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Ok, you guys. This is getting ridiculous! A Spanish-language letter that was sent today to thousands of suburban voters in Westchester County had the wrong date for Election Day, urging them to cast their votes on November 9. According to AP:
So, be careful with what you receive, and watch out for wrong dates and funky machines. You might end up just like Homer when he decided to cast his vote…
Artist and museum education consultant Eduardo Pineda has come up with an innovative, politically-correct (and politically-desirable) interpretation of the now-infamous El Negrito, a fixture in the ages-old game of La Lotería.
It is still to be seen if “that one” will make it to the White House, but I can tell you the image above is way more refreshing than the original one.
Via: Open Door Contemporary Art Projects
Verdades Cantadas is the title of this 2008 spot promoting the virtues of Argentine wine. Created by Buenos Aires-based ad shop La Negra, the 40-second spot shows Argentinians are not your typical Hispanics. Case in point: they are mostly blond and have been to the moon.
Via: Briefblog
Yes, my friends. Hold on to your sombreros, because on Saturday Nov. 1 you’ll be able to see both John McCain and Barack Obama having a blast with none other than Don Francisco himself, during his recently digitally-enhanced Sábado Gigante variety show.
Per a Univision press release: Presidential candidates Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama will be profiled and sit down for interviews with “Sábado Gigante” (Gigantic Saturday) host Mario “Don Francisco” Kreutzberger in order to address U.S. Hispanics on Spanish-language television’s longest-running, most popular variety program.
Alas, the interviews will not be live… which is too bad because it would have been great to see the candidates dancing about the set in the arms of some scantily-clad women. Talk about Saturday Night fun!
Attention, Hispanic suckers shoppers willing to pay an annual fee to buy groceries: The Sam’s Club division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. this week said it plans to open a new Mas Club, “that sells products imported from Mexico to cater to Hispanic customers.”
…. which is great, I think, ’cause last time I was in Mexico, everything on display at my local Sam’s Club was Made in China.
(Wal Mart has yet to inform us how Mas Club –sans accent- plans to cater “all Hispanics” with products from Mexico. Will Argentineans finally warm up to good ol’ chilpotle?)
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So according to this Press TV headline, Obama is leading MacCain (not McCain) in certain Hispanic states [sic.] And one can only wonder if that is how Hispanics in “Hispanic states” really pronounce his name. After all, it sounds more like Mac & Cheese.
A Queens mother this month gave birth to six healthy (if tiny) babies, in what is believed to be first sextuples ever born to a Hispanic couple in the U.S.
Baby A, a boy, was born at 10:36 a.m.
Three more boys – B, C and D – arrived at 10:38.
Last came the girls – baby E 10:39 and F at 10:40.
Mother, father, and letter-named baby boys and girls are fine -and already thought of as the target of many, many market studies in the years to come. Will they be Spanish-dominant? Bilingual? Bicultural? Bicoastal? Bi-polar? Acculturated? Straight? English-dominant?
Only God, and market research, will tell.
Welcome all, paisanos (and be gentle with the little one on the right. He looks a bit squeezed there!)
…and he promises you’ll get a fair share of the American Dream (whatever that means.)
Everything has to be used with moderation, especially these very special condoms, for the “elitist penis” and not for the “typical white guy,” as their marketing pitch establishes. But if a Texan guy called Jorge recommends them, hell, we’d better pay close attention. Here’s what Jorge has to say:
Give us earthquakes, floods, stock market crashes, currency devaluations, terrorist attacks, kidnappings, public beheadings and drug wars… Mexicans can overcome anything… just as long as they are rich and got themselves a juicy long-term contract with the Canal de las Estrellas —Otherwise, you’re pretty much screwed.
(Oh, and in case you were wondering… lots of these telenovela guys have already moved to Miami.)
Photo: Hazme el Chingado Favor
From the creators of the now infamous fake Daddy Yankee commercial comes the latest pitch for Cablevision’s IO en español package.
Hold on to your soccer shorts, your wrestling masks and -of course- your sombreros!
Oprah will now be available to you En Español, per a Target Corp.-sponsored agreement to include Secondary Audio Programming (SAP) and close captions in Spanish starting today.
I cannot wait to be muy inspirada!
My fellow chilangos have found a creative (if maybe not infallible) way to protect their property in the face of Mexico City’s alarming insecurity levels.
Translation: This truck is protected by Spider Man.
Photo: Periódico Reforma
Here’s how ImpreMedia-owned El Diario La Prensa chose to show its endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama. A front page editorial on today’s paper calls for change in the face of the nation’s near-collapse.
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