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As seen last weekend on Spain’s La Tribuna del Camino Real.
This blogger doesn’t have a lot of background on this and apparently the author, Javi Salado, has apologized for the vignette. Still looking for official sources but the “OMFG” factor still stands.
SPOILER ALERT: The information contained in this post does not hail from The Onion. This actually happened. In real life. In Mexico.
So… Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (aka AMLO) wrote a letter to Spanish King Felipe VI and Pope Francis urging them to apologize for the “abuses” of colonialism and the conquest, which took place, like, a very long long time ago.
In a video filmed at the ruins of the indigenous city of Comalcalco, in southern Mexico, [AMLO] called on Spain and the Vatican to recognize the rights violations committed during the conquest of Mexico.
Estamos en Comalcalco, vamos a Centla a conmemorar 500 años de la batalla de los españoles contra la resistencia de los mayas-chontales. pic.twitter.com/glYO0eAMtX
— Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) 25 de marzo de 2019
Sooner than you can say NO MAMES Mexican Twitter reacted and the reaction was –naturally– hilarious.
El Rey de España, ahorita: pic.twitter.com/b9mhHHgnAA
— Havuck El Robot (@YoHavuck) 26 de marzo de 2019
México, ahora que el Rey de España nos pida perdón. pic.twitter.com/7JIAgzYzIw
— fernando delaflor (@F3rn) 25 de marzo de 2019
—México, cuando el Papa y el Rey de España le ofrezcan una diculpa. pic.twitter.com/6taD4ZFL8M
— Tlatoani Azteca (@SantoTlatoani) 25 de marzo de 2019
Asi el Rey Felipe VI de España con el mensaje de AMLOCO por las disculpas por la Conquista de México#MeCaeQueSiDaMiedo este Loco de AMLO#NiRevocacionNiReeleccion
Moctezuma pic.twitter.com/GGl74lAXXk— Duele México (@me_duele_mexico) 25 de marzo de 2019
¡EXTRA! ¡EXTRA! 📢 la #GuardiaNacional ya se prepara para encarar las repercusiones de la negativa de España a ofrecer disculpas por la Conquista de México 😱😱😱😱😱#SeguiremosInformando #HastaAquíMiReporte 🎤 pic.twitter.com/rJ2cjyIABL
— 𝑭𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒐 𝑮𝒐𝒏𝒛á𝒍𝒆𝒛 (@el_ferchoman) 25 de marzo de 2019
Que AMLO le exija a Holanda una disculpar porque #NoEraPenal 😭https://t.co/4cSgS923HU
— Sopitas (@sopitas) 26 de marzo de 2019
Oh, how I miss the days when Penélope Cruz drank Coke and belched like the guys.
Alas, in this modern, politically-correct times we live, the gorgeous-but-married-mother-of -small-children wants us to drink… non-alcoholic beer, because she’s a lady, you know? and beer is, like, for the dudes.
The following is an ad apparently airing now on Polish television, though several reports say Karmi, the beer for ladies, is making its way to Spain — and beyond.
What a great time to be alive…. NOT.
Via: El Español
Spain’s treasure Juan Joya Borjas (aka El Risitas) jumped to geek fame a year ago when he “helped explain” the truth behind the design of the 2015 MacBook.
One year later… El Risitas is back, this time with a beautifully crafted explanation of how dongles came to be and how we’ll all be miserable as we step into Apple’s dongle hell.
WARNING: Chances are you will die of laughter.
Well, this was awkward.
Officials in the small Galician town of As Pontes wanted to invite Spanish-speakers to a festival celebrating one of its culinary traditions, the grelo or rapini (aka as broccoli rabe.)
But, since apparently nobody in the 11,000-town spoke any Spanish, festival organizers turned to Google Translate.
The result?
The town’s “Feria do grelo” or rapini festival – held every year with tastings and awards for the best grelos – became “Feria clítoris” in Spanish.
“The translated announcement read: The clitoris is one of the typical products of Galician cuisine. Since 1981 … the festival has made the clitoris one of the star products of its local gastronomy.”
Wow. Who thought Galicia could be so much fun?
Via: The Guardian
Surprise! Alex Martínez has taken over the streets of Sabadell, Spain to celebrate the great Gabo on the very wall of my friend’s house.
Bravo, Alex Martínez!
Photo: Laura Martínez, March 6, 2015, Sabadell
Some genius in Spain has created the SiestaApp. Sí, señor. It’s an app that will not only monitor your siesta, but will wake you up right when it’s time to go get a taco –or something.
And to think I had been so negative about technology…
Well, turns out it’s not only Americans who like to go a litle ethnic when it comes to celebrate Halloween.
Palma de Mallorca, Spain-based Turbo Hobby is promoting a new line of “ethnic” costumes, which include the “Disfraz de mexicano” (Mexican costume) featuring a pink, flowery poncho and some kind of Andaluz-looking hat that I didn’t know was Mexican.
Turbo Hobby’s Disfraz de mexicano comes in adult and child sizes and can be yours for only 14.95 euros.
Chances are you won’t look as cute as the guy in the picture here, but it is very likely that some members of your same gender will express their desire to sneak under your poncho…
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
It’s been only a few days since I’ve arrived in Spain, and the summer is in full swing, with Spaniards already preparing for their two-month beach extravaganza (financial crisis or not.)
And with the summer and the heat comes the sexy and the daring, including this TV spot featuring the spectacular Amaia Salamanca, best known for her role as Catalina Marcos in the Spanish version of Colombian hit series Sin tetas no hay paraíso.
Watch Amaia as she invites you to get wet, and enjoy the thrills of summer with a Spanish accent (and a tampon safely secured inside.)
OK, so if you thought your weekend sucked, consider this: While you and I were enjoying our typical Sunday breakfast, two beautiful Obama girls were having a delightful Sunday lunch with none other than the mismísimo King of Spain -and wife.
According to AP:
“Chargrilled turbot” AND “Andalusian-style chilled gazpacho”? Gee! Next time you feel like boasting about your Sunday brunch… Please, pause a little and show some respect … digo, unless you tell me you actually had all that fancy shit for brunch. I mean, come on!
Spanish industrial conglomerate CEPSA couldn´t find a better excuse time to gloat on Spain´s not-so-glorious past.
(For the monolingual crowd: The ad states: The World is Ours…Once Again)
If you are the best Mexican shoe-shiner specializing in boot cleaning and you live in Spain, the best way to promote yourself is, well, simply by stating the truth: that not only you are a Mexican shoe-shiner but that you are the Best of Mexico (working at the Gran Vía, that is.)
Photo: Tania Carreño
What happens when you merge a tall, good-looking Texan man with a stocky, chubby guy wrapped in the Mexican flag and wearing a wrestling mask?
Answer: you get a Burger King Texican Whopper, yet another “delicious” creation from the hamburger chain.
The print ad hails from Spain, and it pitches the new Texican Whopper, an impossible fusion of cajun sauce, cheddar cheese, meat taco and beans (!) The tagline, Unidos por el destino, means “Brought together by destiny.”
My sources tell me that Mexico’s ambassador to Spain, Jorge Zermeño, has already asked Burger King to take down the ad and apologize –apparently because it offends our already decimated flag, and not our cuisine.
But wait! there’s more: the Texican is also a hit in England and has its own TV spot:
Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero surely knows what needs to be done to support tourism to Russia.
Ah…. .. the wonders of Freudian slips.
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