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Culture and Arts Festival in the Oracle Arena

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

Come see Latin history through culture and arts at the Bay Area Latino Festival’s which mission is to showcase and highlight Latino artists and their contributions while stimulating, educating and nurturing the cultural life in the Bay Area primarily through the three areas of the arts: Visual Arts, Performing Arts and Literary Arts. This event provides exhibitions, educational demos, performances that support the arts and engage the diverse community that we live in.
Some of the organizations that will be part are The Mexican Museum, Latin American Media, MCCLA, UC Berkeley Latino Alumni Association, Chican@Latin@ Legacy Celebration, CandleLight Global America among many more. There will be activities for children.
Featuring Artists: Richard Bean & SAPO, Martha Soledad, Alma Latina, Ballet Tonalli de San Jose, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Mariachi, Visual Artist, Literary Artist and Hands on Art and more!
At the Oracle Arena East Side Club, on Sept. 12, 2015, from noon to 5 p.m.

Live in concert in the Mission Catalina Claro

Catalina Claro & Friends: Award winning pianist, composer, and singer, Catalina Claro returns to San Francisco for One Night Only!
Catalina Claro is a Chilean composer, arranger, pianist, guitarist, and singer. She is influenced by a diverse range of genres, from classical to boleros, from pop to flamenco.
At the Make Out Room, 3225 22nd St. @ Mission St, San Francisco, on Saturday, Sept. 19. Doors 6:30 p.m. Showtime 7 p.m.

A Poet’s Love – combining song, aerial dance and theatre
Zaccho Dance Theatre (ZDT) will premiere A Poet’s Love , a new work created by Zaccho’s Artistic Director Joanna Haigood and Brooklyn-based singer/actor José Joaquín García.
A Poet’s Love is a new creation based on the Dichterliebe song cycle from classical German composer Robert Schumann. A Poet’s Love takes the form of sixteen discrete vignettes, each one responsive to and deeply immersed in the musical and poetic context of a song in Dichterliebe.
The complete work – combining song, aerial dance and theatre – will be performed at Zaccho Studio in San Francisco and will feature members of ZDT’s performance ensemble as well as José Joaquín García, who will perform the songs accompanied by well-known Bay Area pianist Frederick Harris.
On Friday Oct. 2, 2015. Additional performances will occur Saturday, Oct. 3 at 8 p.m. and Sunday Oct. 4 at 7 p.m.
Tickets are $20 at the door, but seating is limited. To guarantee and pre-order tickets please visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2182219. Feel free to call us at 415.822.6744 or send an email to christopher@zaccho.org for more information.

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Latin Grammy nominees to be anounced in three weeks

por servicio de noticias de El Reportero

La Academia Latina de la Grabación anunciará el próximo septiembre 23 nominaciones a los Premios Grammy Latinos, informaron hoy los organizadores.
Vía  LatinGRAMMY.com’s el centro de actividad Social  latino en donde un grupo de artistas revelará ocho de las 48 categorías de los premios, que tendrá su gala el 19 de noviembre en Las Vegas, Estados Unidos.
Un día antes de la ceremonia se llevará a cabo un homenaje al cantante brasileño Roberto Carlos.
Considerado como uno de los principales representantes de la música popular brasileña, el reconocido cantante ha vendido en todo el mundo más de 120 millones de discos y la edición de 2015 le honrará como Persona del Año en la Gala de Grabación de la Academia Latina.
Los Grammy Latinos se establecieron en 1989 en los Estados Unidos con el fin de reconocer la excelencia artística y técnica de América en los records de música.
En años anteriores, el evento ha honrado a artistas como Christina Aguilera, Juanes, Miguel Bosé, Laura Pausini, Shakira, Rubén Blades, Juan Luis Guerra y Calle 13.

Bolivia participara en el Festival Latinoamericano de Video
Bolivia estará presente en la 22ª edición del Festival de Video Latinoamericano que se realizará en Rosario, Argentina, a partir del próximo 04 de septiembre, fue publicado hoy.
Un informe del Consulado de Bolivia en Rosario, indica que seis películas y jurados Bolivianos participarán en el evento.
El festival está organizado por el Centro Audiovisual Rosario (CAR).
Marcos Loayza, un cineasta boliviano conocido, será parte del jurado del evento, en el que más de 200 películas de todo el continente se exhibirán a partir del 3 de septiembre al 23.

