goes back at least a year. Back in July of last year, AMLO’s camp expressed “repudiation” for a visit from Zapatero because they still hadn’t forgiven him for congratulating Calderon on his victory before all the votes were counted.
Via / La Jornada
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