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Indigenous woman wins Nayarit beauty pageant for the first time

The Wixárika college student will be queen of the Nayarit state fair

by the El Reportero’s news services

An indigenous woman has won the contest to be the queen of the Nayarit State Fair for the first time.
Yukaima González, 18, from a Wixárika community in the mountainous municipality of Guadalupe Ocotán, is a second-year in college student majoring in sports and physical culture.

In an interview with the newspaper El Universal, the young beauty pageant winner said she hoped her participation in the contest would inspire her community.

“In my community we are losing our [indigenous] language, and residents are ashamed of wearing their traditional clothing. I’m here so that they’ll feel proud of our roots and who we are.”

González impressed contest judges during a “traditional dress” round with her outfit, which sported intricate bead work and traditional Wixárika god’s eyes. She also made an impression with her proposed social project, which would provide support to Nayarit’s isolated mountain communities to open artisanal bakeries to support self-employment and community well-being.

She was one of 15 contestants from each of Nayarit’s districts, and one of two indigenous women who, for the first time ever, competed in this year’s contest. The second participant was Adriana Díaz López, a Cora indigenous woman from the municipality of Nayer.

In a message on Twitter, state congresswoman Julieta Mejía attributed the young women’s participation to Oaxaca actress Yalitza Aparicio’s lead role in Roma, stating that “Alfonso Cuarón transformed something and there’s no going back.”

Many others shared the congresswoman’s opinion on social media, and during her interview with El Universal, González expressed her admiration for the actress, saying she was proud to have the opportunity as well to represent her community and its culture.

Viña del Mar Festival Celebrates Highly its 60th Anniversary
The Viña del Mar International Song Festival, considered here ”the largest Latin event in the world”, opens Sunday with a show in tune with the celebration of its 60th anniversary.

Regueton duo Wisin and Yandel, which returns to the scene after a long separation; the Chilean humorist Felipe Abello and the Colombian Sebastian Yatra, which causes furor among young Chilean girls are scheduled for the opening in Quinta Vergara, main venue of the event.

But this is only the button of the show, because until March 1, the closing day, international stars like Marc Anthony, David Bisbal, Marco Antonio Solis, Backstreet Boys, Bad Buny, Becky G, Raphael and Carlos Rivera will pass through the enormous stage, along with some very popular Chilean figures.

Although this Sunday is the start of the big concerts that are the main attraction of the festival, the event really began on Friday with a gala in which, with the exception of Yatra, none of the figures who wil seek to pocket the ‘monster’ was there, as is referred to the not at all pleasing public that crowds every year the Quinta Vergara.

Significantly, the old-fashioned neither exponents of the Chilean elite nor the most relevant figures of the country’s art and intellectuality were not there either.

Mexico Guarantees Funds to Support Film Production
The Ministry of Culture of Mexico guaranteed several funds to support the film production of Foprocine, Fidecine and Eficine, said its head Alejandra Frausto Guerrero to deny rumors to the contrary.

Frausto Guerrero also indicated that despite speculation about the Ariel awards, in 2019 these awards will be delivered as is already a tradition for several decades and reported that has already held meetings with members of the Mexican Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences that organizes the contest to recognize filmmakers, performers, technicians and makers of Mexican films.

She recognized that the Ariel awards are very important for the national film industry, so the 61st edition of these awards is not cancelled, and will have the full support of the Ministry of Culture.

Abel Sánchez & the Song for Cesar Allstar Revue, introducing The Paper Thin Band

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

Founded in 2017, The Paper Thin Band plays a wide variety of fun, dancable music with a good dose of classic rock and soul.

Whether you enjoy quality orignal music or cover tunes, The Paper Thin Band delivers a great show and fun for all!

Inspired by rhythm guitar and songwriter Rubin Morales, Paper Thin is a classic hits variety band with a carefully crafted and always evolving song list.
Paper Thin runs tunes from Tower of Power, Tom Petty, Rare Earth, Wild Cherry and James Brown just to name a few.

San Francisco native Al Sánchez brings his own style of Latin Rock inspiration to the tenor Sax. Roland Morales adds an aura of arena-rock to soaring guitar riffs.

An event you can’t miss, on Saturday, March 2. Advance: $20/ Door: $25
Doors open 7 p.m. Show a 8 p.m. At Club Fox- 2209 Broadway, Redwood City. Call 415-285-7719 or write DrBGMalo@aol.com.