Caricaturistas de 14 países comparten experiencias en México
Más de 60 caricaturistas de 14 países compartirán sus experiencias a partir de hoy y hasta el próximo sábado en el Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Políticas, Ilustración y Dibujo de la historieta (FiLo 2015).
Los debates, conferencias, talleres y panel de reflexión se llevará a cabo en tres lugares del centro histórico de esta ciudad: la ciudad de México y populares Museos de arte y de la Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana.
Caricaturistas de Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, Estados Unidos, Brasil, Chile, España, Francia, México, Nicaragua, Perú, Portugal y Venezuela participaran en este evento y alzaran sus voces a favor de la paz y contra la violencia, además de referirse a la globalización.
Para dicha reunión también asistirán  artistas nacionales e internacionales, entre los cuales esta Antonio Antunes, fundador de World Press Cartoon, de Portugal, y Jean Plantureux (Plantu), del diario francés Le Monde.

El actor Matt Damon critica discurso de Donald Trump “sobre los inmigrantes”
Actor estadounidense Matt Damon describió al discurso sobre los inmigrantes del candidato presidencial republicano Donald Trump como “xenófobo”, “repugnante” y “deshumanizante”, dieron a   conocer los medios de comunicación hoy.
Damon rechazó declaraciones de Trump, en el que llaman a los indocumentados mexicanos como “violadores” y “narcotraficantes”.
La estrella de Hollywood, que está casado con una mujer argentina, con quien tiene tres hijas, dijo que las palabras del candidato a la presidencia son ofensivas para todos los latinoamericanos.
Trump propuso deportar a millones de inmigrantes y discutió la posibilidad de construir un muro para separar a los Estados Unidos desde México.
Antonio Banderas, criticó a su posición racista e hizo una fuerte defensa de la cultura latinoamericana durante la gala de Platinum, celebrada en Marbella.

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Is Trump a stage prop to hand Hillary the election?

by Jon Rappoport

“In acting, sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” — George Burns
Like it or not, accept it or not, there is a code you have to crack, in order to understand big elections.
They’re fixed. And in this piece, I’m not talking about rigged voting machines. On psychological, mental, and spiritual levels, the fix is in, because of one overriding factor:
The voters are oh so sincere.
And they shouldn’t be. It’s killing them.
Yes, that’s right.
The media presentation called The Election is a straight con from the get-go. Anyone who is sucked into it is a rube, a yokel, a hick.
So the question about whether Donald Trump is running to suck votes away from other Republican candidates or win the nomination himself, in order to deliver the presidency to Hillary? That’s a non-starter.
Who cares? What are we talking about here?
What’s the alternative if Trump isn’t running? Jeb vs. Hillary in November? The Bush crime family versus the Clinton crime family? That would be the “good” election?
How many more of these hideous campaigns do we have to endure before people wake up to the con? A hundred? A thousand?
“This fall, it looks like Lizardi Venom and Scorpion Ooze are the two parties’ choices. It promises to be a tightly contested race. Mr. Venom, of course, is for a utopian social-justice meter installed in the brain of every citizen, while his opponent, Ms. Ooze, promises to place four million dollars in a special account for every person who claims he or she has been ‘injured, defamed, or insulted by the system’. Both candidates agree that sincere voters who care about the future of this great nation must come out to the polls on Election Day and make their voices heard…”
“But wait. Some billionaire cowboy with a very spotty past has entered the lists. He’s reckless. He’s all over the place. He’s insulting the sacred media stars. He’s ruining The Show. He’s making a mockery out of it. He’s torpedoing everybody. He’s scamming the scammers. He’s upsetting The Sincere Voters who believe in the system like babies believe in Mommy and Daddy. And some claim that—wait for it—the cowboy is there to deliver the election to Ms. Ooze instead of Mr. Venom. This is shocking, I tell you. Shocking. And there’s more. This cowboy has been charged with making promises he doesn’t intend to keep. My God. Has any candidate in recent memory done that? A revered critic for the New York Times, Calder A Hogsniffer, takes it a step further. Higsniffer proposes that the cowboy is, in fact, raising several legitimate issues, but by lending his name to them he is degrading those issues and postponing the day when they’ll be taken seriously by the electorate. Certainly, no presidential candidate has ever tried that before. Heavens no. This cowboy is, well, crashing the party and spoiling it for everybody.”
Yes, he is. It was serious and sober and on-track and oh-so-sincere before he came through the wall with his hair and his shit-eating grin and his guns blazing.
Before he showed up, we could attack Hillary and Jeb and argue about whether Rand (who’ll never make it) really has the right ideas, and we could argue about the niceties of Bernie’s version of socialism…and we could watch the whole election, as usual, go right down the toilet.
Then we would have fulfilled our duty to The Process and we could sit back and nod wisely. Yes.
But this slug Trump gets on television (which is of course the holy medium through which we understand the sacred sincere election process); Trump gets on television and seems to be assaulting television itself. And that’s going too far. That’s out of bounds. That’s putting an unharmonious disruption in The Field.
I mean, who knows? If he ever made it to the religious hush of the final debates, he might turn around and start lobbing grenades at the moderators, the high priests—Scott (“I’m doing brain surgery on you without anesthetic because I really want to”) Pelley; Lester (“I’ve been in a state of deep hypnosis since the early days of MKULTRA”) Holt; Wolf (“I made my reputation during the first war in the Persian Gulf because my name meshes nicely with the US bombing runs”) Blitzer.
Voters’ sincerity in this whole election story is a plague.
The voters believe in the media show. They believe in the major candidates. They believe campaign statements and promises and policy positions. They believe that stage magic is real and three-card monte on a streetcorner is an honest game.
The solution, of course, if it could be engineered, would be: stay home on Election Day.
That’s the sane course.
If, by some miracle, only 19 percent of eligible voters showed up at the polls, that would constitute a national vote of no-confidence. That would say: we don’t believe in this media-election-cartoon. We woke up. We saw the con and the shuck and the jive.
Washington DC would experience a psychotic break. It would unhinge.
The television networks would undergo collective cardiac arrest. Their produced series, called Election, bombed. It was a ratings disaster.
The plague of misplaced, puerile, glazed-over, low-IQ, idiots-delight sincerity would begin to cure itself.
But the likelihood of 80% of the voters staying home is 100000000000000 to 1. It’s too real an answer. It’s too effective. And it requires a depth of perception that bypasses thousands of propaganda terminals.
Major media in general, and television in particular, are set up to substitute for the eyes and ears and brains and minds of the populace. To the degree that Donald Trump can turn the game around and run for president against the media, he’s providing a public service, and I don’t care how many blanks he’s shooting when he says he stands for this and that.
(Jon Rappoport is the author of three explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed, Exit From The Matrix, and Power Outside The Matrix).

