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Bill Clinton Gives Shakira 2 Million Bucks

3:59 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Celebrities| Colombia| Latin America| Politics| society · Comments Off

31 Mar 2009

shakiraclinton_092707_320‘Cause he’s cool like that:

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton donated two million dollars to the school that was built by Shakira’s Pies Descalzos foundation.

Clinton visited the school in Barranquilla on the side of his performance at the IADB summit in Medellín.

The money will be spent on the nutrition of the mostly poor children that attend the school and for a course in how to generate income for the children’s parents.

Clinton received a warm welcome at the IADB Summit, where he urged Latin American bankers to “engage the left”, meaning the people of Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, whom he called “Colombia’s neighbors”.

Via / Colombia Reports

The More Things Change…

1:44 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · TV · Comments Off

8 Oct 2008

While I was looking for the Dana Carvey video below, I came across this video from the 92 debates with George Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton.

It’s interesting to me that apparently we were in the middle of an economic crisis back then too! And that people are asking great questions in the town hall format that the politicians are doing their best to totally screw up the answer to (Just cuz I’m rich doesn’t mean I don’t touch you people occasionally–ai, dios mio! No wonder he lost!) or perform their way out of answering (Bill was literally salivating on his way to talking to that woman).

The only difference is that a third party candidate is at the debate–but of course the people who edited this video seem to think we don’t really want to hear what Perot had to say, so in a way, we’re really in the same position.

I looked all over for Perot’s answer and couldn’t find it, if somebody has a link, leave it in comments!

Carlos%20Fuentes%202.JPGMexican author Carlos Fuentes, on hand in Colombia to help his buddy Gabriel Garcia Marquez celebrate his homage at the International Spanish Language Congress in Cartagena de Indias, had a few things to say about the need for U.S. politicians to speak Spanish, and about our current president:

“He is the worst president of that country that I’ve seen in my lifetime. I’m willing to forgive Ronald Reagan and Nixon, because he is so atrocious and does so much harm that I have never seen anything comparable in terms of stupidity, arrogance and ignorance. This has been a catostrophic presidency and is still causing very dangerous situations in the world,” said the author.

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