SF art exhibition by Antony Holdsworth and Beryl Landau
Anthony Holdsworth features the start of a new series entitled “Day and Night in the Mission”. Using a LED lamp attached to his easel, he documents locations as they transition into night.

The Mission District opens a window on Latin America while simultaneously enriching the culture of San Francisco. He works on site to channel the unique energy of this community and also to bear witness to the changes that are being forced on it by gentrification.

The exhibition includes works El Farolito by Day and Night, by Anthony Holdsworth, oil/panel, and Rise and Shine, by Beryl Landau.

Beryl Landau calls her work “symbolic landscape”. The acrylic paintings in this show depict geographical locations but evoke inner feelings. Each image draws the viewer into a particular space and mood. Landau’s clear colors range from high contrasts to subtle gradations.

Images of changing San Francisco are prevalent in her recent work. The paintings often convey the juxtaposition of nature and the modern world.

Alley Cat Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco. Exhibition from March 2 to 31
Reception: March 2, 7 to 9 p.m.

California Hispanic Business Policy Summit
Join the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce in Sacramento, California for the California Hispanic Business Policy Summit. This annual summit is the premier legislative conference for California’s small businesses and the Hispanic community to learn and engage in the key issues impacting the growth of California’s economy. Meet the policymakers, community leaders, and subject matter experts who are working to provide solutions.
During the Summit, we will use our collective voice to advance legislative issues for the small business community. Participants will take part in issue briefings and engage with members of the legislature and Sacramento insiders, while gaining in – person perspectives in the legislative process. Registrants will have the opportunity to meet with their local elected officials in their state offices, as well as, legislative leaders at the Legislative Reception.
Program at 10:00 a.m. The Citizen Hotel, doors open at 11 a.m. Lunch is served at 12:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Annual Hispanic Small Business Luncheon, at the State Capitol, from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Legislative Appointments at the State Capitol, participants attend advocacy meetings with Legislators. From 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. – Leland Stanford Mansion
Annual Hispanic Appointees’ Reception
Celebration of California’s Hispanic Appointees
On Wednesday, March 13, at The Citizen Hotel, 926 J St, Sacramento, CA

Greening Economic Summit
This year’s Economic Summit happens with an exciting, fully revamped program.
From our redesigned, interactive Equity Lab to an array of exciting racial justice panels to a fireside chat with an internationally renowned headliner to be announced shortly, you don’t want to miss your chance to attend the Bay Area’s largest racial equity conference. On April 26, 2019, The Greenlining Institute, 360 14th Street, 2nd Floor, Oakland,

In Oaxaca, ‘Yalitza effect’ triggers move to revitalize Oaxacan culture

Indigenous art, culture and domestic workers’ rights get new attention in the state

by the El Reportero’s news servicesW

Oscar-nominated actress Yalitza Aparicio is an international agent of change, according to the governor of Oaxaca, where her fame is prompting authorities to act.

The success of the 25-year-old Mixtec star of Alfonso Cuarón’s film Roma has triggered a swift reaction from Oaxaca authorities, who have announced plans to revitalize the artistic and cultural life of the state’s indigenous communities and pledged to improve the labor rights of domestic workers.

Oaxaca Governor Alejandro Murat has also announced a new tourist route from Mexico City to Aparicio’s home town of Tlaxiaco.

The preschool teacher-turned-actress missed out on an individual Oscar at Sunday night’s Academy Awards but Murat still described Aparicio – who plays the role of a domestic worker in Roma – as a winner and a star who is capable of helping to change discriminatory attitudes towards indigenous people around the world.

The governor said that state authorities are looking at proposals to improve the labor rights and benefits of domestic workers, stating that the government will provide them with social security, a retirement pension and housing credits.

Murat added that his government will seek to create a culture in which people treat women working in their homes as another member of the family rather than just an employee.

The governor also said the people of Oaxaca are very proud of Aparicio, the success of Roma at the Oscars and the fact that Cuarón continues to help promote the state as he did in his 2001 film Y Tú Mamá También, which features the Oaxacan coastline.

Murat explained that there was a possibility that the state government would invite Cuarón, his production team and the cast of Roma to Oaxaca to work together on a new project.

Murat added that his government will seek to create a culture in which people treat women working in their homes as another member of the family rather than just an employee.

The governor also said the people of Oaxaca are very proud of Aparicio, the success of Roma at the Oscars and the fact that Cuarón continues to help promote the state as he did in his 2001 film Y Tú Mamá También, which features the Oaxacan coastline.

Murat explained that there was a possibility that the state government would invite Cuarón, his production team and the cast of Roma to Oaxaca to work together on a new project.

