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Nicaraguan breaks ground with new salsa music video in the SF Bay Area

por Marvin Ramírez

Nicaraguan artist Roger ‘Danilo’ Pérez Paiz has just produced this music video, which in addition to being an excellent piece of Latin music and being accompanied by really professional musicians, is really a historical work, by including many of the artists – some still Live and others already dead – who circled with him in the spread of salsa music in the early 70s, when it was still in diapers in this part of USA.

“I wrote this song as a tribute to the musicians in the early days of the San Francisco Bay Area salsa in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Some of these talented musicians were my partners and some were my mentors, but all They were part of my growth and maturation as a percussionist, singer, composer and band director of my own salsa band, Universal Orchestra.”

The musical trajectory that Danilo navigated through to create his own music, which goes back to the beginning of the Salsa boom in the Bay Area, is worthy of being considered an excellent musical work both for those who lived that boom Salsero, as well as for those who were not yet born and who now make it part of their culture.

He has performed with legends such as Tito Puente, Chucho Valdez, Ray Barretto, Rubén Blades, and Poncho Sánchez.

Congratulations to Danilo for such an excellent job from Marvin Ramírez, editor of El Reportero, the bilingual newspaper in SF.

To all my Facebook friends I ask you to pay tribute to this great musician who was formed by himself, by giving him a great LIKE in Facebook and sharing it with all you friends in social media.

But most importantly is that you should buy his song to help him compensate the expenses that generated the production.

Buy here it:  https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/danilopaiz

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Leonardo Di Caprio to play Da Vinci in Biopic, says Paramount

by the El Reportero’s news services

Paramount Pictures confirmed that actor Leonardo Di Caprio will be the star of a new film about the life of Italian genius Leonardo Da Vinci, after winning the rights to the novel, said today the media.

The film will be adapted for the screen from the biography on painter, engineer, architect, sculptor and writer Da Vinci, written by US novelist Walter Isaacson, famous for his books on the life of Benjamin Franklin and other politicians.

Paramount Pictures beat out Universal Pictures in the bidding for the rights to the novel, which will be launched October 17th, while the film is already envisaged as another opportunity for Di Caprio to showcase his skills as actor playing Da Vinci.

The film about Da Vinci would be the third adaptation to the screen of a book by Isaacson, the first one was his biography on Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, and the second one was based on Albert Einstein, on the TV series Genius.

The beneficiaries of three special prizes of “Premios Tu Mundo” were announced

Miguel Bosé, Olga Tañón and María Celeste Arrarás will be honored during the “Tu Mundo Awards”.

Telemundo announced the beneficiaries of three special prizes that will be delivered during the 6th annual version of “Premios Tu Mundo”. The great tropical singer Olga Tañón will be honored with the Legacy Jenni Rivera, while the famous television presenter María Celeste Arrarás will be awarded the Star of Your World award, and the iconic singer Miguel Bosé will be distinguished with the prize The Power in You.

Tropical music singer Olga Tañón will receive the Legacy Jenni Rivera Award.

Miguel Bosé is the Founder and Honorary President of the Indigenous Heritage Foundation MX, which has launched 10 homes for indigenous children, offering a school education as well as extracurricular activities and workshops that strengthen their life skills.

This year, María Celeste Arrarás will be awarded the “Estrella de Tu Mundo” award to celebrate her 15 years as host of the successful news magazine, Al Rojo Vivo con María Celeste. Celeste Arrarás, an Emmy-winning journalist and investigative reporter, is one of the most prolific news personalities on Spanish-language television.

Bolivia Hosts Puka Ñawi International Human Rights Film Festival

The 13th Puka Ñawi International Human Rights Film Festival is beginning on Aug. 14 in the Bolivian city of Sucre with the screening of the film La mujer del animal (The Animal’s Wife) by Colombian director Víctor Gaviria.

The opening of the event, to be run until Aug. 20, will feature the presence of Gaviria to bring viewers closer to the plot of the film, focused on Amparo, who after fleeing a convent will have to face the roughness of men.

The feature films ‘Alas de mar’ (Ocean Wings), by Chilean Hans Mulchi; ‘Semillas de Guamuchil’ (Guamuchil Seeds) by Mexican Carolina Corral and ‘Willakuyqunata Awaspa – Tejiendo relatos’ (Willakuyqunata Awaspa – Weaving Stories), by Bolivian Clara Calvet, were screened Aug. 14.

Based in the city of Sucre, Chuquisaca department, the festival brings together professionals of the seventh art from Ecuador, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Guatemala, Spain, United States, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Sweden, Greece and the host country.

Dedicated to Colombia in this edition, the festival seeks to encourage the production of works related to human rights.

Founded in the 80s of last century, the film event has its genesis in the communicative processes of Quechua communities in the Bolivian departments of Chuquisaca and Potosi.

