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Latin America Entries

11 de Julio, 2008

Latinos [and Allies] Want Specifics, Not Soundbytes

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Latin America , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , , , ,


MMMM! DO YOU SMELL WHAT NEZUA'S COOKIN'? It's the flava of the voting week, and that flava is currently simmering and spiceh!!! It may fade in a few, but for now, that flavor is Obama and McCain's Concern for Latin@ Issues. It also means that the "Left Blogosphere" or...

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29 de Junio, 2008

A Cowboy From the West and the Sword of Simón Bolivar

Categorized under Latin America | Tags: , , ,


A GLIMPSE AT THE MONSTROUS Demagogue Awash in Oil Hugo Chavez through eyes not immediately vilifying (an important journalist, Greg Palast): Some relaxed Setting Strafe the Record Sunday viewing for all my homies....

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27 de Junio, 2008

Bajofondo Friday

Categorized under Latin America , Música | Tags: , ,


BAJOFONDO, a group of Argentine and Uruguayan musicians that I've pointed you to before, remains a Nez-Favorito. In fact, I was flattered that their people just got in touch with me and asked if I was interested in reviewing the new album, Mar Dulce, so they are sending it...

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25 de Mayo, 2008

My Neck of the Woods

Categorized under Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Globalización , Guerra , Historia , Latin America , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , , ,


As you might have heard, two presidential candidates decided to visit the little island of Puerto Rico this Memorial Day weekend. They took in the sights:...

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24 de Mayo, 2008

Risky but Right.

Categorized under Gobierno , Latin America | Tags: , , ,


IT'S MOVES LIKE THIS that impress me with Obama. Politically risky but Right. It's a sign that he does mean to make some real changes. And to my mind, this is one for the better. Because it's about time we started talking about being humane with Cuba. This chokehold...

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17 de Abril, 2008

Open Threadito

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Latin America , Oaxaca , Violencia | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,


O, IF ONLY blogging paid me enough to spend the hours writing here I'd love to. It does not. And yet, there are so many things to talk about between us, and that help inform in such important ways. Burger King, for one thing, who sees "no legal way"...

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17 de Febrero, 2008

Essential Cream of Frida?

Categorized under Arte , Corazón , Cultura , Latin America , Raza | Tags: , , ,


CUANDO PIENSO EN FRIDA KAHLO, I think of pain. And beauty. When I think of Frida Kahlo, I think of a lifetime sentence of physical agony...and the spirit that must have moved this woman, the spirit that enabled her to keep living, and to create. When I think of...

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9 de Enero, 2008

Answering for Thievery: The Worker Deserves His Pay

Categorized under Latin America , M | Tags: , ,


A reader shared more information about Pedro Zapeta with me; Nez originally posted about it earlier last year. Proud to Live in America has created a petition for Zapeta, an immigrant who saved up $58,000 while working as a dishwasher so he could start a business in Guatemala. When he...

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28 de Noviembre, 2007

The USA's Oily Devil

Categorized under Latin America , Medios | Tags: , , ,


CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday CNN may have been instigating his murder when the U.S. TV network showed a photograph of him with a label underneath that read "Who killed him?" The caption appeared to be a production mistake -- confusing a Chavez news...

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10 de Noviembre, 2007

Dole + Dow. Another lovesick couple.

Categorized under Latin America , Planeta | Tags: , , , , , , , ,


Nicaraguan field hands win lawsuit alleging that a pesticide used to boost banana production made them sterile. A Los Angeles jury on Monday awarded $3.2 million to six Nicaraguan farmworkers who had sued Dole Food Co. Inc., arguing they had been rendered sterile some three decades ago by the...

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7 de Noviembre, 2007

José it one more time.

Categorized under Indígena , Latin America , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: , , ,


A FANTASTIC speech by Rep. José Serrano (D) NY on government, trends in Latin America, Hugo Chavez, oil, Cuba, America and the Brown™: They’ve tried it all in Latin America. They tried military dictatorships. The people didn’t try it. They were the victims of it, and it didn’t work. Then...

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29 de Octubre, 2007

¡Viva Presidenta Cristina!

Categorized under Latin America , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , ,


ARGENTINA HAS ELECTED its first woman President. BUENOS AIRES — First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner appeared to win a sweeping victory Sunday to become Argentina's first elected female president, according to exit polls and early official results. [...] Fernandez vowed to reach out to all her compatriots 'without rancor,...

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17 de Octubre, 2007

Sniffing After the "Hispanic Market" Pt. 8995

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AT&T WANTS A PIECE of the vaunted Hispanic Market: Wireless [wiretapping, sneaking, government-colluding] giant, AT&T Inc., revealed earlier this week that it is cutting its rates on calls to Mexico, allowing American cell phone users to call Mexican landlines for as little as $0.05 per minute on the AT&T...