She added that the city will be invited to participate in this year’s Guelaguetza, an annual festival that celebrates Oaxacan culture, with a specific focus on Tlaxiaco’s food and architecture.
Aguilar also said that state authorities will seek to reinvigorate the Mixtec artistic, cultural and music scene and, with the support of the National Autonomous University (UNAM), work to preserve the native languages spoken in Oaxaca.

Meanwhile, the mayor of Tlaxiaco has announced that the municipal government will bestow its highest honor on Aparicio in recognition of her status as a distinguished citizen.

The actress has also inspired at least two murals, one in the market of her hometown and another in the Mexico City borough of Iztapalapa while singer-songwriter Humberto Reyes has composed a ballad called El Corrido de Yalitza Aparicio.

Although Aparicio’s success has triggered a negative reaction from some, many people are celebrating the actresses’ emergence as a new –and different – role model and her representation of Mexico on the world stage.

Congratulating Cuarón for taking home three Oscars, federal Culture Secretary Alejandra Frausto wrote on Twitter: “Congratulations, you made the world see the diversity of the country we are.”
Source: Milenio (sp)

Tribute to one of the greatest Mexican singers

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

Tribute to Juan Gabriell with Carlos Daniels in “Todo y Mi Tristeza Tour” accompanied by the Full Mariachi Band on Friday, March 1, at 8 p.m., at Club Roccapulco, 3140 Mission St, San Francisco. Tickets starting at $ 27.50.

SF art exhibition by Antony Holdsworth and Beryl Landau
Anthony Holdsworth features the start of a new series entitled “Day and Night in the Mission”. Using a LED lamp attached to his easel, he documents locations as they transition into night.

The Mission District opens a window on Latin America while simultaneously enriching the culture of San Francisco. He works on site to channel the unique energy of this community and also to bear witness to the changes that are being forced on it by gentrification.

The exhibition includes works El Farolito by Day and Night, by Anthony Holdsworth, oil/panel, and Rise and Shine, by Beryl Landau.

Beryl Landau calls her work “symbolic landscape”. The acrylic paintings in this show depict geographical locations but evoke inner feelings. Each image draws the viewer into a particular space and mood. Landau’s clear colors range from high contrasts to subtle gradations.
Images of changing San Francisco are prevalent in her recent work. The paintings often convey the juxtaposition of nature and the modern world.

Alley Cat Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco. Exhibition from March 2 to 31
Reception: March 2, 7 to 9 p.m.

Abel Sánchez & the Song For Cesar Allstar Revue, introducing The Paper Thin Band
Founded in 2017, The Paper Thin Band plays a wide variety of fun, dancable music with a good dose of classic rock and soul.

Whether you enjoy quality orignal music or cover tunes, The Paper Thin Band delivers a great show and fun for all!

Inspired by rhythm guitar and songwriter Rubin Morales, Paper Thin is a classic hits variety band with a carefully crafted and always evolving song list.
Paper Thin runs tunes from Tower of Power, Tom Petty, Rare Earth, Wild Cherry and James Brown just to name a few.

San Francisco native Al Sánchez brings his own style of Latin Rock inspiration to the tenor Sax. Roland Morales adds an aura of arena-rock to soaring guitar riffs.

An event you can’t miss, on Saturday, March 2. Advance: $20/ Door: $25
Doors open 7 p.m. Show a 8 p.m. At Club Fox- 2209 Broadway, Redwood City. Call 415-285-7719 or write DrBGMalo@aol.com.

California Hispanic Business Policy Summit

Join the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce in Sacramento, California for the California Hispanic Business Policy Summit. This annual summit is the premier legislative conference for California’s small businesses and the Hispanic community to learn and engage in the key issues impacting the growth of California’s economy. Meet the policymakers, community leaders, and subject matter experts who are working to provide solutions.

During the Summit, we will use our collective voice to advance legislative issues for the small business community. Participants will take part in issue briefings and engage with members of the legislature and Sacramento insiders, while gaining in – person perspectives in the legislative process. Registrants will have the opportunity to meet with their local elected officials in their state offices, as well as, legislative leaders at the Legislative Reception.