Under the premise of strengthening the culture of democracy and peace through films, the Puka Ñawi festival promotes intercultural dialogue between Bolivia and other Latin American countries.

They got hurt at work and then they got deported

How insurance companies use a Florida law to get undocumented immigrants arrested and deported when they get injured on the job — and what it means in Trump’s America

by Michael Grabell, ProPublica, and Howard Berkes, NPR

At age 31, Nixon Arias cut a profile similar to many unauthorized immigrants in the United States. A native of Honduras, he’d been in the country for more than a decade and had worked off and on for a landscaping company for nine years. The money he earned went to building a future for his family in Pensacola, Florida. His Facebook page was filled with photos of fishing and other moments with his three boys, ages 3, 7 and 8.

But in November 2013, that life began to unravel.

The previous year, Arias had been mowing the median of Highway 59 just over the Alabama line when his riding lawnmower hit a hole, throwing him into the air. He slammed back in his seat, landing hard on his lower back.

Arias received pain medication, physical therapy and steroid injections through his employer’s workers’ compensation insurance. But the pain in his back made even walking or sitting a struggle. So his doctor recommended an expensive surgery to implant a device that sends electrical pulses to the spinal cord to relieve chronic pain. Six days after that appointment, the insurance company suddenly discovered that Arias had been using a deceased man’s Social Security number and rejected not only the surgery, but all of his past and future care.

Desperate, Arias hired an attorney to help him pursue the injury benefits that Florida law says all employees, including unauthorized immigrants, are entitled to receive. Then one morning after he dropped two of his boys off at school, Arias was pulled over and arrested, while his toddler watched from his car seat.

Arias was charged with using a false Social Security number to get a job and to file for workers’ comp. The state insurance fraud unit had been tipped off by a private investigator hired by his employer’s insurance company.

With his back still in pain from three herniated or damaged discs, Arias spent a year and a half in jail and immigration detention before he was deported.

One of SouthEast’s first cases involved a hotel housekeeper at the Comfort Suites in Vero Beach. Yuliana Rocha Zamarripa was cleaning a hotel room in 2010 when she slipped on a bathroom floor and slammed her knee on the bathtub, leaving her with pain and swelling so severe she was unable to walk.

Lion sent her to a doctor, but quickly denied her claim based on a false Social Security number.

Rocha’s mother had brought her to the United States from Mexico when she was 13, and when she turned 17, her father bought her the fake ID so she could work.

With few options, Rocha, now 32, settled her workers’ comp case for less than $6,000 plus attorney fees. But she never got the medical care she needed. The week before she was to receive the check, she was arrested while making breakfast for her 4-year-old son.

Rocha spent the next year cycling through jail and immigration detention, separated from her three children. She couldn’t sleep, worrying what would happen to them if she were deported.

“I said the Lord’s Prayer all the time, and I would end by asking, ‘God, give me a chance to return to my children. Don’t let anything bad happen to them,’” she said. “I had a feeling that something was not right.”

Rocha’s instincts were correct. While she was in jail, the father of her children started sexually assaulting their 10-year-old daughter, according to his arrest warrant. “I was left shattered,” Rocha said tearfully, “because I didn’t know what was happening.”

With the help of an attorney, Rocha pleaded to a lesser charge — “perjury not in an official proceeding” — and was finally released. Because of what happened to Rocha’s daughter, the attorney was able to get Rocha’s deportation canceled and help her obtain a green card.

Rocha eventually received her settlement but had to spend all of it securing her release and dealing with immigration. She now walks with a limp because her injury didn’t heal correctly.

“I think it’s an injustice what happened to me,” she said. “All because I fell, I slipped.”

However people feel about immigration, judges and lawmakers nationwide have long acknowledged that the employment of unauthorized workers is a reality of the American economy. From nailing shingles on roofs to cleaning hotel rooms, some 8 million immigrants work with false or no papers nationwide, and studies show they’re more likely to get hurt or killed on the job than other workers. So over the years, nearly all 50 states, including Florida, have given these workers the right to receive workers’ comp.

But in 2003, Florida’s lawmakers added a catch, making it a crime to file a workers’ comp claim using false identification. Since then, insurers have avoided paying for injured immigrant workers’ lost wages and medical care by repeatedly turning them in to the state.

Workers like Arias have been charged with felony workers’ comp fraud even though their injuries are real and happened on the job. And in a challenging twist of logic, immigrants can be charged with workers’ comp fraud even if they’ve never been injured or filed a claim because legislators also made it illegal to use a fake ID to get a job. In many cases, the state’s insurance fraud unit has conducted unusual sweeps of worksites, arresting a dozen employees for workers’ comp fraud after merely checking their Social Security numbers.
What’s quietly been happening to workers in Florida, unnoticed even by immigrant advocates, could be a harbinger of the future as immigration enforcement expands under President Donald Trump.