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There are five reasons that the mainstream media is worthless

FROM THE EDITOR

Dear readers,

Here’s a great article about the media, to be more specific, the mainstream media and who controls it and how it is controlled by the elite. It was authored, and first published, in the Washington Blog.

— The following is a collection of articles and videos exposing the reality of our media. A well organized system of propaganda and exploitation has been inflicted on the American population for nearly a century. We have lived our lives in an ocean of deception and we have been manipulated into supporting actions (like wars, including the ‘war on terror) and policies that were not in our best interest.
This ‘system’ of perception management is entrenched in all levels of ‘government’, news reporting, and entertainment. The goals are to a) keep us distracted b) keep us divided (especially conservatives and liberals – which were both contrived), and c) keep us obedient.
Question everything and share this REALITY with all of your friends, neighbors and family.

by the Washington Blog

Short synopsis
1. Self-Censorship by Journalists
Initially, there is tremendous self-censorship by journalists.
2. Censorship by Higher-Ups
If journalists do want to speak out about an issue, they also are subject to tremendous pressure by their editors or producers to kill the story.
In addition, the government has allowed tremendous consolidation in ownership of the airwaves during the past decade.
Dan Rather has slammed media consolidation:
Likening media consolidation to that of the banking industry, Rather claimed that “roughly 80 percent” of the media is controlled by no more than six, and possibly as few as four, corporations.
3. Drumming Up Support for War:
In addition, the owners of American media companies have long actively played a part in drumming up support for war.
It is painfully obvious that the large news outlets studiously avoided any real criticism of the government’s claims in the run up to the Iraq war.