Program at 10:00 a.m. The Citizen Hotel, doors open at 11 a.m. Lunch is served at 12:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Annual Hispanic Small Business Luncheon, at the State Capitol, from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Legislative Appointments at the State Capitol, participants attend advocacy meetings with Legislators. From 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. – Leland Stanford Mansion

Annual Hispanic Appointees’ Reception
Celebration of California’s Hispanic Appointees
On Wednesday, March 13, at The Citizen Hotel, 926 J St, Sacramento, CA

Greening Economic Summit
This year’s Economic Summit happens with an exciting, fully revamped program.
From our redesigned, interactive Equity Lab to an array of exciting racial justice panels to a fireside chat with an internationally renowned headliner to be announced shortly, you don’t want to miss your chance to attend the Bay Area’s largest racial equity conference. On April 26, 2019, The Greenlining Institute, 360 14th Street, 2nd Floor, Oakland,

Armando Manzanero returns to Cuba attracted by salsa and habanos

por los servicios de noticias de El Reportero

The 21th Habano Festival and the fourth Salsa Festival attract the Mexican singer-songwriter Armando Manzanero, who says he admires the island for his music, joy and strength.

This is the second time that I have the pleasure of being here, even though I was raised in a very close place, in Yucatan, said the author of iconic themes such as Somos novios and Nada personal. Manzanero attended the opening gala of the Salsa Festival, held in the Metropolitan Park of Havana, venue of the event until Feb. 24.

There he arrived to greet the local singer Hayla María Mompié, who recently published an album with 11 songs by the Mexican to which he incorporated the Cuban-like tone of his salsa.

During the show, Hayla -as he is known in the artistic world- left the planned repertoire to interpret Adoro y Huele a peligro, two other paradigmatic themes of Manzanero.

At the discretion of this teacher, salsa music does not change much between Venezuela, Cuba and Puerto Rico.

Everything is tropical and everything has a charm and an enormous talent, affirmed the Mexican artist, very willing to dance, at 83 years of age.

In addition to Hayla, the opening gala was the young orchestra Papucho and Manana Club, as well as the Puerto Rican singer Jerry Rivera, who revived a great part of his successes in this capital.

Banda colombiana Morat estará en SF

La banda colombiana, Morat hará su primera parada en SF, cuando inicie su una gira que los llevará a 15 de las ciudades más importantes de los EE.UU., donde presentarán su nuevo álbum, Balas Perdidas.
Llengan por primera vez a los Estados Unidos para presentar un álbum que ha sido certificado disco cuádruple de platino por alcanzar el #1 en ventas. Han sido galardonados con distintos premios, como el premio a Mejor Banda Revelación en los Premios 40 Principales, Mejor Banda Revelación en los Premios Cadena Dial, han sido nominados a un Latin Grammy como Mejor Nuevo Artista y recientemente han sido nominados a los Premios MTV MIAW en dos de sus categorías.

También son reconocidos en todo Latinoamérica y Europa, llevando su música y talento a distintas ciudades como Madrid, Barcelona, Monterrey, Costa Rica, entre otras.

Su gira norteamericana los llevará a los estados de California, Arizona, Texas, Illinois, Virginia, Nueva York, Georgia, y Florida. “Balas Perdidas U.S. Tour” tuvo tres exitosos espectáculos agotados en Chile: el 3 de febrero en Enjoy Pucón, el 5 en Enjoy Viña y el 8 en Enjoy Coquimbo.
En San Francisco se presentarán el 4 de abril en el The Regency Ballroom.

INAH to reopen exhibition of artifacts found in Oaxaca tomb
The pieces were uncovered at the Monte Albán archaeological site in 1932

The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) will reopen an exhibition in Oaxaca today that features more than 400 valuable artifacts found in a tomb at the Monte Albán archaeological site in 1932.

The pieces discovered by archaeologist Alfonso Caso in tomb seven of the Zapotec site and dubbed “The Treasure of Monte Albán” include objects made of gold, jade, rock crystal and jaguar bones, among other materials.

The exhibition, made up of a total of more than 600 artifacts, is housed in Room 3 of the Oaxaca Museum of Cultures and will be inaugurated at a ceremony at 7 p.m. The general public can visit starting on Saturday, Feb. 23.

Curators have updated the exhibition by including plaques offering new interpretations of the pieces, while the integration of modern technology will also contribute to providing an enhanced experience for visitors.

The name of the exhibition is Tomb Seven: The Place of the Ancestors.
INAH archaeologist and exhibition curator Nelly Robles told the newspaper El Economista that as a result of new research it is now known that “tomb seven was an ossuary and not a tomb for a specific dignitary.”

She said that both Zapotec and Mixtec people used the tomb, the latter leaving human remains, jewels and precious materials that were “the relics of their ancestors.”
Robles added that the Mixtec people also held ceremonies at the tomb at which they asked for favors from their deities.