One of Trump’s first executive orders broadened Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s priorities to include not just those convicted of or charged with a crime, but any immigrant suspected of one. The order also targets anyone who has “engaged in fraud or willful misrepresentation in connection with any official matter or application before a governmental agency.” That language could sweep in countless injured unauthorized workers because state workers’ comp bureaus and medical facilities typically request Social Security numbers as part of the claims process.

(This story was shorten to fit space).

Trade wars lead to world wars

History shows there is a repeating, almost natural progression from currency wars to trade wars to shooting wars

by Paul Goncharoff
Analysis

What does the future hold?

For those that dig into and analyze the history of humankind there has been a repeating, almost natural progression from currency wars to trade wars to shooting wars. In basic terms, the yeast that gives rise to currency wars are: too much debt and too little growth. Hence, countries steal growth from trading partners by cheapening their currencies to promote exports and create export-related jobs. Short-term relief at best as in every case eventually currency balances reassert, it is therefore a zero-sum exercise.

This no-win situation eventually becomes obvious to those countries involved and they move on to trade wars or in today’s popular parlance – sanctions. This is expressed through punishing tariffs, export subsidies and nontariff impediments to free trade. The same dynamics apply as in currency wars and both sides null themselves out of play. Meanwhile the difficulties that started these chain of events has not gone away: too much debt and too little growth never goes away by avoiding the hard nationally responsible internal fixes needed – politically painful as they might be.

After the Crimean’s voted to again reunify with Russia, President Obama imposed economic sanctions on Russia’s major banks and corporations, and certain political figures and oligarchs. The EU joined these sanctions. Russia responded by imposing its own sanctions on Europe and the U.S., by banning certain imports. These and the several sanctions that were added on have been a failure. They did not succeed in changing Russian beliefs. They have had no impact on forcing any imposed changes on Russian national interests. This failure was as predictable as the spin of the earth.

The benefits to Europe by removing sanctions would help prop up and ensure the beginnings of growth noticed among a few of the member nations.

Russia’s reserves nosedived beginning in mid-2014 due to the global collapse of oil prices, which fell from $100 per barrel to $24 per barrel by 2016, together with the onset of imposed sanctions. The Russian reserve position fell to a low of $350 billion by mid-2015, about where they were at the depths of the 2008 crisis.

When U.S.-led sanctions forbade Russian multinationals, such as Gazprom and Rosneft, from refinancing in 2015 any dollar- and euro-denominated debt in western capital markets, those companies turned to the Russian Central Bank. They beseeched the head of the CB Ms. Nabiullina to permit them to dip into Russia’s remaining hard currency reserves to pay off maturing corporate debt.

She took her role seriously, and in the national interest, and for the most part, she refused these requests, insisting that Russian reserves were for the benefit of the Russian people and the Russian economy and were not a slush fund for corporations or oligarchs.

By doing her job a-politically, she forced the Russian energy companies to make alternative arrangements including equity sales, joint ventures, and yuan loans from China to pay their bills. As a result, Russia’s credit was not impaired and its reserve position has gradually recovered. The strong position taken by the head of Russia’s Central Bank was not the response planned for or expected by the host of prestigious ‘expert’ think tanks between Washington and Brussels. Perhaps because it beggars belief that in this day and age any Central Bank could take the firm and necessary common sense steps that serve their citizens interests.

A further side to Russia’s reserve management under Nabiullina was evident during the panic days of the oil-related drawdown during mid-2015. The Central Bank of Russia never sold its gold. In fact, it continued to add to its gold reserves.

It is worthwhile having a glance at gold reserves as a percentage of GDP. In short let us use GDP as a measure for the economy, and gold as a measure for real money, and then the gold-to-GDP ratio tells us how much real money backs the real economy. This is the opposite of heightened leverage through increased government debt, which has become the new normal in our ‘developed’ world.

The ratio for United States weighs in at 1.8 percent. China is estimated by some to be at 2.2 percent. The EU shows 3.6 percent which is double that of the US. Russia comes in at an audited 5.6 percent (and growing), which is over three times the United States ratio.

Russia’s solid gold position combined with today’s low external debt puts Russia in a comparatively strong position to weather economic distress without default, or to face unknown geopolitical black swan events in the future.

This chain of escalation only solidifies positions if nobody believes in common sense, tensions increase, rival blocs and alliances based on perceived greater self-interests are formed. Shooting wars then start in an attempt to terminate outstanding debt and re-balance the books unilaterally. The direct and collateral damage is always far worse that fixing internal problems at the outset.

What have we seen in the past few years that looks fishy? In 2010, the new phase of this currency war began with efforts by the Obama administration to promote U.S. growth through a weak dollar. By 2011, the U.S. dollar reached an all-time low on the Fed’s broad real index. Countries understandably responded, and the period of the “cheap dollar” was replaced by “cheap euro” and “cheap yuan”. One more time currency wars proved themselves a zero-sum-game by 2012.