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10 de Octubre, 2007

Sides

Categorized under Latin America , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , ,


I HAVE A FRIEND, he's ten, twelve, maybe even fifteen years younger than me. He is a hardcore "Democrat," though he grew up in a Republican family, and used to be a Republican. Now he has switched sides and is all about the Dems. When I bring up NAFTA,...

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7 de Septiembre, 2007

Murder is not Deportation.

Categorized under Chinga la Chota , Latin America , Ley , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: , , ,


MOUNT KISCO, N.Y., Sept. 6 -- A village police officer was charged on Thursday with second-degree manslaughter in the death of a homeless Guatemalan immigrant four months ago that had shaken this community of 10,000 people. [...] The death of Mr. Perez followed at least two other suspicious and...

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27 de Agosto, 2007

Atenco, Oaxaca, Chiapas

Categorized under Gobierno , Latin America , Oaxaca , Política México | Tags: , , ,




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25 de Agosto, 2007

Elvira Brings the Fight to México

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Gobierno , Latin America , Medios , Migra , Oaxaca , Política México , Protesta | Tags: , , , , ,


ELVIRA WON'T REST, and though she was prevented by men with guns from showing up in D.C. to step to what she felt was unjust persecution and law, she now speaks her peace to the government of Mexico. I have a feeling this mujer is determined to confront the...

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15 de Agosto, 2007

Calm Decapitations

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Latin America , Violencia | Tags: , ,


Immigration Orange has a specific example of what we often take for granted in general, but should not—those dark deeds that corporations do to get us our Juicy Fresh Daily. It has to do with Chiquita Banana and their financing paramilitaries in Colombia. "'It's one of the first –...

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12 de Agosto, 2007

Who Fired the Starting Gun While I Was Sleeping?

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Indígena , Latin America | Tags: , , ,


On Thursday, the Sentinel ran a big story, complete with several circle graphs, on how the area's racial balance is rapidly shifting. Excuse me, I must have been in a coma or something, but when did humankind evolve into four races? I know it was a long time ago, but...

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17 de Julio, 2007

The Apocolyptic Lessons of His Story

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Hipnotismo , Indígena , Latin America | Tags: , , , ,


THE JOYS AND WISDOM that our favorite drunken jew-hating, maya-slandering holocaust-denying, rapture-drooling filmmaker and egomaniac extraordinaire spreads knows no bounds. Now his filmic seed hath been shat upon our world, and where it hath dropp-ed, ignorance now blooms. They're calling it the 'Apocalypto' Factor. No, not a sequel to...

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23 de Marzo, 2007

Mel Gets Academic!

Categorized under Historia , Humor , Latin America , Raza | Tags:


HERE AT THE UNAPOLOGETIC MELWATCH, we have been alerted to an instance of Mr. Gibson brilliantly responding to an educated woman confronting him on his film's racist portrayal of the Mayan people. Watch the hips on this dancefloor wonder as he parries the pointed passion of an assistant professor:...

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14 de Marzo, 2007

Bush Finally Uniting World

Categorized under Foto , Globalización , Latin America , Protesta , Resistencia | Tags: ,


WHAT A CLOWN history will show george w bush to be. What a miserable, lip-flapping, bomb-dropping, leering, stupid, ignorant, gutless clown. America's Right Wing diehards still kneel at the foot of the fake prophet, as if there is anything to be found there but ashes. Ashes and mouse droppings....

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9 de Marzo, 2007

Bush Wins Over Latin American

Categorized under Latin America , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: ,


SAO PAULO, Brazil — President Bush set out on a mission to change the widespread perception that the U.S. is a violent and hegemonic nation and kicked off a six day tour of Latin America on Thursday. Street protests roared through the night in the neighborhoods surrounding his hotel....

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16 de Febrero, 2007

Waking from the Dream, Pt 4.

Categorized under Latin America | Tags: , , ,


AMERICA, the land of the free...and the brave. The land of Democracy, the land of Free Speech, the land of freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, the land where you can work hard and make your dreams come true. Are any of our old ad slogans valid anymore? Even...

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9 de Febrero, 2007

Felipe Calderón, Puppet at the Gates of Davos

Categorized under Globalización , Latin America , Política México | Tags: , , , , ,


MEXICAN "PRESIDENT" FELIPE CALDERON, LIKE SOME SNICKERING BEGGAR desperate to hang from a Bush-y scepter, courts a cadre of global investors by showing what a Nice White Boy he can be, by showing how Down Wit' Murka he is; by showing how much he thinks Chavez is teh Yuk;...