The presiding gods of the tomb were Mictlantecuhtli, Mesoamerican god of death and the underworld, and Xipe Tótec, a life-death-rebirth deity.

Both are represented in the different objects found by Caso in 1932, Robles said.
The archaeologist explained that the Mixtec people first started carrying out rituals at the tomb around 1350 AD and continued to do so until the early days of the Spanish colonial era.
The reopening of “The Treasure of Monte Albán” to the public is part of celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the creation of INAH in 1939.
Source: El Economista (sp).

Children’s Concerts at Kohl Mansion

An interactive program for audiences of all ages

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

VNote Ensemble – Hailed for their spirited performances and fascinating fusion of jazz with Latin and folk rhythms, the VNote Ensemble gives voice to the hidden treasure that is Venezuelan music as they explore its connection to North American jazz.

Blending the infectious rhythms of joropo, swing, gaita, soul, be-bop, and calypso (among many others), the VNote Ensemble defiantly ignores musical boundaries. Exquisite arrangements and unique compositions, colors, and rhythms blend together to create a truly unique sound sure to make children of all ages sing and clap for joy!
Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019 at Kohl Mansion. Two 45-minute shows: 10:25 a.m., repeats at 11:35 a.m.

Paintings by Beryl Landau & Anthony Holdsworth
Holdsworth features the start of a new series entitled “Day and Night in the Mission”. Using a LED lamp attached to his easel, he documents locations as they transition into night.

The Mission District offers a unique window on Latin America while simultaneously enriching the culture of San Francisco. He works on site to channel the unique energy of this community and also to bear witness to the changes that are being forced on it by gentrification.

Beryl Landau calls her work “symbolic landscape”. The acrylic paintings in this show depict geographical locations but evoke inner feelings. Each image draws the viewer into a particular space and mood. Landau’s clear colors range from high contrasts to subtle gradations.

Images of changing San Francisco are prevalent in her recent work. The paintings often convey the juxtaposition of nature and the modern world.

Alley Cat Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco. Exhibition from March 2 to 31
Reception: March 2, 7 to 9 p.m.

Abel Sanchez & the Song For Cesar Allstar Revue, introducing The Paper Thin Band
An event you can’t miss, on Saturday, March 2. Advance: $20/ Door: $25
Doors open 7 p.m. Show a 8 p.m. At Club Fox- 2209 Broadway, Redwood City. Call 415-285-7719 or write DrBGMalo@aol.com.

What’s New At The Presidio – Spring, 2019
March – May Events Announced

It’s not too early to plan a spring visit to the Presidio, San Francisco’s urban national park with nearly 1,500 acres of space in which to play, right at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge. With two historic boutique hotels, Lodge at the Presidio and Inn at the Presidio, delicious restaurants and various activities, the Presidio can be a vacation destination in itself, or added to any San Francisco itinerary as a calm oasis close to the action of downtown.

Nature comes alive in the Presidio in springtime, and visitors are always welcome to stop by the Presidio Visitor Center to pick up a hiking map and suggestions for exploring the park’s free picnic areas, overlooks and trails

Transportation in the Park

The free PresidiGo Shuttle takes visitors from two locations in downtown San Francisco to the Presidio, and PresidiGo’s Around the Park service offers visitors two routes within the park. San Francisco MUNI buses access the Presidio as well. Options for bike rental include Sports Basement and Electric JUMP Bikes. See: https://www.presidio.gov/transportation

The popular Presidio Picnic mobile food extravaganza, sponsored by the Presidio Trust and Off the Grid, returns to the Main Post lawn each Sunday beginning March 31. Self-guided adventures in nature always await, especially in spring as the park’s flora and fauna awake to the season.

EstrellaTV Opens Its Doors to Students

Empowering the community through education

by the El Reportero’s news services

EstrellaTV kicked off this year’s effort on Feb. 11 by hosting 13 young students from The Orange County Community Housing Corporation (OCCHC).

The students, who participate in the organization’s SteppingUp College Awareness Program, had an opportunity to get a behind the scenes glimpse of how television broadcasting is made and the many career opportunities available in the industry.

Students were able to interact with on-air talent, producers and technical personnel as they navigated master control rooms and various studio sets, and got to experience a live taping of a news promo segment.

The Orange County Community Housing Corporation (OCCHC) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to transition extremely low-income families to greater self-sufficiency by assisting with housing and education.