Now the trade wars with sanctions have begun in 2014. This past July 2017 the U.S. Congress passed one of the toughest veto-immune economic sanctions bills ever and sent it to President Trump for his now token signature. The new sanctions law is directed against North Korea, Iran, and Russia.

This new law says that U.S. companies cannot participate in any Russian project in oil and gas exploration in the Arctic. It restricts even foreign companies that do business with Russia in Arctic exploration by banning them from U.S. markets and U.S. contracts. This approach places diplomacy on a shelf as it takes on the form of an existential threat to Russia. This not only is a threat to Russia’s national interests, but also threatens many countries that comprise the EU by choking off an independently reliable source of energy to Europe. I have doubts that even previously staunch trading partners will stand idly by as the US one-sidedly dismantles what remain of bilateral trading relations. Retaliation is to be expected. We are now in a no holds barred trade war. What can we expect to follow?

Despite what is tensioning between the US and Russia, or between the US and Iran, the sharp end of the stick today is between the US and North Korea with escalating threats being exchanged on an almost daily basis. This has moved significantly farther than any currency or trade war and seems likely to end badly. In an editorial this past Aug. 11, China’s Global Times newspaper warned that China won’t come to North Korea’s aid if it launches missiles threatening U.S. soil and there is retaliation — but that China would intervene if Washington strikes first. “China should also make clear that if North Korea launches missiles that threaten U.S. soil first and the U.S. retaliates, China will stay neutral,” furthermore “If the U.S. and South Korea carry out strikes and try to overthrow the North Korean regime and change the political pattern of the Korean Peninsula, China will prevent them from doing so.”

It would seem that we’re all heading to experience the historical third stage, maybe assisted by Ukrainian rocket engines to Pyongyang. What irony. Not a happy prospect. (by Russian Insider).

Mayors, local officials ask Trump to defend DACA

Editor’s Note: San Francisco is part of a coalition that signed onto a letter to President Trump, asking him to defend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program from a potential court challenge led by Texas.

by Rafael Bernal,
The Hill

WASHINGTON – Over 100 mayors and county officials from 35 states issued a letter today to President Trump calling on him to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program until a legislative solution is enacted for all undocumented immigrant youth, otherwise referred to as Dreamers. Our cities have embraced the DACA program, and DACA has in turn provided thousands of our residents with the opportunity to pursue higher education, career goals, and give back to the country they call home. Cities and counties have supported DACA applicants and recipients through investments in legal services, outreach efforts to eligible youth, and easing access to school records and public documents for prospective applicants. These contributions have helped nearly 800,000 individuals obtain DACA and give back to their communities:

• DACA recipients serve our localities in all kinds of critical roles—including medical professionals, teachers, and even municipal employees.  

• 1.3 million young undocumented immigrants enrolled or immediately eligible for DACA contribute an estimated $2 billion a year in state and local taxes.

• This includes personal income, property, and sales and excise taxes. DACA-eligible individuals pay on average 8.9 percent of their income in state and local taxes.

The mayors who have signed on to today’s letter to the President are part of Cities for Action, a coalition of over 150 cities and counties, representing over 55 million residents, leading on immigration action through federal advocacy and local programs.

A group of mayors and county officials from around the country wrote to President Trump Tuesday, asking him to defend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program from a potential court challenge led by Texas.

Under DACA, nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children received work permits and deferral from deportation.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is leading a group of 10 states that have threatened to challenge the program in court unless the Trump administration rescinds it by Sept. 5.

Cities for Action — a coalition of counties and cities representing more than 55 million residents — asked Trump in the letter to defend the program against the challenge.

Neither the White House nor the Justice Department have said whether the administration will defend the program if Paxton follows through on his threat.

In their letter, the coalition touted the economic benefits of the program and the importance of integrating recipients of DACA into the nation.

“You have singular power and influence to shape this moment in American history, and ‘show great heart’ — as well as pragmatism and economic sense — in your decision about how to protect our young, undocumented immigrants who have relied on the U.S. government’s word for security and stability,” read the letter to Trump.

Trump has said he supports DACA recipients but hasn’t said whether he believes in the legality of the program. In February, he said he would “show great heart” in finding a permanent solution for the group’s migratory status.

Although different bills have been presented in Congress that would make permanent the benefits awarded to DACA recipients, the White House has refused to support any of those initiatives.

Still, the co-signers of the letter appealed to Trump’s sense of pragmatism.

This article was originally published in The Hill. Follow the conversation at #DefendDACA.

