Do you remember our very own local example of our president elect plan to redistribute wealth by preventing its creation?
And the downtown Pueblo business' owners that lost revenue because of the rally Obama had at their businesses' doors?
Well, it looks like Pueblo's City Manager is en el pico de la piragua: he's been asked to resign, despite council members saying he has done a great job.
I agree the rally and the disgruntled business's owners may not the be sole reason, but it was mentioned in the whole thing...
Cubanita's Thoughts ... far away from el terruño
Dec 4, 2008
Passing on the headlines, a quick look at that poll
Forget the lousy and misguiding headlines; the nuts and bolts of that poll results about Cubans and the embargo are in the questions that were not asked.
Alberto de la Cruz has it, still warm from the oven, at Babalú.
Have at it.
Alberto de la Cruz has it, still warm from the oven, at Babalú.
Have at it.
Target: independent Cuban bloggers
Something is being brewed against Cuban bloggers that are, independently and under their own mind, blogging from the island.
It was not just Yoani and her husband.
Today, Claudia Cadelo, from Octavo Cerco, was also cited by the police.
Here is a round up of blogs spreading the word.
Watching the developing of the events and also spreading the word, in Spanish, are La Finca de Sosa and Desarraigos Provocados,
It was not just Yoani and her husband.
Today, Claudia Cadelo, from Octavo Cerco, was also cited by the police.
Here is a round up of blogs spreading the word.
Watching the developing of the events and also spreading the word, in Spanish, are La Finca de Sosa and Desarraigos Provocados,
Dec 3, 2008
Headlines, Oh my! Those headlines!
Not aiming to get here too deep into the embargo issue, but the headline I read this morning in El Nuevo Herald made me yawn.
Contra el embargo el 55% de los exiliados (55% of exiles are against the embargo).
It was like: OK, here we go again, with those surveys and those results the media insist to portray as definitive opinion trends. The perennial vice to put in your mouth the words you've never said.
That headline does not reflect, at all, the fine print inside the article that says the telephone survey was conducted among 800 people of one Florida district --Miami Dade.
So what! There was not space to add "55% de los exiliados del condado Dade".
Penúltimos Días has a round up of more of those headlines.
And I even got my own in my Google feed news: "Miami Cubans oppose embargo", from the BBC News. They go above and beyond in the dropped headline: Most Cuban-Americans living in Miami want an end to the US embargo against Cuba, a new poll suggests.
According to the 2000 Census, there were 1,097,594 of people self-identified as Cuban or of Cuban ancestry in the US. That made up the 0.4% of the US population.
Currently knocking in the doors of 2009 -and with another census long overdue- logic indicates that both figures should have increased, especially when we have seen the news reports about the higher number of Cubans arriving to the US by all means after the inheritance of power within the castro's clan.
I need someone to mathematically explain me how 800 individuals within a community of more than a million suddenly become "most Cuban Americans", "Miami Cubans", "el exilio cubano", "mayoría de cubanos en Miami", "Cubans in the US".
Did they offer that "Data distortion" class at J-School? I must have missed it.
Contra el embargo el 55% de los exiliados (55% of exiles are against the embargo).
It was like: OK, here we go again, with those surveys and those results the media insist to portray as definitive opinion trends. The perennial vice to put in your mouth the words you've never said.
That headline does not reflect, at all, the fine print inside the article that says the telephone survey was conducted among 800 people of one Florida district --Miami Dade.
So what! There was not space to add "55% de los exiliados del condado Dade".
Penúltimos Días has a round up of more of those headlines.
And I even got my own in my Google feed news: "Miami Cubans oppose embargo", from the BBC News. They go above and beyond in the dropped headline: Most Cuban-Americans living in Miami want an end to the US embargo against Cuba, a new poll suggests.
According to the 2000 Census, there were 1,097,594 of people self-identified as Cuban or of Cuban ancestry in the US. That made up the 0.4% of the US population.
Currently knocking in the doors of 2009 -and with another census long overdue- logic indicates that both figures should have increased, especially when we have seen the news reports about the higher number of Cubans arriving to the US by all means after the inheritance of power within the castro's clan.
I need someone to mathematically explain me how 800 individuals within a community of more than a million suddenly become "most Cuban Americans", "Miami Cubans", "el exilio cubano", "mayoría de cubanos en Miami", "Cubans in the US".
Did they offer that "Data distortion" class at J-School? I must have missed it.
Vigilant for Yoani, and paging Sean Penn -UPDATE
UPDATE: Yoani just posted the description of the visit, and the expected warning. (Heavy sight) That Cubanita has a God-given set of... you know what.