French fire fighters and police officers certified the security of the Museum of Visual Arts in Uruguay for an exhibition of the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso”s works, Culture Minister Maria Julio Muñoz confirmed.

The exhibition will take place from March 29 to June 30, as a result of an agreement signed on Feb. 14 between the Museum of Paris, which holds Picasso’s works, and the Uruguayan institution.
In order to reach the agreement, the two French agencies inspected the conditions of the museum that will exhibit Picasso’s paintings in Montevideo.

Muñoz made it clear that Montevideo will be only place in the Americas where the exhibition will take place, and it will tour other continents. She added that the museum was chosen because its director, Enrique Aguerre, enjoys great prestige among international artists.

Uruguayan Museum certified to host Picasso exhibition
French fire fighters and police officers certified the security of the Museum of Visual Arts in Uruguay for an exhibition of the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso”s works, Culture Minister Maria Julio Muñoz confirmed.

The exhibition will take place from March 29 to June 30, as a result of an agreement signed on Feb. 14 between the Museum of Paris, which holds Picasso’s works, and the Uruguayan institution.
In order to reach the agreement, the two French agencies inspected the conditions of the museum that will exhibit Picasso’s paintings in Montevideo.

Muñoz made it clear that Montevideo will be only place in the Americas where the exhibition will take place, and it will tour other continents. She added that the museum was chosen because its director, Enrique Aguerre, enjoys great prestige among international artists.

Also in Uruguay:

Uruguayan wins Best Director Award at Sundance
Uruguayan Lucia Garibaldi wins the award for best director at the prestigious Sundance International Film Festival with the film The Sharks, the first one representing her country in this contest.
The young actress Romina Bentancur stars the film in the role of a teenager who lives on the Uruguayan coast and gets ready to receive a flood of tourists while facing the vicissitudes of amorous awakening.

Before the competition, she said, she proposed to work with non-professional actors and before choosing her, she saw about 50 videos, and discovered in her ‘one of those faces, those voices, those ways of moving that are always finding something new.’
Garibaldi, graduated from the Uruguayan Film School, thanked the official support she received to finish the film and announced that she has her second feature film, to be called The Last Queen.
She received this award a day after her compatriot Alvaro Brechner won in Seville the Goya for Best Screen Adaptation in the Uruguayan-Argentinean-Spanish co-production A Twelve-Year Night.
The actor Robert Redford founded the Sundance Festival in Utah, United States to open doors to quality art productions lacking powerful commercial scaffolding.

Happy February! “Love is in the air”

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

Salsa Extra performs music from across Latin America. Eileen Torrez on vocals, Avo Chalaganyan on drums, Amy Levine on piano, Sean Norris on saxophone, Jules Anastasia on percussion, and Eli Torrez on bass.
At Cha Cha Cha, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., 2327 Mission Street at 19th, San Francisco.

SF Young Professionals organize fundraiser for Secretary Julián Castro
Julian Castro, who served as the mayor of his native San Antonio, Texas from 2009 until he joined President Obama’s cabinet in 2014 as the 16th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is running for president of the United States.
Castro, who grew up in an activist family in San Antonio, studied at Stanford University and Harvard Law School, and was elected to the San Antonio City Council when he was just 26.
Castro announced he is running in the 2020 presidential election.
The fundraiser will take place on Tuesday, Feb, 12, at 6:30 p.m,, at 111 Minna Street, San Francisco.

Paintings by Beryl Landau & Anthony Holdsworth
Holdsworth features the start of a new series entitled “Day and Night in the Mission”. Using a LED lamp attached to his easel, he documents locations as they transition into night.
The Mission District offers a unique window on Latin America while simultaneously enriching the culture of San Francisco. He works on site to channel the unique energy of this community and also to bear witness to the changes that are being forced on it by gentrification.
Beryl Landau calls her work “symbolic landscape”. The acrylic paintings in this show depict geographical locations but evoke inner feelings. Each image draws the viewer into a particular space and mood. Landau’s clear colors range from high contrasts to subtle gradations.
Images of changing San Francisco are prevalent in her recent work. The paintings often convey the juxtaposition of nature and the modern world.
Alley Cat Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco. Exhibition from March 2 to 31
Reception: March 2, 7 to 9 p.m.

Abel Sanchez & the Song For Cesar Allstar Revue, introducing The Paper Thin Band
An event you can’t miss, on Saturday, March 2. Advance: $20/ Door: $25
Doors open 7 p.m. Show a 8 p.m. At Club Fox- 2209 Broadway, Redwood City. Call 415-285-7719 or write DrBGMalo@aol.com.