Boxing Schedule – The Gentlemen’s Sports

AUGUST 4, 2017
Fantasy Springs, Indio, CA, USA (ESPN / ESPN Deportes)
Mauricio Herrera vs. Jesus Soto Karass
Vyacheslav Shabranskyy vs. Todd May
Jonathan Navarro vs. Angel Sarinana
MGM Grand, Detroit, MI, USA (Showtime)
Nikki Adler vs. Claressa Shields
Vladimir Tikhonov vs. Jesse Hernandez
James Smith vs. Yaqub Kareem
Domonique Dolton vs. Antonio Fernandez
Antonio Urista vs. Serdar Hudayberdiyev
Jarico O’Quinn vs. Jose Elizondo
Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sergio Lopez vs. Javier Maciel
Junior Zarate vs. Diego Liriano
AUGUST 5, 2017
Nokia, Los Angeles, CA, USA (ESPN / BoxNation)
Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Miguel Marriaga
Raymundo Beltran vs. Bryan Vasquez
Ivan Montero vs. Esquiva Falcao
Erick De Leon vs. Adones Aguelo
Arnold Barboza Jr vs. Jonathan Chicas
Artemio Reyes vs. Steve Marquez
Jose Marrufo vs. Maxim Dadashev
Andy Vences vs. TBA
Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina (TyC)
Marcelo Caceres vs. Guillermo Andino
Claridge Hotel, Atlantic City, NJ, USA
Derrick Webster vs. Lamar Harris
Zhilei Zhang vs. Nick Guivas
AUGUST 10, 2017
Belasco Theater, Los Angeles, CA, USA (Estrella)
Charles Huerta vs. Miguel A. Gonzalez
Christian Gonzalez vs. Daniel Perales
AUGUST 11, 2017
Cordoba, Argentina (TyC / VTV)
Caril Herrera vs. Julio Escudero
Jose Romero vs. Roberto Ogas
New York, USA (CBSSN)
“Real Deal Championship Boxing”
AUGUST 12, 2017
Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico (beIN / Azteca)
Omar Chavez vs. Roberto Garcia
AUGUST 15, 2017
Shimazu, Kyoto, Japan (beIN)
Shinsuke Yamanaka vs. Luis Nery

Silicon Valley’s Premier Annual Music San José Festival 2017

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

San Jose Jazz Summer Fest returns for its 28th festival season from Friday, August 11 – Sunday, August 13 in and around Plaza de César Chavez Park in downtown San Jose, Calif.

A showcase for jazz and related genres, SJZ Summer Fest is also nationally recognized as one of the biggest Latin festivals in the country. A standout summer destination for music lovers, concert-goers and families alike, the three-day event features 120+ performances on 10 stages, attracting tens of thousands of visitors to downtown throughout the weekend.

The 28th Annual San Jose Jazz Summer Fest 2017 features an acclaimed roster of artists from around the world as well as homegrown Bay Area talent.

San Jose Jazz announces today its second round of confirmed artists: Óscar Hernández and Alma Libre; California and Montreal Guitar Trios; Peter Cincotti; Dayme Arocena; Orgone; Anton Schwartz Sextet; Eddie Henderson Quartet; Kalil Wilson With Love; Naughty Professor; Allan Harris Quartet; Hip Bone Big Band with Michael Davis; Zydeco Flames; Claudia Villela Quintet; Jackie Gage; The Sons Of The Soul Revivers; JC Smith Band; Aaron Lington Sextet; Conjunto Karabali; Juan Pollo Raffo; A.C. Myles; Big Sandy and His Fly Rite Boys; CABANIJAZZ Project; Carlitos Medrano; The Bay Area Salsa All-Stars featuring Jimmy Bosch; Lily Hernández Orchestra featuring Calixto Oviedo; and additional artists to be announced!

Free Afro Solo Concert-Yerba Buena Gardens Festival

The event is in conjunction with the new release of David Hardiman’s CD, Music Around the World, Volume 2.  

David Hardiman’s Music Around the World, Vol. 2 – Various Artists. Listen @cdbaby  At The Esplanade, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Mission St. between 3rd & 4th Sts., San Francisco, Aug. 5, Sat. 1-3 p.m. Info: (415 543-1718). 

Come enjoy our live concert outdoors featuring: Dr. David Hardiman’s, Sr. Quintet And Charles Hamilton’s Quintet!

Life Steps Foundation Social Dynamics 7K Fun Run!

Life Steps Foundation Social Dynamics is proud to announce its 2nd annual 7K Fun Run! presented this year in memory of Kevin Hendrickson, a friend and client who was well-loved by all at Social Dynamics.

• Runners can sign up by visiting www.lifesteps.org. Entry is $40/participant.
All funds will support programs and services for developmentally disabled individuals served by Life Steps Foundation Social Dynamics.

On Sept. 2, 2017, from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. At Lake Merced, San Francisco (the starting line will be between Lake Merced Boulevard & Sunset Boulevard)
*Parking is available.

SFFILM And SFMOMA announce third season of Modern Cinema

SFFILM and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announce the third season of Modern Cinema, the collaborative film series that explores the dynamic relationships between the past and present of cinema as one of the modern era’s essential art forms.

