30 posts tagged el_pais

Just want to be sure everyone has read The Washington Post's four part series on the violations facing those undocumented immigrants being held in detention centers across the country. Most of these people are working-class men and women or indigent laborers who did something illegal (but rarely something that poses...

Clinton won big in West Virginia last night, coming in with 67% percent of the vote, and a big let down for Obama - our presumptive nominee gets 23%? Yikes. It may be no more likely that she'll be the nominee, but chew on this: if her staying in the...

By: Tom Gjelten of NPR Time magazine last week named its picks for the 100 most influential people in the world. Raul Castro made the cut in 2007 as Cuba's acting president. This year, there's a different Cuban on the list. Yoani Sanchez, 32, has gained a worldwide following for the independent blog she writes from Havana.

The recent devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis has displaced perhaps over a million and killed tens of thousands. The initial storm flattened villages and sent a tsunami wave crashing over low-lying coastal areas. Water-bourn diseases now pose a further threat to those affected.

Cuban Refuses To Give Blogger Yoani Sanchez Visa To Collect Prize Cuban authorities have refused to give a travel visa to Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez so she can receive one of Spain’s top journalism awards in Madrid on Wednesday, said Spanish newspaper El Pais which hands out the awards annually.

Payback Time in PNG May 1, 2008Articles0 comments SRB Picks of the Week 2 May 08 By JEREMY ROSE Papua New Guinea is surely one of the most fascinating places on Earth. Its five million-plus people, speak, at last count, more than 800 languages.

The eyes of the world are on Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D-NY), but the eyes of my small corner of the universe (admittedly overpopulated with beautiful, smart and ambitious political feminists) are for obvious reasons on someone else. Immediately following the Governor's announcement, I got an email from a close friend.

What follows is a trans-continental exchange between Manuela (of "Firewall" fame, and me, Alicia) prompted by Manuela's sharing of an Atlantic Piece, entitled Marry Him! by Lori Gottlieb, in which Gottlieb makes the case for settling for "Mr. Good Enough." M: Has it come to this? A: Well, not for us.

La Jornada El pais colombia de La otra campa a. March 2nd, 2008 noinnlife Dennis Rodman, who was married to Electra for all of days, says that it s because she never got over him. Man Assaults, Attempts To Abduct School Boy. Al Qaida militant urges attacks on Bush.

Spanish newspaper El Pais has a sweet idea for how to influence people to read the newspaper: digitally altered pictures of the World Trade Center tragedy! See, if you read El Pais, you'd know that some details have been changed in the photo of this horrible disaster [Copyranter].