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Shameless Self-Promotion : VL’s Maegan la Mala on Yo Soy Latino Radio Hoy

9:32 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Florida| Media| media justice| radio · Comments Off

9 May 2009

Will I ever shut the hell up? Not likely gente. Today, the day before mother’s day, I will be on Yo Soy Latino on 810AM WEUS (Orlando, Florida area). You can listen live at the Yo Soy Latino site and even call in with questions!
I hope some will listen in.

Cubana Congresista Hangs Up On Obama Twice

7:53 am By Maegan La Mala · Florida| Funny| Politics · Comments Off

4 Dec 2008

We’re sure Florida Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is feeling pretty boba this morning since she hung up on the President to be, not once, pero twice.

According to Ros-Lehtinen’s flack Alex Cruz, the congresswoman received the call on her cell phone from a Chicago-based number and an aide informed her that Obama wanted to speak to her. When Obama introduced himself, Ros-Lehtinen cut him off and said, “I’m sorry but I think this is a joke from one of the South Florida radio stations known for these pranks.” Then she hung up.

Moments later, Obama tried again, this time through his soon-to-be chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.

“Ileana, I cannot believe you hung up on the President-Elect,” Emanuel said. And then–yes, you know what’s coming–she hung up on Emanuel saying she “didn’t believe the call was legitimate.”

A short time later, Ros-Lehtinen received an urgent call from Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, who informed her that she indeed hung up on Obama.

Via / Yahoo

When Families Suddenly Matter in Immigration

11:01 am By Maegan La Mala · Florida| Politics| arizona · Comments Off

19 Sep 2008

When it’s not their mother or daughter, politicians play lip service to family matters and immigration. When it is their family, in the case of Democratic Florida Congressman Allan Boyd and his son, suddenly protecting the family is important. His family. Not the family of the immigrants the 30 year old son of the Congressman was charged with smuggling after federal authorities found people hidden in his truck during a border inspection Sunday in Arizona.

Rep. Allen Boyd, a Democrat from Monticello, in Florida’s Panhandle, said today in a statement released by his office that the arrest of his son, John Finlayson Boyd, “is a family matter that my family and I will be dealing with privately.”

Authorities said two of the undocumented immigrants found in Boyd’s truck told them they had agreed to pay $3,000 each to be smuggled into the United States.

Certainly, the immigrants have been detained, are living in horrific conditions as they await deportation.

Via / Adventures in the Coconut Caucus

Central Florida Latinos Focal Point for Candidates

10:51 am By Maegan La Mala · Florida| Politics| States| US Presidential Race 2008 · Comments Off

1 Aug 2008

If a new survey is to be believed, Central Florida is where Barack Obama needs to be spending much of his $20 million Latino campaign budget. According to a new study by the non-partisan Democracia USA organization, those votes are up for grabs as the population tends to swing both ways (politically speaking):

“It’s something very interesting, very special here in Orlando and its surroundings: the Hispanic voting population isn’t defined. One moment the majority votes Republican and the next it votes Democrat,” Jorge Mursuli, president of the non-partisan Democracia USA organization, told Efe.

According to Mursuli, the Hispanic population of the city of Orlando has doubled over the past year, making the area a hotspot for swiping up votes, not to mention the fact that

“Florida has the largest number of electoral votes among the states where they talk about the importance of the Hispanic vote,” Mursuli said, apparently assuming that the Republicans stand little chance of wresting California – which leads the nation both in electoral votes and Latino population – away from the Democrats.

I hate to be naive, but I similarly don’t see Republicans standing a snowball’s chance in Hades in getting California. Obama needs to pull the mariachi ads and move out East, where he really needs to drum up support.

Via / Hispanic Business

McCain Takes Florida. Giuliani to Take a Bow.

8:11 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Florida| US Presidential Race 2008 · Comments Off

30 Jan 2008

With 99% of the vote counted, John McCain led Mitt Romney by 36% to 31% in the Florida priamaries held yesterday, meaning all 57 Republican delegates go to him. All the results are as follows:

Republicans
John McCain: 36%
Mitt Romney: 31%
Rudy Giuliani: 15%
Mike Huckabee: 13%
Ron Paul: 3%
Democrats
Hillary Clinton: 50%
Barack Obama: 33%
John Edwards: 14%

Former NYC Mayor, Rudolph Giulini, who had placed all his campaigning eggs in the Florida basket, is expected to withdraw from from the race and support John McCain.