Season three, entitled Johnnie To: Cops and Robbers, started July 20, and is dedicated to the cross-genre work of Hong Kong master Johnnie To and its impact on world cinema, particularly the modern crime film. Johnnie To will attend the final weekend of the program, Aug. 3–6. All screenings and talks take place in the Phyllis Wattis Theater at SFMOMA. www.sfmoma.org.

New Playa del Carmen Museum dedicated to Kahlo

by the El Reportero’s news services

Visitors in the Caribbean resort of Playa del Carmen in the Yucatán Peninsula can add a new cultural experience to the attractions the town has to offer.

The Frida Kahlo Museum Riviera Maya, arguably the first cultural offering to open its doors on Playa’s iconic 5th Avenue, is dedicated to one of the most well-known artists Mexico has given to the world.

The museum represents an investment of 20 million pesos (US $1.1 million), and its promoters expect to receive some 1,200 visitors per day.

The people are certainly there: Playa del Carmen’s 5th Avenue welcomes an estimated 39,000 people every day, some of whom have shown interest in cultural alternatives, according to Abraham Mendoza, director of cultural projects of the Frida Kahlo Arts and Culture Foundation.

Local weather conditions have made it impossible for the museum to have original paintings but that might change in the future.

Instead, the Frida Kahlo Museum Riviera Maya will display original photos and authorized reproductions of Kahlo’s masterpieces, as well as technological resources.

Mendoza told the newspaper Milenio that it will take visitors 55 minutes to walk through the exhibits, “getting close to the life of the artist through a sensorial experience.”

Ex-The Beatles member Ringo Starr launches first single of new album

British musician and songwriter Ringo Starr launched today ‘’We’’re on the road again,’’ the first single from his new album ‘’Give more love’’, which will be released on Sept. 15.

For posting the song on YouTube’s Vevo channel, Starr was accompanied by bassist and also ex member of The Beatles Paul McCartney as well as guitar players Joe Walsh, from The Eagles, as well as Edgar Winter and Steve Lukather, from Toto and also co-author of the song.

For the album, which will be launched in digital format, CD and vinyl, Starr will also have the cooperation of musicians Peter Frampton, Richard Marx, Glen Ballard, Dave Stewart, Don Was and Timothy B. Schmit.

This is Starr’s first record since 2015, when he launched ‘Postcards from Paradise’, recorded in the studio of his own house in Los Angeles.

Starr, also actor, began his solo career after the disintegration of The Beatles in 1989, when he founded Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band, a project with which he recorded eight albums and still makes tours.

La Paz Book Fair to pay homage to Bob Dylan

Only just two days to open, the 22nd La Paz International Book Fair will dedicate a space to homege US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan´s, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, the organizers announced today.

Scheduled from Aug. 2 through 13 at the Chuquiago Marka Exhibition Site, the event will host critic Sergio Calero´s lecture on Bob Dylan, regarded as one of the most influential US figures for the popular music of the 20th century and early XXI.

This tribute to the 12-Grammy winner – including a radio session and is also called Todo Dylan – is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 12, local media reported.

During his prolific musical career, the singer and poet has won several awards, including one awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (The Oscar) and another by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Golden Globe).

The 22nd La Paz International Book Fair will be have the possibility to gather some twenty Latin American writers, among them the Mexican author Carlos Cuauhtemoc Sánchez, whose books lead the lists of bestsellers in the region.

Peruvian Carlos Enrique Freyre and Gabriela Wiener, Colombian Chronicler Alberto Salcedo, considered one of the best narrators in Latin America, will also attend such an important event in La Paz, Bolivia.

Argentines Bob Chow, Luciano Saracino and Paloma Vidal, as well as Brazilians Alexandre Gomes, Andre Okuma and Marcelino Freire, among others, will also have the chance of sharing with national authors during the event.

Hillary’s new book: “It’s never my fault”

by Jon Rappoport

This is an antidote to Hillary’s new book, titled, “What Happened,” which I would sub-title, Why Was I So Clueless? The book purports to explain her loss in the 2016 election.

What would Hillary think if she could think?

First of all, she would think about the team trying to get her elected and the problems they faced: they had a candidate who basically had no platform, no cogent ideas, only a slim file of vapid generalities. She couldn’t deliver a coherent speech.

The team had to devise a way to keep her out of the spotlight on the campaign trail. This, the last time I looked, is not a winning strategy.
“How can we minimize her appearances?”

Hillary would think about that.

She would think about why sexism (her favorite), Putin, Comey, WikiLeaks, and “fake news” don’t explain her loss. How they didn’t add up to an Electoral College defeat.

She would think about her supporters whining, “But she won the popular vote.” That complaint only highlights the failure of her team to realize the Electoral College system (which any fifth-grader can understand) was the umbrella under which the election was actually conducted.