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31 de Enero, 2007

His Words That Mean Nothing

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SOMETIMES, you're just not sure which would be more appropriate. Cue cacophony of laughter? Or throat-blistering howl of anguish? Yet another small example of the conflict that the Decider hath wrought and made of our Glurrious Hamurkan Way. "I am concerned about the undermining of democratic institutions."—George W. Bush,...

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20 de Enero, 2007

Like Crack in the Ghetto, or Trading Booze for Furs

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Globalización , Hipnotismo , Latin America , Ley , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,


WHAT MANY PEOPLE IN AMERICA do not realize is that the default information they have resting in they cabeza about México is well-shaped by a mighty messaging machine that has certain interests to promote. I know this now. I once did not, either. But as a regular reader knows,...

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27 de Diciembre, 2006

The Conquest, Cont.

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Hipnotismo , Historia , Latin America , Medios , Pelicula , Raza | Tags: , , , , , , , ,


WHEN I FIRST WROTE ABOUT APOCALYPTO, it was in somewhat of a lull. The release of the film had been postponed, it was "somewhere out there," with some articles online and a very low level of conversation about the film in general. Of course, as "Mayan indian" was the...

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26 de Diciembre, 2006

The Tyrant Who Wouldn't Shut Up

Categorized under Latin America | Tags: ,


REMEMBER OUR FRIEND AUGUSTO PINOCHET, hero of the American Right? Of those killed for political reasons under Pinochet, more than 1,000 never were found. —AP article Sure, you recall him. He's hard to forget....

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Castro Recovering Slowly but Progressively

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CASTRO DOESN'T HAVE CANCER, after all. Sorry Bush and Pals. I guess not all Christmas wishes come true. :( MADRID, Spain (AP) -- The Spanish surgeon treating Fidel Castro on Tuesday said the ailing Cuban leader does not have cancer and is recovering "slowly but progressively" from a serious...

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22 de Diciembre, 2006

The Long War on Mexico

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Globalización , Gobierno , Historia , Latin America , Migra , Política Estados Unidos , Raza , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,


I'M FINDING these anti-Immigrant Detention and Terror Tactics very upsetting. Deeply disturbing. In a way I'm not sure Mr. Bush or perhaps many citizens even understand. Perhaps in a way not even some of my friends know. I know there are probably some American Mexican@s who don't feel as...

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21 de Diciembre, 2006

Mexico Profundo and A New Way Forward

Categorized under Acción , Arte , Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Globalización , Historia , Latin America , Oaxaca , Política México , Resistencia | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,


GUSTAVO ESTEVA has written an amazing three-part article on Mexico's divisions and decay, her history, the effects of NAFTA, Neoliberalism, the EZLN (and why they are a hugely important fact), Globalization, and the roots and reasons for what is going on right now in Oaxaca. But more than some...

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15 de Diciembre, 2006

The Trains That Ran on Time

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Hipnotismo , Historia , Latin America , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags:


A GREAT ARTICLE ON PINOCHET'S LEGACY by Greg Palast that disputes, refutes, and negates the entire (disgusting) notion of citing great achievements in the implementation of a Free Market as a justification to excuse Pinochet's crimes against humanity. Today's tyranically-minded might want to take note at the implications. If...

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13 de Diciembre, 2006

Nopal Cactus Under Threat

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A DEADLY ENEMY OF THE INDIGENOUS NOPAL cactus approaches Mexico, a moth named Cactoblastis Cactorum. You will recognize the Nopales as the type that the Eagle is perched upon in the symbol on Mexico's flag. For those who do not know, this image is related to the ancient city...

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11 de Diciembre, 2006

Bush 'Remembers' Something or Other

Categorized under Gobierno , Hipnotismo , Historia , Latin America | Tags: , , , , , ,


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration remembered Augusto Pinochet's rule in Chile as a difficult period on Sunday and expressed concern for the victims of his government and their families. [...]"Our thoughts today are with the victims of his reign and their families. We commend the people of Chile...

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10 de Diciembre, 2006

A Cruel Dimension of Reality

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Globalización , Historia , Latin America , Literatura , Road to the Fifth Sun | Tags: ,


WITH THE DEATH, FINALLY, OF AUGUSTO PINOCHET, self-appointed "Supreme Head of the Nation of Chile," I am soothed. While nothing can undo the untold amounts of pain and suffering that his coup and junta brought about, at least we were able to watch him become wracked with disease and...

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3 de Diciembre, 2006

The Bolivian Revolution, Part III

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CHAVEZ, THE MAN WHO CALLED BUSH BY HIS REAL NAME, wins his third term by over 60% of the vote. With most ballots counted in the presidential election, Mr Chavez had secured more than 60% of the vote, officials said.The left-wing president told a cheering crowd in the capital, Caracas,...

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