It is painfully obvious that the large American media companies acted as lapdogs and stenographers for the government’s war agenda.
4. Access
Politico reveals:
For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, non-confrontational access to “those powerful few”: Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors…
The offer — which essentially turns a news organization into a facilitator for private lobbyist-official encounters — was a new sign of the lengths to which news organizations will go to find revenue at a time when most newspapers are struggling for survival.
5. Censorship by the Government:
Finally, as if the media’s own interest in promoting war is not strong enough, the government has exerted tremendous pressure on the media to report things a certain way. Indeed, at times the government has thrown media owners and reporters in jail if they’ve been too critical. The media companies have felt great pressure from the government to kill any real questioning of the endless wars.
For example, Dan Rather said, regarding American media, “What you have is a miniature version of what you have in totalitarian states.”
Tom Brokaw said “all wars are based on propaganda.
Indeed, in the final analysis, the main reason today that the media giants will not cover the real stories or question the government’s actions or policies in any meaningful way is that the American government and mainstream media been somewhat blended together.
[This ‘marriage’ is obvious when you look at the media coverage and acceptance of the Center for Disease Control propaganda regarding the H1N1 ‘pandemic’: CDC – Deceiving the Public]
This is an expose on how much control of our media the corporations actually have. Monsanto has managed to keep quiet this critically important story about our milk and the corrupt Federal Drug Administration. Monsanto’s growth hormones, that are currently given to dairy cows to supposedly increase production,  create an unsafe product and Monsanto does not want the public to become aware of this FACT. The  reporters in this segment were going to publicly expose this danger, but were stopped by Murdoch’s attorneys who did not want to lose advertising dollars. The reporters fought against this travesty every inch of the way . . . and lost. When the issue went to court, the decision was made that falsifying news is not against the law.
We all need to keep this in mind whenever we look to main stream media for honest reporting – legally there is no requirement that they tell the truth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZkDikRLQrw
We must accept that the so-called ‘global elite’ (aka The Money Monsters) now control the media in the United States. We are currently given a non-stop diet of propaganda and mind control. Even the former CIA agent Robert Steele admits that bloggers have become the new ‘independent’ media.
Why is it so difficult to see the propaganda that is all around us?
If a fish could talk and you asked it to describe its environment, the last thing it would identify would be . . . Water.
“In the United States we’re often brought up and told we don’t have propaganda; that we have a hard charging investigative press, we have this educated sceptical even cynical citizenry and that if there were powerful interests trying to manage and manipulate public opinion they would be exposed. The reality actually is just the opposite. Academics like Alex Kerry and others, who’ve spent their life times looking at how propaganda works, find that it’s actually in Western democracies and open societies where you need the most sophisticated sorts of propaganda. And since WWI, thanks to people like Ivy Lee and Eddy Bernays, you know propaganda’s become a business – this business of public relations. Or as one of the firms that has often represented dictators, the Burson Marsteller firm, puts it . . . their business is perception management – to manage public perception, public policy on behalf of their clients who ever they might be.”

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Ibuprofen, aspirin and OTC painkillers can cause deadly heart attacks

by David Gutiérrez

In July, the FDA announced changes to the labels of nearly every medication in the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) class, warning that those drugs could cause fatal strokes and heart attacks even in young people with no known cardiovascular risk factors. Heart attacks could be triggered after just weeks of taking the pills.
“There is great concern that people think these drugs are benign, and they are probably not,” said Peter Wilson of Emory University, who served on the expert panel that advised the FDA on the decision. “The thought is these are good for short-term relief, probably for your younger person with no history of cardiovascular trouble.”
Details of risk still unknown
The FDA has required NSAIDs other than aspirin to carry warning labels about the risk of heart attacks and strokes since 2005. In the intervening decade, new research has shown that the risk was higher than previously believed. Alarmingly, research has shown that the risk increases within the first few weeks of taking the drugs, even in people with no previous risk for heart disease.
Higher doses of the drugs produce higher risks, with some prescription-strength doses potentially carrying five times the risk of over-the-counter doses. People who take non-aspirin NSAIDs following heart attacks are significantly more likely to die over the course of the following year than people who do not take those drugs.
The research has also shown that different drugs appear to carry different degrees of cardiovascular risk. Unfortunately, researchers are still unsure which drugs are more dangerous. This means that for now, all of them must be considered equally dangerous.
Wilson offered a rough rule of thumb for estimating the risk based on drug dosage. Over-the-counter NSAIDs appear to increase heart attack and stroke risk by roughly 10 percent, while low-dose prescription NSAIDs seem to increase it by about 20 percent. High-dose prescription NSAIDs can increase the risk of heart attack and stroke by about 50 percent.
No safe painkillers
Heart attack and stroke are not the only serious risks from NSAIDs. All NSAIDs, including aspirin, carry a serious risk of causing potentially fatal stomach bleeding, often without any warning. That’s because the drugs function by blocking the action of the inflammatory chemicals known as prostaglandins. Prostaglandins serve many important functions in the body, including protecting the lining of the stomach from being corroded by digestive acids.
Prostaglandins also play a key role in female fertility. That’s why NSAIDs can interfere with conception and delay or lengthen labor. Taken during pregnancy, NSAIDs can cause infants to experience delayed respiratory and circulatory development, leading to permanent health problems.
NSAIDs have also been known to cause kidney damage.
Other painkillers also carry their own risks. Narcotic painkillers in the opioid family are highly addictive and kill far more people each year than any street drug.
Acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, is the leading cause of acute liver failure. In addition, studies suggest that it actually blunts people’s emotional and moral reasoning. One study found that people who had taken Tylenol described the emotional content of various images as more neutral and less emotionally intense than people who had taken a placebo, but they were unaware that their reactions had changed. Another study found that people on Tylenol experienced less emotional pain from rejection, while a third suggested that the drug dulls the sense of indignation that leads to moral judgment.
Commenting on the FDA’s new NSAID rules, drug safety communication specialist Bruce Lambert of Northwestern University said, “One of the underlying messages for this warning has to be there are no completely safe pain relievers, period.” (Natural News).