She would think about why serving as a senator and secretary of state doesn’t automatically entitle her to the job of president.

She would think about her past crimes—there is not enough time or room to detail them here.

She would think about why Americans who have lost their jobs didn’t trust her to bring those jobs back.

She would think about Trump and his resonating messages—regardless of whether Trump intends to deliver on those messages.

She would think about the Left’s political correctness, and all the people who hate it.

She would think about college students who defected from her camp to support an old radical socialist (who owns three homes and has pocketed close to a million dollars from his latest book about income inequality).

She would think about the distance between her vague promises and the interests of non-white voters.

She would think about the numbers of Americans who don’t embrace the growing Welfare State and don’t want to pay taxes to support it.

She would think about what many Americans really think about open borders and unchecked immigration.

She would think about the emotional impact of promoting Globalism and an “interdependent world” (it takes a village) vs. promoting Nationalism.
She would think about the dead rotting core of the Democratic Party.

She would think about effect of the previous president, Barack Obama, harping on racism whenever he could.

She would think about her history of support for a federally dictated national health insurance plan.

She would think about her duplicitous husband, with whom she is forever linked.

She would think about her husband’s faded ability to mobilize Americans on any political issue whatsoever.

She would think about (cough, cough, stumble, stumble) her health issues.

She would think about her failure to project an aura of strength.

She would think about the wisdom of trying to assume the mantle of president before the election had taken place.

She would think about her decades-long transparent pursuit of power for its own sake.

She would think about her own team lying to her about her “positive impact” on the public during the campaign. She would think about why they had to lie, given her ironclad delusions about her own “deserved status.”

She would think about the rebound effect of Hollywood sycophants piling on in her favor.

She would think about these things if she could.

She can’t, because then she would understand.

She would understand why she lost, and why she would most definitely lose a race for dogcatcher.

She would understand her long history of pretending to accrue prestige, based on nothing.

She would understand that her own Party has been humoring her for decades and faking loyalty where none existed.

She would understand that, during the campaign, the news networks, eternally in need of ratings, would cover Donald Trump every day, because she, Hillary, was a ratings washout, and he was a rating magnet.

This last factor is the bitterest pill of all.

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

Nikki Haley, the US ambassador at the UN is not correct about Venezuela

Let me tell you something:

UN Ambassador Nikki Haley said on Sunday July 30 – after the election to elect the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly, that “Maduro’s false election is another step towards dictatorship. We will not accept an illegitimate government. The Venezuelan people and democracy will prevail. “ President Trump then imposed economic sanctions against Maduro and his administration.
With a new constituent assembly, the government will have the power to rewrite the Venezuelan constitution, and that is what concerns the opposition allied to Washington.

One does not have to be a socialist to express an opinion on a system that calls itself socialist. I am not a socialist, I do not sympathize with socialism, because I know that it is a system of control over the people and the economy by a materialistic state corporation that suppresses civil liberties.

However, the case of Venezuela, and after sharing so many postings on Facebook in favor of the Venezuelan opposition, I find that there is another reality that perhaps many ignore: what is really at stake in this Bolivarian homeland is its sovereignty of oil, and not the beautiful faces of its Miss Universes.

What can it matter to Washington if democracy is not perfect or if there is no democracy in Venezuela or in another country?

Is it not from the White House that orders are given to bomb sovereign nations and assassinate their leaders when they do not obey Pentagon orders – on behalf of the oil cartels?
Just look at some Arab countries that the US. supports, where state crimes leave much to say. Where the rights of women or the beheadings of their critics matter don’t matter.

However, the US, instead of seeking a change of government in those countries, it give them more weapons, because US companies control the market of their oil.

There are rumors that the heat is intensifying towards an intervention and that a coup d’stat could be ahead in that Caribbean nation.

And it is not that Maduro is a saint, but I am coming to the conclusion that if he releases the reins of power, Venezuela will suffer like Mexico, where oil is no longer Mexican and now they have to buy gas from the US. I think that should not happen to Venezuela.

The best thing would be for both sides to sit down to negotiate – without foreign intervention – and to begin with Maduro’s government freeing the dollar market for the economy to return to its previous course. But they also must endorse a constitutional agreement that Venezuela’s oil will NEVER STOP BEING VENEZUELAN PATRIMONY – no matter what happens, whoever governs, and that no constitution be able to accept in its paper something that allows the oil to be controlled by foreign interests , including Wall Street, of course.

But I am sure that US oil interests do not want negotiation, but a civil war to breaks out and the economy to collapse so to make the country ungovernable – and then call the Marines to “protect American interests.” However, the latter is less likely, as the Venezuelan armed forces have not abandoned Maduro, yet.

The large Venezuelan oil fields are now the target of Washington, as in February 2003 PDVSA (Petróleos de Venezuela, SA) was was turned into a state-owned company. And it pains them that Venezuelan oil has gone out of their hands and that Venezuela (not long ago) has paid its debt. Or is it not true?