What’s New At The Presidio – Spring, 2019
March – May Events Announced

It’s not too early to plan a spring visit to the Presidio, San Francisco’s urban national park with nearly 1,500 acres of space in which to play, right at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge. With two historic boutique hotels, Lodge at the Presidio and Inn at the Presidio, delicious restaurants and various activities, the Presidio can be a vacation destination in itself, or added to any San Francisco itinerary as a calm oasis close to the action of downtown.
Nature comes alive in the Presidio in springtime, and visitors are always welcome to stop by the Presidio Visitor Center to pick up a hiking map and suggestions for exploring the park’s free picnic areas, overlooks and trails

Transportation in the Park

The free PresidiGo Shuttle takes visitors from two locations in downtown San Francisco to the Presidio, and PresidiGo’s Around the Park service offers visitors two routes within the park. San Francisco MUNI buses access the Presidio as well. Options for bike rental include Sports Basement and Electric JUMP Bikes. See: https://www.presidio.gov/transportation
The popular Presidio Picnic mobile food extravaganza, sponsored by the Presidio Trust and Off the Grid, returns to the Main Post lawn each Sunday beginning March 31. Self-guided adventures in nature always await, especially in spring as the park’s flora and fauna awake to the season.

Covert chemical warfare: 100,000 deaths a year

by Jon Rappoport

Medical News Today reports that, in 2011, there was a modest uptick in the number of prescriptions written in the US.

The increase brought the total to: 4.02 billion.

Yes, in 2011, doctors wrote 4.02 billion prescriptions for drugs in America.

That’s an average of roughly 13 prescriptions for each man, woman, and child.

That’s about one new prescription every month for every American.

The Medical News Today article concluded, “…the industry should be heartened by the growth of the number of prescriptions and spending.” Yes, I’m sure the drug industry is popping champagne corks.
We’re talking about prescriptions here. We’re not talking about the number of pills Americans took. We’re also not counting over-the-counter drugs or vaccine shots.

Pharmacopoeia, a 2011 exhibition at the British Museum, estimated that “the average number of pills a person takes in his or her own lifetime in the UK is 14,000.” That’s as a result of prescriptions. Including over-the-counter drugs, the 14,000 number would swell to 40,000 pills taken in a lifetime.
What are the effects of all these drugs?

We are looking at a supreme Trojan Horse that is rotting out America and all other countries from the inside. Wars, no wars, economic deprivation, economic prosperity, the drugs continue to do their work, debilitating and ruining and terminating lives.

Many sources can be cited to confirm this assessment.

On January 8th, 2001, the LA Times published an article by one of the best medical reporters in the business, Linda Marsa: “When Good Drugs Do Harm.” Marsa quoted researcher Dr. David Bates, who indicated that, in the US, there are 36 million serious adverse reactions to medical drugs per year.
On July 26, 2000, the Journal of the American Medical Association published the most stunning mainstream estimate of medical-drug damage in history: “Is US health really the best in the world?” The author was Dr. Barbara Starfield, a respected public-health researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

Starfield concluded that medical drugs were killing Americans at the rate of 106,000 per year.
That’s a million deaths per decade.

This is a conservative sketch of the Trojan Horse that has been placed in the center of every country in the world.

The pharmaceutical juggernaut will continue, no doubt about it. The only question is, how many people will wake up and seek another way?
The destruction of societies by medical drugs goes far beyond what some people call “over-prescribing.” This isn’t just a tilt in the wrong direction. It isn’t simply errors of judgment compounded by the number of doctors dispensing medicines.

Those are all polite terms suggesting the situation can be corrected through a show of good will and better judgment. That will never happen.

Countries of the world are literally being assaulted by pharmaceutical companies and their foot-soldier doctors. It’s chemical warfare.

To even begin to see light at the end of the tunnel, hundreds of millions of people must add themselves to the rolls of those who already are pursuing better health through natural means.
We need an all-out rebellion against the Pharmacopoeia.

Not even the Nazis and their dearly beloved cartel, the monster IG Farben, dreamed of the day when the citizenry would line up and demand to ingest more and more life-destroying chemicals.

In case anyone thinks the FDA, the single agency responsible for certifying drugs as safe and effective, has “overlooked the problem,” Google “FDA, Why Learn About Adverse Drug Events.” You’ll find the following statements on the FDA’s own site:

“Over 2 MILLION serious ADRs [Adverse Drug Events] yearly; 100,000 DEATHS yearly.”
The only thing missing is:

“And we, the FDA, said the drugs were safe.”

