by the El Reportero’s news services
The Maestro Cares Foundation, co-founded by music icon Marc Anthony and prominent businessman Henry Cardenas, continues to fulfill its mission of improving the quality of life of orphaned and disadvantaged children in Latin America and the United States by providing safe and loving environments for them to live, learn and play.
This past week Maestro Cares Foundation, along with its partners and supporters, have welcomed children in four new projects in three different countries!
Casa de Gozo in Santo Tomas, El Salvador is a home inaugurated Wednesday, September 4th for Fundación La Casa De Mi Padre which will be part of a bigger complex of homes for children. In this particular home for girls, they will receive basic needs, such as private schooling and enrichment programs. This project was possible thanks to the support of their partners Mr. Macario Armando Rosales Rosa and Sistema Fedecredito.
Chilean film Araña to represent the country at Goya and Oscar awards
The film Araña (Spider) directed by Andres Wood will represent Chilean cinema in the upcoming editions of the Goya Awards in Spain and the Oscars in the United States, informed the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage.
The film, starring Mercedes Moran, María Valverde and Marcelo Alonso, was selected with 40 votes to participate in the pre-selection of the most important Hollywood awards ceremony.
Having been submitted, the film will have to wait for the final selection for the categories of Best International Feature Film in the Oscars, and Best Foreign Film in the Spanish Language in the Goyas, which in both cases are made up of five titles from all over the world.
Araña, a thriller with excellent performances and a good narrative rhythm of constant shifts between the past and the present, goes back to the years of Popular Unity in Chile, when the organization Patria y Libertad carried out actions aimed at overthrowing the government headed by Salvador Allende.
Pink Floyd bassist to perform in London in solidarity with Assange
Roger Waters, bassist and vocalist for Pink Floyd, will reportedly performed his iconic song Wish You Were Here in front of the British Home Office, in solidarity with Julian Assange.
According to the Stop the War Coalition on Twitter, the performance by the famous musician, also known for his political activism, will be next Monday at 6 p.m. local time, as part of a campaign for freedom of expression, and against the eventual extradition of the founder of Wikileaks to the United States.
Assange was arrested last April 11 at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, after the government of that country withdrew the political asylum he was granted seven years ago.
Expeditiously tried by a British court, the Australian cyberactivist is now serving a 50-week prison sentence in Belmarsh Maximum Security Prison for violating bail granted in 2012 in connection with alleged sexual offences committed in Sweden.