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The Pacific Coast farmworker rebellion — FULL STORY in English version only

TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA NORTE, MEXICO - 29MARCH15 - Striking farm workers from the San Quintin Valley in Baja California took busses to Tijuana, and marched to the U.S. Mexico border, to draw attention to the fact that the tomatoes and strawberries they pick are exported to the U.S. The workers are almost all indigenous Mixtec and Triqui migrants from Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. Copyright David Bacon

by David Bacon

A burned-out concrete blockhouse – the former police station – squats on one side of the only divided street in Vicente Guerrero, half a mile from Baja California’s transpeninsular highway. Just across the street lies the barrio of Nuevo (New) San Juan Copala, one of the first settlements of migrant farm workers here in the San Quintin Valley, named after their hometown in Oaxaca.
Behind the charred stationhouse another road leads into the desert, to a newer barrio, Lomas de San Ramon. Here, on May 9, the cops descended in force, allegedly because a group of strikers were blocking a gate at a local farm. A brutal branch of the Mexican police did more than lift the blockade, though. Shooting rubber bullets at people fleeing down the dirt streets, they stormed into homes and beat residents.
By then a farm labor strike here was already two months old. Some leaders say provocateurs threw rocks and egged on a confrontation, but the beatings undeniably set off smoldering rage in the Lomas and Copala barrios. In addition, a government official who’d agreed to negotiate had failed to show up to talk with strike leaders.
By the end of the day, the police headquarters was a burned-out shell. One of the armored pickup trucks (called “tiburones,” or sharks) driven by police at breakneck speed down the dusty alleyways had been torched as well. It would be hard to imagine a more dramatic demonstration of workers’ fury over four decades of hunger wages.
And while the most dramatic protest this year has taken place in Baja California, the same anger is building among indigenous farm workers all along the Pacific coast, from San Quintin in Mexico to Burlington, an hour south of the U.S. border with Canada. Two years ago Triqui and Mixtec workers struck strawberry fields in Skagit County in Washington State. Two years before that, Triqui workers picking peas in the Salinas Valley rebelled against an inhuman work quota, and immigration raids in the town of Greenfield.
The strawberries, blackberries and blueberries sold everyday in U.S. supermarkets are largely picked by these indigenous families. Their communities are very closely connected, all along the agricultural valleys that line the Pacific Coast. These migrants come from the same region of southern Mexico, often from the same towns. They speak the same languages – ones that were thousands of years old when Europeans first landed on this continent. Increasingly they talk back and forth across the border, sharing tactics and developing a common strategy.
Indigenous farm workers labor for a small number of large growers and distributors who dominate the market. One of the largest distributors is Driscoll’s. Miles Reiter, retired CEO and grandson of its founder, says its intention is “to become the world’s berry company.” Driscoll’s contracts with growers in five countries, and even exports berries from Mexico to China.
Driscoll’s and its Baja partners BerryMex and MoraMex have a large share of Mexico’s berry harvest, worth $550 million annually. Last year Mexico shipped 25 million flats of strawberries to the U.S. Mexican shipments of 16 million flats of raspberries and 22 million flats of blackberries were larger than U.S. domestic production. The company, with headquarters in Watsonville, California, is a partner with growers all along the U.S. Pacific Coast as well.
Global distributors and growers wield enormous economic and political power. But farm workers are beginning to challenge them, organizing independent and militant movements on both sides of the border.
One of the San Quintin strikers, Claudia Reyes (her name has been changed to protect her identity), walked out when the movement started. She works in the huge tomato greenhouses of Rancho Los Pinos, owned by the Rodríguez family, one of the most politically powerful in Baja California. The gulf between her living conditions and the wealth of the grower she works for is typical of indigenous farm worker families in the valley.
Reyes’ home in Santa Maria de Los Pinos is a cinderblock house with a concrete floor, an amenity many neighbors lack. Several years after building it she still can’t come up with the money to buy frames and glass panes for windows. She’s also strung electrical conduit and plugs up the concrete walls, but the government provides no electrical service. “We buy candles for light at night, and I worry that some crazy person might break in and hurt me or the kids, because there are no streetlights either,” she says.
During the six-month work season her family doesn’t go hungry, but they only eat meat twice a week because a kilo costs 140 pesos (about $8). Eggs cost 60 pesos ($4) a carton, she says, “so it takes half a day’s work just to buy one.” She’s paid by the hour, making 900 pesos a week, or 150/day ($9), for the normal 6-day week.
The picking season is only six months long, so workers have to survive during the months when there’s no work. San Quintin’s Mixtec and Triqui laborers originally came as yearly migrants, returning to Oaxaca after picking ended.  Today, however, most live in the valley permanently.  BerryMex’s labor camp houses 550 temporary migrants, but the rest of its 4-5000 pickers live in the towns along the highway.  The Mexican government subsidizes some living costs in the off-season, through an income-based subsidy called IMSS-Oportunidades (recently renamed IMSS-Prospera).  But most families have to get what work they can or borrow from friends.
From the editor: Due to lack of space, we weren’t able to print the whole story.

