by Patrick Palafox
Ingrid Betancourt
MOBILE GALLERY: A mobile Hispanic art gallery will tour the Southwest, stopping at Whataburger restaurants to show the exhibit.
The Sabrosura Art Tour commences July 9 in Dallas and fi nishes Aug 29 in Houston.
The gallery is scheduled to visit 38 restaurants in Texas and New Mexico The exhibit is a compilation of works by artists who submitted their work to the Dr. Pepper Sabrosura Art Contest last fall and fi nished in the top 23 in balloting by online voters.
Visit wwwdrpeppersabrosura.com or www.whataburger.com for more details.
HISPANICS TODAY: Hispanics Today was recognized by the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce July 1 for walking home with six Telly honors from the 29th Annual Telly Awards.
Augustine Martinez, CEO and president of USHCC, promised that 2008 is going to be a “success” for the channel. Hispanics Today is an English-language television program dedicated to addressing issues that inspire and educate Latinos in the United States.
Members of the FARC
HOSTAGE RESCUE: AFP reports that the recent successful military operation that culminated with the rescue of 15 hostages in Colombia, among them Colombian-French politician Ingrid Betancourt, will be turned into a movie by a Hollywood production company and Bogotá’s RCN-TV. It will be directed by a Colombian director Ten Latino pop stars make 8 pledge in writing to the 15 hostages rescued that they will continue to press for the release of other hostages.
Among the pop stars were Colombians Shakira, Juanes and Carlos Vives. Hispanic Link.
FAR FROM HERE: The only song of the moment in Latin America. A disconcerting topic of KUDAI that reflects in its letter and in its video the reality of a world that ends.
Unusual the scene of a flower that survives inside a tire tube thrown in any of these dumps of New York, Bogota, Santiago of Chile or any metropolis of this planet Earth.
And unusual also the scenes of famine, of war, violence, intolerance, racism, terrorism, being able, global warming, deforestation, and so many and so many despairs that overwhelm this world.
KUDAI, a young group of Chile, appears as the best of Latin rock after the Shakiras, the Mannas and the Juanes.
Its popularity that well comes out, little matters, but its songs matter, its messages and the support of a nonconformist and disconcerted youth that looks wonderingly and with great anger the destruction of the environment. This youth that unfortunately or irresponsibly wants to be ¨FAR FROM HERE ”. This way and quite Don’t leave earth without us.
To where the children go Where they will play later To where the tears go Whom I am going to blame later When the sky has turned hoarfrost And already not, there is no march behind When it is already late And the lights go out When the day turns into night And it is not possible to turn back I will be with you Asking what is what we did And if only one hope was left. I would like that to be again with you. FAR FROM HERE.
