Hat tip: @hazme
Category: Mexico
Peña Nieto to Meet Obama, Harper Today. This Blogger Will Secure Proper ‘Subtituleishon’
Enrique Peña Nieto (aka as the Savior of Mexico) will meet today in Toluca with President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
But despite all the good vibes and buena onda around this meeting, I’m genuinely worried about Mr. Peña Nieto’s poor command of the English language. So, even though I didn’t vote for the chap, nor I think he is saving Mexico, I’d like to take this opportunity to offer him my services as a professional simultaneous translator; or if he so prefers, to facilitate proper subtituleishon for his speech -which I’m sure will be historic.
Said subtituleishon will look a little bit like this:
I Got Exclusive Access to the Obama-Peña Nieto Agenda
Unless you’ve been living under a rock –or have lost your body and soul to Flappy Bird— President Barack Obama is to visit Enrique Peña Nieto (aka as the Savior of Mexico) this week in Toluca, Mexico, and –as it has now become a tradition– this blogger got exclusive access to the one-day agenda.
For the uninitiated, Peña Nieto is married to Angélica Rivera, a hot blond Latina, who once starred in one of Univision’s highest-rated novelas: Destilando Amor, which by the way was so awesome and successful, it even earned me a byline in none other than The New York Post.
Oh, and in case you were wondering: This is not the first time these two get together. Mr. Peña Nieto first visited Obama in November 2012 at the White House, giving this blogger an opportunity to offer simultaneous subtituleishon.
‘Time’ Puts Mexico’s President on Cover. Hilarity Ensues.
Time Magazine had the super terrific idea to put Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto on the cover of its Feb. 24 cover (most likely knowing that it would stir controversy, especially among my people.)
While I’m not going to get all political or bitchy here as I would like too (who has the time?) I just wanted to take the opportunity to highlight -once again- how wonderfully witty Mexicans can be.
The following are only very few of the many ‘memes’ already making the rounds on the Internet. Enjoy!
I don’t know you but
Mexican Beatles Recreate ‘Abby Road’ for a Good Cause
For the uninitiated, Los Supercívicos is a group of concerned residents, who use comedy to watch the streets of Mexico City and, for the most part, scold apathetic cops and reckless drivers.
In a recent clip, Los Supercívicos decided to incarnate The Beatles (Mexican-English accent included) and recreate Abbey Road’s album cover to help pedestrians cross the maddening streets of my birth city.
Hat tip: Romina González
Halle Berry Goes to Acapulco. Mexican Official Calls her ‘La Negrita’
What do you do when you’re a Mexican politician and forget the name of Halle Berry? Easy! Just call her “la negrita” and everybody will know what you’re talking about.
Article first spotted in Reforma (NOT ElDeforma) by @tropicarlitos
Forget about Mattel’s. This is the Real Barbie Mexicana
Mexican native Omar Ariel Cortés has created a Facebook page showcasing a world in which Mattel’s famous Barbie doll leaves her magical world to join a more sinister one: the world of drug dealing, breast cancer, single motherhood, prostitution and migration, mostly from a Mexican perspective.
I do not know this guy, but I think some of these images are quite powerful. Besides, they are much more real than Mattel’s now infamous Mexican Barbie.
All images taken from Omar’s Facebook page.
Frito Lay Thinks Pico de Gallo Flavored Chips are a Good Idea
I kind of like it when gringos go out of their way and tweak their menus and snacks to cater to “a more diverse America.”
Thanks to their relentless search for multicultural tasty perfection, we now have the Dunkin Donuts’ culturally-relevant Cuban sandwich, 7-Eleven’s Latin-inspired food and the millennial-targeted Doritos Dinamita to name only a few.
And now a new contender has arrived: Frito Lay’s Pico de Gallo flavored chips, which I’m sure will help the m lure the taste buds of my people (i.e. The Mexicans).
But if you are in the restaurant business, don’t think these papitas will help you lure more Hispanics to your establishment… This will, though. Enjoy the windfall.
Thank you @minsd for the tip.
Bieber’s Arrest According to Mexican Tabloid
“Atoran y fichan a Bieber por una carerra callejera; se metió mota, chelas y pastas.
Pure journalistic poetry, alas almost impossible to translate…
Bimbo’s ‘Negrito’ Goes Rasta with ‘Negrito Raztachoc’
If you thought Bimbo’s decision to drop the name ‘Negrito’ from one of its decades-old brands was final, think again.
A “correspondent” of this blog in Ixtapa, Zihuatanejo has spotted this treasure, now in vanilla flavor.
(And no, it’s not old: This Raztachoc is good through May 7, 2014)
Click here to see Bimbo’s negrito “evolution” through the years.
Photo: Begoña Lozano
See? Mexicans are not Hispanic; and this School Proves it
Photo: Laura Martínez, Valladolid, México. 2014©
Food? Drugs? Free Wi-Fi?… Mexico Has you Covered
Foto: Laura Martínez, Mahahual, Mexico 2014
I’ll Take My Cocktail With a Twist of Social Justice
For the uninitiated, a Mexican “cockteleria” is not really a place where you sip cocktails; instead, it is ground zero for shrimp, oysters, mussels, squid and other seafood deliciousness… and if you can have all this with a bit of social justice, all the better.
Photo: Laura Martínez, Isla Mujeres, México 2013
“Cocnuts Coold”… How Can Anybody not Love Mexico?
Photo: Laura Martínez, Isla Mujeres, 2013
Mexican Cutting Edge Technology
Forget Google Glass, the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, Microsoft’s ‘smart bra’ and the like. Only in Mexico will you find baseball hats and sunglasses that double as “devices of mobile communication.”
This, my friends, is what the future looks like.
Greetings from … Mexico, land of cutting edge technology and headquarters of this blog until further notice.