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Guatemalan president to face charges

by the El Reportero’s wire services

Ex-President Otto Pérez Molina would appear on Friday, Sept. 4, before Judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez who sent him to the capital barracks Matamoros due to the risk of scape and to ensure the physical integrity of Pérez Molina, who is being accused of corruption.
In declarations to reporters, the former president promised that on Friday he would make see the judge his views to have enough arguments.
Pérez Molina discarded to have requested political asylum and felt that if he had, a country would have granted it to him.
Representatives of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig) and the Public Ministry (MP) presented on Thursday, more than 30 wiretaps that explained the modus operandi of the criminal group La Línea.
One of the recordings corresponds to Nov. 3, 2014, when Pérez Molina and the head of the Superintendence of Tax Administration (SAT), Carlos Muñoz, hold a telephone conversation.
In the audio is evident that the former leader is interested in changing the head of Human Resources at the SAT and order Muñoz to choose whoever he wanted for the position, but ‘get it done already and make the changes’.
The general is accused of leading La Línea, network dedicated to divert millions of dollars in customs, in which are involved both Muñoz as Omar Franco, who replaced him in office in January this year.
Maldonado yesterday became the ninth president of the so-called democratic era the Central American country, which began in 1985 after several governments and military dictatorships.
Maldonado sworn in Congress, declared he asked all his cabinet members to leave their positions available, specifying that on Monday will he announce substantial changes in this regard.
The meeting convened by the head of state will be a day after the celebration of general elections in Guatemala, which will be developed in the midst of a deep political crisis and high chances that abstention prevails.
Maldonado replaced Roxana Baldetti as Vice President, who resigned this month, and who is also involved in the case La Línea, according to evidence revealed by the MP and CICIG.
The magistrate Gálvez dictated prison against Baldetti, accused of passive bribery, conspiracy and special case of fraud.

More than 5,000 Honduran repatriated minors in 2015
The United States and Mexico deported 5,427 Honduran minors from January to August, the National Migration Institute in this country reported today.
The website Proceso Digital referred to Reports by the entity, which revealed that most of the returned children came from Mexico (5,354), while the United States sent 73 back.
During 2015, a total of 47,839 Hondurans returned to the country, 1,427 of whom (11 percent) are under 18 years of age, the publication said.
It has been estimated that during 2013 and 2014, 15,000 minors traveled up to the US border, a situation considered as a humanitarian crisis in this nation.