(Jon Rappoport is the author of three explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed, Exit From The Matrix, and Power Outside The Matrix).

The great big Autism obfuscation

by Jon Rappoport

“How is a self-contained world built? Well, you can take a major situation which has an obvious cause, and then relabel the situation with a new name and say the cause is unknown. Then you can claim you’re looking for the cause, and you can keep looking and stalling for 50 years.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport).

First of all, there is NO definitive evidence that autism is a specific condition with a single cause.

If you doubt this, look up the definition of autism in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and try to find a definitive lab test that leads to a diagnosis of autism. There is no such test.

That means there is no confirmed cause of autism. And THAT means there is no proof autism is a single and specific condition.

Like other so-called developmental disorders or neurological disorders, autism is a collection of behaviors and symptoms, clustered together by committees of psychiatrists.

Basically, what is being called autism is DAMAGE. Various forms of neurological damage.

This means the cause(s) could be coming from a variety of places.

For example, vaccines can and do cause damage.

Neurological damage, brain damage.

Parents of damaged children know this. There were there. They saw their children before vaccination and after vaccination.

Everything else claimed about these children is diversion. High-class sophisticated deceptive diversion.

For example: shuffling various disease and disorder labels; studies claiming there is no link between vaccines and autism; the hoops the government makes parents jump through, in order to try to obtain financial compensation for their damaged children; the legal deal allowing vaccine manufacturers to avoid law suits; the invented cover stories claiming autism begins in utero or is a genetic disorder; the pretension that autism has even been defined—
All lies. All avoidances.

A child gets a vaccine. The child suffers brain damage. That happens.

That’s the truth which the government buries in a mountain of obfuscation.

In general, how much damage do vaccines cause every year in the US?

Unsurprisingly, there is no reliable count.

For a sane reference, see “In the Wake of Vaccines,” by Barbara Loe Fisher, founder of the private National Vaccine Information Center. Her article was published in the Sept./Oct. 2004 issue of Mothering Magazine.

Gathering information from several sources, Fisher makes a reasonable estimate of vaccine damage—actual figures are not available or carefully tracked or vetted. The system for reporting adverse effects is broken.

Fisher: “But how many children have [adverse] vaccine reactions every year? Is it really only one in 110,000 or one in a million who are left permanently disabled after vaccination? Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler observed in 1993 that less than 1 percent of doctors report adverse events following prescription drug use. [See DA Kessler, ‘Introducing MEDWatch,’ [JAMA, June 2, 1993: 2765-2768]”

“There have been estimates that perhaps less than 5 or 10 percent of doctors report hospitalizations, injuries, deaths, or other serious health problems following vaccination. The 1986 Vaccine Injury Act contained no legal sanctions for not reporting; doctors can refuse to report and suffer no consequences.”

“Even so, each year about 12,000 reports [of vaccine damage] are made to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System; parents as well as doctors can make those reports. [See RT Chen, B. Hibbs, ‘Vaccine safety,’ Pediatric Annals, July 1998: 445-458]”

“However, if that number represents only 10 percent of what is actually occurring, then the actual number may be 120,000 vaccine-adverse events [damage]. If doctors report vaccine reactions as infrequently as Dr. Kessler said they report prescription-drug reactions, and the number 12,000 is only 1 percent of the actual total, then the real number may be 1.2 million vaccine-adverse events annually.”

Then why does the government say, over and over, that vaccines are safe?

Because they want to lie.

What about all the studies that show this vaccine and that vaccine are safe?

The following quote will give you a clue. The writer is an insider’s insider, and a doctor. She’s scrutinized more published medical studies than all the “highly educated” science-blog writers in the world put together.

Dr. Marcia Angell, for 20 years, was the editor of the most prestigious medical journal in America.
On January 15, 2009, the NY Review of Books published Dr. Angell’s devastating assessment of medical literature:

“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.” (Marcia Angell, MD, “Drug Companies and Doctors: A story of Corruption.” NY Review of Books, Jan. 15, 2009.)

Vaccine damage is being called autism.

It diverts attention from the grave harm vaccines are causing.

Autism is essentially any kind of severe neurological damage a child suffers from unknown causes.
When the cause is obvious and known—as in the case of vaccines—the names and labels are changed:
To protect the guilty.

(Jon Rappoport is Tthe author of three explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed, Exit From The Matrix, and Power Outside The Matrix).