According to some calculations, Venezuelan reserves should last between 100 and 150 years under conditions of intense exploitation.

It is said that the payment of the debt of $ 2.5 billion and the oil downturn have been the cause of scarcity, as the government has been forced to maintain a cut in imports of basic goods despite the country’s sharp three years recession.

And I do not doubt that the violence and its cause have been mostly ingenious. And if you doubt it, do some investigative work on the internet about how and what governments the CIA has overthrown worldwide. I have done it, and that is why I have no doubt that this is what is happening in Venezuela.

There has been repression, but what government does not use force when the protests reach such a point of wanting to collapse the government? Is not there in the US, or in Nicaragua or in Mexico while the traditional press is silent?

There have also been many errors and outrages on the part of the government, especially in the lack of mercantile freedom that has triggered inflation and scarcity, but behind it, I do not doubt that it is the petro-bankers who want chaos.

It does not make these special interests happy that an ‘underdeveloped’ country have so much economic power and that it cannot be controlled – by them.

Therefore, don’t go to fast into believing the traditional media, because they are following a script so that there is a war.

Do you remember William Randolph Hearst’s cryptic phrase?

Among Hearst’s employees was the famous illustrator Frederic Remington.

In 1897, Remington was very bored by the lack of something newsworthy in Cuba and telegraphed to Hearst, “Everything is quiet, there are no problems here, there will be no war, I want to return.”

In response to Remington’s message, Hearst replied, “Please stay. Provide the photos and I will provide the war.“

Less than three weeks later, the American ship USS Maine exploded in the port of Havana. The cause of the explosion that claimed 274 lives remains a mystery.

Whatever its real cause, Hearst determined that the sinking of Maine was the result of Spanish betrayal and his newspaper vigorously published stories that helped create and nurture American anti-Spanish sentiment.

Within three months, the United States was at war with Spain in what became known as the US-Spanish war.

Never before has the media been shown to have such immediate and far-reaching effects.

I leave this link with an article (in English) well analyzed about the Venezuelan controversy.

Venezuela: Reactionary Coup in the Making, Media Disinformation, The Attitude of the Left

– Vale, Marvin Ramírez

Can’t sleep? 5 simple ways to help you beat insomia

by Dr. Serge Gregoire

Are you like thousands of people who can’t sleep? Or do you seem to have trouble get a full night of restful sleep and you keep waking up in the middle of the night? Here are some simple tips and tricks to help you beat insomnia and get the sleep you have been missing (1, 2, 3).

Insomnia buster # 1: creating the right atmosphere

Being comfortable and free of distractions is one of the first steps in securing a good night’s sleep. Keeping your sleeping area cool, dark, and as free from noise as possible will create an environment conducive to sleep. Do not fall asleep with the television or radio on either as it will only distract you and will likely wake you during the night.

Insomnia buster # 2: avoid stimulates before bed

Many people know that drinking coffee before bed is a big no no; however, they over look the caffeine that can be found in other sources such as soda, some teas, and chocolate. Often these items are not only loaded with caffeine but contain tons of sugar as well. Avoid these items and instead substitute decaffeinated and low sugar alternatives.

Insomnia buster # 3: drink your tea

Some herbal teas, such as chamomile, can be a great addition to your night time routine. Chamomile is a natural way to help settle your nerves and to relax so that you can peacefully drift off to sleep. And if tea is not quite your thing, do not worry; they make great supplements that you can take to get the effects of chamomile for people who can’t sleep but do not like tea.

Insomnia buster # 4: aromatherapy

Aromatherapy is a great, natural way to help you beat those insomnia blues. Aromatherapy utilizes the scents of natural oils to help you achieve the desired effect. In this case, essential oils such as Lavender can help to relax and prepare you for sleep. And there are so many great ways to enjoy aromatherapy from bath oils in a nice soothing bath, or wonderful sleeping mist sprays that you can spray your sheets with before you go to bed that surrounds you with the calming scent to soothe you off to sleep. So if you can’t sleep, try one of these great aromatherapy products.

Insomnia Buster # 5: eat a balanced diet

It might surprise you, but what you eat might be one reason as to why you can’t sleep. A poor diet can lead to heart burn, indigestion, and a ton of other health problems that can be getting a good night’s sleep difficult. Eating a healthy, well-balanced diet will improve your over all health which can help to eliminate some of the pesky problems that keep you awake at night.

There are five very simple tricks that can help you sleep better. However, if you can’t sleep for prolonged periods of time or have other symptoms accompanying your restlessness, be sure to speak with your health care provider as these could be signs of a health problem or serious condition. And if you are on medication or are pregnant, be sure to consult your doctor before trying any herbal remedy as some, such as chamomile, may not be recommended. (Natural News).

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