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EPA now trying to swindle Native Americans

Want to negate their compensation after polluting their land with toxic waste
by J. D. Heyes

The Obama administration, which regularly touts itself as a champion for minorities, is attempting to cheat thousands of Native Americans out of future compensation that is rightly theirs following a horrendously damaging toxic chemical spill in Colorado recently.
The Washington Times reported that tribal leaders say the Obama Environmental Protection Agency is attempting to cheat Navajo Indians by convincing them to sign away rights to future claims following the agency’s Gold King Mine disaster. These charges are only magnifying the White House’s public relations problems following the toxic spill, which threatens to disrupt critical waterways in the Southwest for many years to come.
Within days of the disaster, EPA officials began going door to door asking Navajos – some of whom do not speak English as their primary language – to sign a form offering to pay them some damages they have incurred from the spill so far. Signing the document waives any rights to return with new claims in the future if costs spiral higher than expected or if they encounter new, currently unforeseen fallout, Navajo President Russell Begaye told The Washington Times.
“It is underhanded. They’re just trying to protect their pocketbook,” he told the paper in a telephone interview.
Standard federal practice: Cheat those who have been wronged
Begaye promised he would file suit on behalf of the Navajo Nation. He also said he suspected that the EPA was attempting to buy off as many of his people as possible now to ward off any larger settlement expenses in the future.
As we previously reported, the toxic spill unleashed as much as three million gallons of heavily contaminated yellow-orange water into the Animas River, which feeds into the San Juan River and eventually the Colorado River. The tributaries provide water for cattle and crops in much of the Four Corners area, which is the nexus of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.
The Navajo Nation encompasses a great deal of that area.
While the EPA had not officially responded to a Times inquiry regarding the pending suit, the agency’s chief, Gina McCarthy, described the spill as “heartbreaking” at a press conference in Durango, Colorado. She pledged to work with tribal leaders to control and manage the spill.
“We want everything to be transparent,” she said, despite the fact that the agency grossly underestimated the size of the spill, initially claiming that only about one million gallons of toxic water had escaped through a breached dam.
As for the EPA agents trolling the Navajo Nation for early settlements, McCarthy said they were merely following the regular federal claims process, which means that throughout the government, Uncle Sam’s standard practice is to shortchange people who have been harmed by careless federal actions.
“May cause forfeiture of your rights”
Some lawmakers have pledged to look into the process. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, said via a spokeswoman that his office has fielded complaints from Navajo Nation and that his panel plans to look into the entire disaster.
“Chairman Bishop is outraged at the reports that the EPA is asking tribal members to sacrifice their rights after EPA’s ineptitude has potentially threatened their health and livelihoods,” spokeswoman Julia Bell Slingsby said. “People are suffering because of EPA negligence, and yet the federal government’s response is not to help, but to engage in grasping for legal cover before the full extent of damage is known to Navajo farmers.”
Slingsby added that the EPA would severely punish any private party or corporation that attempted to do the same thing, and she demanded to know why the Department of the Interior – which holds oversight over Native American affairs – has yet to come to the tribes’ aid.
The Times further reported:
The claim forms EPA officials were distributing on the Navajo reservation ask locals to estimate a dollar amount they can attribute to property damage, personal injury or wrongful death. The form warns that failing to total up the claim “may cause forfeiture of your rights.”

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How is your summer? Want to step inside for some art?

Compiled by the
El Reportero’s staff

Come see Soad A. Kader newest paintings and see work by 16 other artists in FourSquared at Arc Gallery. On Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015 from 7-9 p.m. At Arc Studios & Gallery, StudioSoad, Arc Studio #101. At 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, studio visits by appointment call or text or email 415-606-9875

Feminine voices and poetics at the Cuban Arts Show
We cordially invite you to an exclusive and largest art exhibition of 40 female contemporary artist all of whom live and work in Cuba.
The exhibit are works of art that represent the current trends, concepts and methods of Contemporary Cuban Art. The mediums represented will include painting, engraving, photography, and multi-media from the period between 1990 and 2013.
In collaboration with Innovation Hangar (ihangar.org) a nonprofit organization where innovative minds can inspire the world.
At the Palace of Fine Arts, 3301 Lyon St, San Francisco, Sunday, Sept. 13 at 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. For more information please email us to AcostaCabezas@gmail.com or visit us at: www.cubanart.us