For Giuliani…..

Alberto Gonzales Gets Paid 40k to Get Heckled at University of Florida

8:58 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Controversia| Florida| Justice| Politics · Comments Off

21 Nov 2007

The man keeps on keeping the Latino man down. Pobre former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is just trying to earn an honest living speaking about what he knows best.

Actually you have to hand it to the protesters for their creativity. The visual of the “prisoner” in the orange jumpsuit and hood next to Gonzales is priceless and is anyone else missing the irony that Sr. Gonzales is speaking at a series called Accents?

Anti-Chavez Billboard Gets a Second Look Because of Word Choice

8:49 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Florida| Venezuela · 10 Comments

18 Oct 2007

ass.4.jpg A billboard put up and paid for by self-proclaimed “true American” John McCombs in Florida is drawing fire but not for reasons you might think. It’s not that Bay Minette has a strong pro-Hugo Chavez lobby, it’s that the billboard’s choice of language is offensive. Don’t Buy Gas from This Ass is the most intelligent response McCombs could come up with after Chavez said Bush was the devil and made nice with Iran. But locals aren’t happy with seeing “ass” everyday. They have complained to the city about the sign to try and get it removed. Just as smart is the placement of the billboard. It’s right near a BP station.

Via / WKRG

Save Juan (No Save Two or More)

8:22 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Florida| Immigration| Politics · Comments Off

1 Aug 2007

I think Juan Gomez should be allowed to stay in the U.S. and finish his studies here if he so chooses. But I’m getting a little tired of politicians using poster boy model minority Latinos as a way of avoiding dealing with the real issues surrounding immigration “reform” and yes racism. After all what red-blooded American wouldn’t want to call Juan his own. Juan writes:

On the verge of our 2nd and 3rd birthdays, my bother Alejandro Gomez and I, Juan Sebastian Gomez, were brought to a country which symbolized success and the pursuit of happiness. After 17 years, America is all we know. Both of us are fearful of a future in Colombia. Colombia would be as foreign as China to us. Both of us have lost most of our Spanish speaking skills. My brother and I are American no matter what a piece of paper tells us. Our whole family has worked hard in order to better ourselves in the country we call home. Academically, we have both strived and succeeded with hopes that our accomplishments would outshine our immigration status. All of our hard work will hopefully allow us to continue living and contributing to this wonderful country. Our hopes were in the passage of the Dream Act and becoming the first Dream Children.

He can’t even speak Spanish! He’s almost like you and just look at all the nice white people who defend Juan (video after the jump).

Lethal injection of Latino tortuous, not instantaneous

12:49 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Florida| Justice · 3 Comments

15 Dec 2006

Death by lethal injection is supposed to be one of most “painless” methods of execution of prisoners condemned to this fate. But this apparently was not the case in the execution of Ángel Nieves Díaz, a Latino prisoner in Florida. It took two injections to kill him and witnesses claim that his death was anything but painless:

The execution yesterday of Puerto Rican Angel Nieves Díaz has revived controversy over the use of lethal injection as a method of execution for prisoners in the state of Florida, as the the prisoner needed two doses of the lethal cocktail, which prolonged his agony for a full 34 minutes.
Nieves Díaz, sentenced to death for a 1979 murder, took 34 minutes to die because, according to the state’s prison department, he suffered a kidney condition that impeded his body from metabolizing chemical subtances quickly.

Anti-Gay Republican Latino Leading Republican Party

10:00 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Cuba| Florida| GLBT · Comments Off

14 Nov 2006

Mel%20Martinez.jpg Mel Martinez, the Florida senator of Cuban background, was tapped to be the Republican National Committee general chairman yesterday. Now you’d think that after the major loss of power in the Congress a week ago, the GOP would move more towards the center and try to fit as many people as they can into that party tent but by choosing Martinez, the party is making a major move further right.

Martinez has been on the record opposing Republican senator John McCain’s states’ rights stance on the marriage issue, saying, “It isn’t good enough to say, ‘Leave it up to the states. If we leave it up to the states, we will see the erosion of marriage that we’ve seen by activist courts, which we otherwise will not see if we protect the institution of marriage at the federal level.”

- He attacked his 2004 Republican primary opponent for supporting hate-crimes legislation, accusing him of catering to the “radical homosexual lobby.”

Via / The Advocate
Image Via / Immigration Reform Now

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