Archive for July, 2009
Breaking in Honduras
5 Jul 2009Please follow VivirLatino on Twitter where it’s a little easier to do ongoing reports on what is coming in from Honduras.
What we do know is that Zelaya was denied landing in Tegucigalpa and that the Honduran military has fired tear gas and bullets upon the crowds gathered outside the airport. Reports say that two people could be dead with many more injured. Telesur, that has a live feed going, reports that the military has even shot clearly identified members of the media.
Please stay tuned here and via our twitter feed
Waiting for President Zelaya
5 Jul 2009
Today, exiled President Zelaya is expected to return to Honduras, complete with an entourage including Argentina’s President Fernandez, Ecuador’s President Correa, & the OAS head Insulza. And they will be greeted by snipers.
I am so afraid for how this will turn out.
Via / Inka Kola News, Honduras Resistencia
There is much talk about what makes a coup and what doesn’t and if said definitions apply to Honduras.
Check out this video from CNN that shows the Honduran military shooting the tires of buses going the capital to protests in support of ousted President Zelaya, or perhaps even to greet him, as he could arrive as early as tomorrow.
Via / Honduras Frente al Golpe de Estado
Honduras Pulls Out of the OAS
4 Jul 2009
After a visit from the Organization of American States head, Chileno José Miguel Insulza, where he asked that Prseident Zelaya be reinstated or else face expulsion, Interim President Roberto Micheletti decided that he would pull Honduras out of the OAS first.
Happy Freedom Day!
Via / Two Weeks Notice, Inka Kola News, Narco News
Public Enemies
3 Jul 2009I’m like mala–I usually don’t see movies until they are out on DVD. But Good Heavens, how much my loins need to see this.
Zelaya’s Cabinet in Hiding
8:22 pm By la Macha · honduras · 2 Comments
3 Jul 2009This report from Al-Jazeera is interesting to see if only for the updates on what is going on with Zelaya’s cabinet right now–something I hadn’t even considered. Because when you oust the president everybody else stays, right? ((naive naive girl))
Sarah Palin Resigns
4:47 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Alaska|Bizarro|Chismes|Controversia|Politics · 3 Comments
3 Jul 2009One big WTF comin’ right atcha, dontcha know:
Damn…that was some weird, incoherent rambling. But the real question here is: WHY? And why NOW?
On the eve of the 4th of July…that ain’t very patriotic, Sarah!
What are your theories dear readers?
Via / HuffPost
I’m a fan of Latin Alternative and rock music pero have struggled to find a radio show that caters to my tastes (the exception is la Nueva Alternativa on WBAI pero my mami vieja as can’t usually stay up late enough to listen).
Just in time to celebrate the 4th bi-culturally comes “The Latin Alternative” from WEXT 97.7 (Albany, NY).
“There is something amazing about a radio station in Albany launching the nation’s first syndicated Latin-alternative radio show. In my childhood growing up in a small town outside of Albany, I couldn’t wait to leave the area and move to a bigger city that had a Latin alternative music scene,” says show co-host Josh Norek. “Ironically, now I live in Los Angeles and it’s an adventurous radio station in upstate New York that has taken the lead and launched the first syndicated show for the genre.”
‘The Latin Alternative’ will begin airing weekly on Saturday nights at 8PM Eastern Time starting on July 4th. Highlights of the program include a weekly ‘Spotlight Artist’ and a ‘Homegrown’ segment focusing on U.S.-based Latin alternative acts. Among the initial Spotlight Artists will be Grammy-winning acts Manu Chao, Café Tacuba, Aterciopelados and Los Fabulosos Cadillacs.
LISTEN LIVE (Saturdays at 8PM Eastern starting on July 4th) at: www.exit977.org
I know I’ll be listening in.
Uruguayan Bishop Resigns over Gay Sex Scandal
9:25 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|GLBT|Latin America|sex|society|Uruguay · Comments Off
3 Jul 2009
I guess the bishop of Minas, Uruguay, Francisco Domingo Barbosa Da Silveira, 65, thought it would safe to report extortion attempts against him to police without anyone knowing what the alleged extorters were threatening to reveal: that he was having sex with other male members of the clergy as well as two prisoners he had hired to help out around his office. How silly of him.
Pope Benedict XVI dismissed the bishop of Minas (Uruguay), Francisco Domingo Barbosa Da Silveira, who denounced an extortion that left uncovered he was having homosexual relations, informed today the Vatican.In a brief bulletin the press office of the Vatican informed that the pontiff has received the resignation in accordance to the paragraph 401.2 of the Code of Canon law, the fundamental law that applies to the catholic Church.
This regulation says: “The diocesan bishop is asked earnestly to present the resignation to his office if for illness or another serious cause there was remaining diminished his aptitude to redeem it”.
“The Holy Father accepted the resignation to the pastoral government of the diocese of Minas presented by monsignor Francisco Domingo Barbosa Da Silveira, in conformity of the article 401,2 of the CDC”, indicated the Vatican in the bulletin.
The two prisoners videotaped the encounter with a cell phone and were threatening to use the material to “out” the bishop.
Thinking about it a bit more, I guess with all of the child molesters in the clergy that get off with nary a slap on the wrist, Barbosa was probably right to think he could do the same.
Via / Momento 24 and 20 Minutos
23 Dead in Bus Accident in Peru
8:24 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Latin America|Peru|society|World · Comments Off
3 Jul 2009
Some very tragic news out of Peru today: at 23 people have died and 50 have been injured in a head-on collision between two buses near Lake Titicaca. AP reports:
The morning crash occurred in the Santa Lucia district, about an hour’s drive from Lake Titicaca high in the Andes, a Puno state highway police officer told The Associated Press by phone.The officer requested anonymity because he was not authorized to talk about the crash.
Emergency crews said there could be as many as four more people still trapped in the wreckage, the officer said. Fourteen of the dead were identified, all of them Peruvians.
Unfortunately, as Peruanos know, this kind of thing is quite common. In January of this year, a bus fell 500 feet off a cliff, killing 30 passengers and injuring 20 more. According to the BBC, in 2008, at least 875 people were killed and more than 5,000 injured in this type of accidents in Peru.
Via / Google News
Image via 20 Minutos
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