Eliana López’s What is the Scandal’s one woman show continues
By popular demand, Eliana López’s One-Woman Show, What is the Scandal? will be presented for a limited run at the Victoria Theater in San Francisco.
Award-winning film, theater, and television actress, Eliana López, returns to the stage to introduce her one-woman show  What is the Scandal?
In her own voice, López explores the human side of the political scandal and the subsequent trial in 2012 against her husband, San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, as a study in politics and media, gender and cultural differences.
Eliana  will play a dozen characters that will take us through the adventures of her youth in her native Venezuela, the culture shock she experienced in moving to the United States, her love story with an elected official with whom she marries and starts a family, and the unexpected twists in their lives as a result of a family quarrel.
On Sunday, Sept. 6., at 8 p.m., Sun 6 p.m. Tickets:  $25 – $35. More Information/Purchase Tickets:  http://www.elianalopez.net/http://www.elianalopez.net

Off the Map, a new art exhibit at Puerto Alegre Restaurant
Six local artists want you to come see their art exhibit at Puerto Alegre Restaurant. They are Jacinto and his sister Lorena Castillo, Amelia Hunter, Doug Rowe, Sally Rodríguez and Mahew Mansanares.
Their art pieces will hang from now through Oct. 13, 2015. Puerto Alegre is one of the most happiest Mexican restaurant and bar in the City.  At 546 Valencia Street, San Francisco. For more info contact one of the artists, Lorena Castillo, who is also the coordinator of the exhibit, at locaworks@gmail.com.

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Singer Gilberto Santa Rosa played tribute to Dominican merengue

by the El Reportero’s news services

Puerto Rican singer Gilberto Santa Rosa offered a concert on Aug. 21 in this capital to pay tribute to the Dominican Republic genre merengue, reported the producers of the event.
Santa Rosa shared the stage of the amphitheater Nuryn Sanlley with Frank Cruz, Joseito Mateo and Vinicio Franco to sing emblematic songs of the musical genre.
In this concert, the salsa singer will also sing some of his most popular themes like Perdóname (Forgive Me), Que Alguien Me Diga (Someone Tells Me) and Conteo Regresivo (Countdown).
Also known as the Caballero de la Salsa, he has made versions of several songs, including: Caballo Viejo, by Simon Díaz; Dime Por Qué, by Ismael Rivera; and Buenas Noches Don David, by Ricardo Arjona.
Santa Rosa began his career at 12 years by organizing a group of amateur musicians with whom he took his first steps in tropical music. He has produced 20 albums throughout his career.

Cuban singing academy to pay tribute to Rita Montaner
The singing Academy Mariana de Gonitch will dedicate its concert Thursday to the Cuban singer Rita Montaner in the 115th anniversary of her birthday, announced the director of the group Hugo Oslé.
Referring to the tribute, Oslé said the presentation will take place at the Yoruba Cultural Association in this capital, and the audience will hear songs sang immortalized by Montaner as Siboney, Maria la O, Babalu Aye, Oldman River, Cecilia Valdés and La Viuda Alegre.
Through choral singing, the academy founded seven decades ago by the Russian teacher Mariana de Gonitch, will remind one of the greatest artists of Cuba, born in Guanabacoa on Aug. 20, 1900.
Montaner, known also as La única (the only one) left an undeniable mark on the theater, radio and television in this island, and achieved many successes in national and international stages.
After listening to her singing the opera La Gioconda in a duet with Lola de la Torre, the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier described her exquisite voice as a caress to ears.
Despite her ability to play the piano, which made her win the first place in an international competition, further development of the artist was as an opera singer.
The privileged vocal conditions of Montaner allowed her to play a varied repertoire that ranged from Ay Mamá Inés, by Eliseo Grenet, to La Medium and El teléfono, by Italian Gian Carlo Menotti.

Cubans pay tribute to Benny Moré
With a traditional pilgrimage to his grave, the people in this city, his hometown, paid tribute today to famous Cuban singer Benny Moré, on his 96th birthday anniversary.
Considered the greatest exponent of Cuban popular music in the 20th Century, Benny More mastered most musical expressions like son, rumba, mambo and guaracha, taking them to stages in Mexico, Venezuela, Jamaica, Haiti, Colombia, Panama and the United States.
Of a very humble origin as a grandchild of African slaves, Bartolome Maximiliano More (known as El Benny) boasted an innate talent leading him to the summit of popular music in Cuba.
He died at 43 years of age on Feb. 19, 1963, but left an immortal monumental work that spreads beyond borders.
At his own request, his body was laid to rest at the municipal cemetery of Santa Isabel de las Lajas, and his grave was declared National Monument in November 2009.

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