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I always thought that one good thing about having Mexico’s Finance Minister Agustín Carstens replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn as head of the IMF, is that he would spend more time eating than groping chambermaids in hotel rooms.
But upon refreshing my memory with this picture from a recent Mexico visit by the Sarkozys, I became increasingly anxious at the possibility.
It seems our finance minister has a knack for both, eating and ogling women.
Ay, caramba!
Say what you will about the Gaga Lady. She knows her politics.
During a recent news conference in Mexico City, where she is promoting her new album, the singer made sure to speak her mind about her country’s immigration laws, particularly Arizona’s SB1070.
“I don’t stand by many of those unjust immigration laws in my country,” Lady Gaga told the Mexican media at a fancy Mexico City hotel.
Alas, I’m not sure my people actually paid attention. The 29-year-old was saying all this clad in a see-through blue dress that barely covered her nipples and seated on top of a shiny hot rod motorcycle, which I’m sure made more than one person’s mind wonder about all sorts of things… and not necessarily immigration-related.
As is usually the case with some major news developments, it took my fellow Mexicans very little time to start mocking the whole Osama bin Laden-capture-death thing.
Barely hours after President Obama delivered the news of Bin Laden’s death on Sunday, the hashtag #siosamafueramexicano (If Osama had been Mexican) became a major trending topic on Twitter México.
Among this blogger’s favorite:
If Osama bin Laden had been Mexican, we would have killed him tomorrow…
p.s. The picture on the left is from an actual Algebra book by Aurelio Baldor this blogger grew up studying with.
No kidding [and no wonder I suck at Algebra.]
The area around our local hospital in San Pedro de los Pinos, with the busy ins and outs of sick people, nurses, doctors and equipment providers is also a hotbed for food entrepreneurs.
How can anyone not love Mexico?
Photo: Laura Martínez
Here is the much awaited Coke-Zero spot featuring our beloved “Chicharito” trying out new things in his newly adopted country.
He is so taken by Coke Zero and trying out new things, that he even drives on the “wrong” side of the road and gets all delusional about Mexico winning the World Cup some day.
¿Por qué no?
Hat tip: Hazme el Chingado Favor
And speaking of popular clothing, The Philadelphia Union, a MLS team, is undergoing its own T-shirt drama: Thanks to a multimillion dollar sponsorship by Mexican food giant Grupo Bimbo, the team’s players are going to have to run around wearing the company’s logo or -as many are already calling it, the “offending moniker” BIMBO.
The season hasn’t even started, but some fans are speaking up about the whole thing. At least one fan has said she would not attend games with her kids until the misogynistic slur was removed from the team players chests.
“Misogynistic”? Wait ’till she gets her hands on a Negrito Bimbo. I’m sure she will throw a fit.
Watch below to see Philly Union’s CEO talk about Bimbo and the sacred ground that is the team’s jersey:
I don’t know you, but if I were the marketing fellows at Polo Ralph Lauren I would be jumping on a major branding opportunity going on right now South of the Rio Grande: For some strange reason, it looks like every crook, rapist, kidnapper, drug dealer we succeed in catching, show up wearing the exact same type of Polo Ralph Lauren shirt, looking as proud as I would be wearing a pair of Prada shoes.
Will Polo Ralph Lauren wake up and smell the café? If not, can the rest of us try to persuade these fellows to switch brands so at least some of us can make a little out of the whole thing? Por favor?!
Hat tip: Hazme el chingado favor
Ah…. Mexico! How I love your food, your beverages, your liquefieds (licuados) and -more importantly- your English-language menus.
Photo: Laura Martínez (Chiapa de Corzo, CHIS.)
One of the many perks of living in New York City is that, no matter where you go -or what mood you’re in- you will always bump into a band of authentic mariachis wearing Santa hats. Well, maybe not always, but it happened to me this week at the unbearably touristy, and easily avoidable Columbus Circle shopping mall.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering: that thing showing behind the glass is one of Salvador Dalí’s famous melting watches. How cool is this!
Not content with scaring the bejesus out of white families around the nation’s freeways, the Mexicans are now taking over the heart of the Big Apple: Times Square.
Open 7 days a week, the Mexican Bar -and its scantily clad señoritas– is waiting for you to celebrate its gran “inaguración,” which is kind of like an “inauguración” but way, way better.
So what are YOU waiting for? Come have some real Latin fun! This joint is 100% mMexicano [sic].
Move over Joe & Iman. The Australian pair might have prepared the world’s largest burger, but that beauty pales in comparison with what Mexico City has put together: Meet (or shall I say ‘meat’?) the 40-meter beef taco. So big and delicious, it will make all our troubles go away.
¡Viva el Bicentenario!
If Mexicans needed another reason to vent their ire against a gringo (any gringo) they found a good one this week. Provocative political cartoonist Daryl Cagle really managed to piss off hundreds of Mexicans with what many are calling a “desecration of the Mexican flag.”
Shame on you, Mr. Cagle!!!
Didn’t you know Mexicans are so proud of our flag that we use them to wrap up our beloved celebrities? Gee!
Hat tip to my manito, whom I wish never to see wrapped in anything remotely patriotic