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We need the collaboration of Hollywood's most prominent (and not so too) figures back in the island. Yoani Sanchez, along with her husband, has been cited to the police station.
I agree with Aguaya; don't think is to tell her how much do they like her blog, or to congratulate her for receiving the 2008 Ortega y Gasset Award in digital journalism and/or for being included among the list of the 100 most influential people of the TIME magazine. Maybe for being considered one of the best bloggers in the world by Deutche Welle?
Is is a coincidence that she was organizing an event for independent bloggers in the island, to be held this coming Saturday?
Penn, should we talk about dehumanization here? Or should we rather go into freedom of speech, civil rights, human rights, repression? Would you prefer plain and simple F-R-E-E-D-O-M?
Keep your eyes opened; and post and pass this information as much as you can. The fate of this Cuban blogger may lies in the blogosphere now.
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We need the collaboration of Hollywood's most prominent (and not so too) figures back in the island. Yoani Sanchez, along with her husband, has been cited to the police station.
I agree with Aguaya; don't think is to tell her how much do they like her blog, or to congratulate her for receiving the 2008 Ortega y Gasset Award in digital journalism and/or for being included among the list of the 100 most influential people of the TIME magazine. Maybe for being considered one of the best bloggers in the world by Deutche Welle?
Is is a coincidence that she was organizing an event for independent bloggers in the island, to be held this coming Saturday?
Penn, should we talk about dehumanization here? Or should we rather go into freedom of speech, civil rights, human rights, repression? Would you prefer plain and simple F-R-E-E-D-O-M?
Keep your eyes opened; and post and pass this information as much as you can. The fate of this Cuban blogger may lies in the blogosphere now.
Priorities?
At home, we are animal lovers; with common sense. Have one dog, four birds and tons of fishes in my house; and I'm teaching my dear cubanito to be the same same since he was born.
Always raised with domestic animals --mami and papi have always fell for them too-- I can not simply conceive normal life without them.
My previous two dogs, part of that life that stayed behind when I left my homeland, were abandoned dogs. One little poodle was abandoned by a series of owners that left the island in a row. The big ganadero-mix was picked up by my husband, literally, in the street light 51, in Marianao; he was severely underweight and a walking sack of pulgas, garrapatas y sarna.
That being said (and taking into account that in my wildest dreams, if I ever win the Lotto, I would like to set up a transitional house for battered and needy woman with children and, an animal shelter) I find hard to digest this news about La Sociedad Mundial para la Protección de los Animales (WSPA) offering to help animal in the island battered for three hurricanes.
Do animal deserve that help?
Of course they do!!!
But, hey, what have happened to priorities?
Aren't human beings supposed to be first animals in line?
Wait a minute... human beings there have no problem at all. The government rejected and hand-pick the aid to be "received" by the people, which should mean that they are not that needy after all. See? I'm babbling nonsense here...
I'm with one of the article's commenter: Do the WSPA practice euthanasia? Maybe they could be caring enough and consider to put to sleep the oldest horse in the island, the one that have messed up the animal farm for so many years.
Always raised with domestic animals --mami and papi have always fell for them too-- I can not simply conceive normal life without them.
My previous two dogs, part of that life that stayed behind when I left my homeland, were abandoned dogs. One little poodle was abandoned by a series of owners that left the island in a row. The big ganadero-mix was picked up by my husband, literally, in the street light 51, in Marianao; he was severely underweight and a walking sack of pulgas, garrapatas y sarna.
That being said (and taking into account that in my wildest dreams, if I ever win the Lotto, I would like to set up a transitional house for battered and needy woman with children and, an animal shelter) I find hard to digest this news about La Sociedad Mundial para la Protección de los Animales (WSPA) offering to help animal in the island battered for three hurricanes.
Do animal deserve that help?
Of course they do!!!
But, hey, what have happened to priorities?
Aren't human beings supposed to be first animals in line?
Wait a minute... human beings there have no problem at all. The government rejected and hand-pick the aid to be "received" by the people, which should mean that they are not that needy after all. See? I'm babbling nonsense here...
I'm with one of the article's commenter: Do the WSPA practice euthanasia? Maybe they could be caring enough and consider to put to sleep the oldest horse in the island, the one that have messed up the animal farm for so many years.
Dec 2, 2008
Well, it is not a statue after all...
Great news coming back from a Thanksgiving (voluntary) black out on blogs and news...
It is not an statue; is some guy from Barcelona portraying The Butcher of La Cabaña in New York streets...
But new yorkers should take notes anyway, just in case.
Heavy breath of relief.
It is not an statue; is some guy from Barcelona portraying The Butcher of La Cabaña in New York streets...
But new yorkers should take notes anyway, just in case.
Heavy breath of relief.
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