Archive for the ‘Guatemala’ Category
Rigoberta for President
5:59 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Guatemala|Politics|Women · Comments Off
22 Feb 2007
While the U.S. is caught up in the Obama vs. Hillary for president game, many Guatemalans are celebrating the announcement that Nobel Peace Prize laureate and indigenous activist Rigoberta Menchu will run for president of their country:
Rigoberta Menchú said Wednesday that she will run for president of Guatemala, backed by a center-left coalition, in an attempt to become the second indigenous leader of a Latin American nation.Menchú, the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and defender of the Mayan victims of the brutal civil war that tore through Guatemala between 1960 and 1996, will participat in the September 9th elections together with the Juntos por Guatemala coalition and Winaq, a newly formed indigenous political party.
Fried Chicken and Floods in Jakarta
2:28 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Food|Guatemala|Marketing · Comments Off
7 Feb 2007
Jakarta may be underwater but that didn’t stop Guatemalan chicken chain, Pollo Campero from opening its first Asian branch in the Indonesian capital. According to a press release ,the locale opened its doors in Sarinah, a historical department store in the heart of the Jakarta’s business district.
Now don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against Pollo Campero. I have a branch three blocks from my apartment that I have patronized on more than one occasion but with hundreds of thousand dead in Jakarta because of flooding, fried chicken probably isn’t the priority.
Via / Hispanic PR Wire
Apocalypto Racist? No duh!
9:15 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Guatemala|history|mexico|Movies|race · 20 Comments
7 Dec 2006
Looking to Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, set to open on Friday, as a source of historical accuracy regarding Maya culture makes as much sense as looking to this book for information about the Aztecs. Call me a judgemental, oversensitive woman of color (really, it wouldn’t be the first time) but I don’t need to see the movie to have a bad gut reaction, you know what I’m talking about Latinos, that something here just ain’t right. I sure am not gonna drop $10 plus to prove myself right and at least one group of indigenous activists in Guatemala, where a large population of Maya still live agrees.
“Gibson replays, in glorious big budget Technicolor, an offensive and racist notion that Maya people were brutal to one another long before the arrival of Europeans and thus they deserved, in fact, needed, rescue,” said Ignacio Ochoa, director of the Nahual Foundation that promotes Mayan culture.
Guatemala: Another Juarez, Mexico?
14 Jun 2006
Over the last five years at least 2,000 mujeres have been murdered in Guatemala. The majority of these women have been poor young women found with body parts missing including their breasts. So is Guatemala becoming another Ciudad Juarez, Mexico? And why is the mainstream media not covering this story? The answer is that obviously the mainstream media doesn’t consider the murders of Latina women important but a delegation of U.S. advocates does and will be travelling to Guatemala to call attention to the crimes against women there and to the fact that over the past five years only 14 of these murder cases have been solved. Juana Batzibal, a human rights lawyer with the Center for Legal Action on Human Rights (CALDH) in Guatemala City said:
The gall with which these women are killed is telling women that they shouldn’t be on the street, that they should go back home.
“OTM” immigrants “make like Mexicans”
3:26 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Guatemala|Immigration|mexico · 1 Comment
22 May 2006
Last week we told you that not everyone crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. is necessarily a Mexican immigrant. Via The Latin Americanist, Reuters reports on the phenomenon of “OTM” (“other than Mexican”) immigrants claiming to be Mexican in order to be deported to Mexico, rather than their home countries:
Non-Mexican Hispanics entering the United States illegally are studying up on Mexican history and geography, even learning to whistle the national anthem, to beat U.S. plans to fly them home.
Stop right there. Is this working? If so, we’ve got some dumb Border Patrol officials on the beat.
…so-called Other Than Mexican, or OTM, illegal immigrants mostly from Central America, are increasingly being flown back hundreds of miles to their home countries, which can effectively end their dream of entering the United States to earn a better life.So, many pretend to be Mexicans.
Salma and Juanes united against AIDS
1:17 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Celebrities|Guatemala|Health · 1 Comment
4 May 2006
Colombian rocker Juanes and Mexican actress Salma Hayek joined forces with actress Ashley Judd this week to raise awareness about AIDS in Guatemala:
“I know that there is misinformation, that there is a stigma and superstitions that only contribute to the spread of AIDS,” Judd, world ambassador for the Washington-based YouthAIDS group, said while visiting an AIDS clinic run by Maryknoll nuns in the town of Coatepeque, 165 kilometers (100 miles) west of Guatemala City.Fellow actress Salma Hayek and Colombian singer Juanes, who also represent the group, were expected to join Judd later Tuesday. The three planned to stay in Guatemala for several days, during which time they will meet with President Oscar Berger to discuss the AIDS situation in the country. Judd and Hayek will then continue the tour in Honduras and Nicaragua.
Salma had been scheduled to fly out to Guatemala earlier, but postponed her trip in observance of the May 1 boycott on Monday.
Via / Pravda.ru
Photo via TVSquad.com
Kissing and Telling: LESBIRADAS
9:06 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism|Events|GLBT|Guatemala · Comments Off
18 Oct 2005
There are some things Latinos still don’t speak about in public. Some aspects of our daily lives and identities are relegated to dark corners. One Latina in Guatemala is challenging the silence and coming to the U.S. to share her story and struggle. Claudia Acevedo is the co-founder of LESBIRADAS, the only public lesbian organization in Guatemala. She helped create the organization to carve out a women’s only lesbian space in a society where being out is not only considered shameful, it is dangerous. The organization organizes public kiss-ins, counseling, monthly parties for lesbians, advocating for non-discrimination legislation, and work against violence against women regardless of their sexual orientation. Because of her work, Claudia and other members of LESBIRADAS have received serious threats of physical and sexual assault.
The self proclaimed ‘ladina’ (a mixed-race person, Indian, Black, White) and co-mami will not be silenced and will be in the United States to share her experiences and perspective and to raise fund specifically for legislative work LESBIRADAS is currently doing. Claudia will be in NYC on October 21, 6:00pm – 9:00pm at Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13th St. (between 7th Ave & 8th Ave. Claudia will also be in Amhurst, Massachusetts on Thursday, October 27, at 7:30 pm at Campus Center 904-08, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her appearances are part of a nation-wide tour sponsored by the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala.
Via / Idealist.org
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