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US State Department Joins Search for Garrett Hand and Jamie Neal Missing in Peru

February 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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US State Department Joins Search for Garrett Hand and Jamie Neal Missing in Peru (Photo credit: Facebook)

The U.S. State Department has joined the search for Garrett Hand and Jamie Neal, an American couple who disappeared in Peru, Fox News reports. The couple left the Bay Area in November on a biking expedition across South America.

Garrett Hand and Jamie Neal were chronicling their adventures with regular status updates and photographs on Facebook. Those updates ceased on January 25.

Garrett Hand and Jamie Neal were last seen on January 26 getting into a cab in Lima after taking a bus from Cuzco. There is a Facebook page set up for the missing couple.

The State Department and the U.S. embassy in Peru sent out a travel advisory about a potential kidnapping threat in the Cuzco and Machu Picchu area.

 

 

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Univisión Staffer Angelica Artiles Slams Marco Rubio as a ‘Loser’ and ‘Token Slave Boy’

February 10, 2013 by 2 Comments
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Univisión Staffer Angelica Artiles Slams Marco Rubio as a ‘Loser’ and ‘Token Slave Boy’ (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey)

The Republican Party thinks Marco Rubio is their ticket to winning the Hispanic vote, but they had better think twice about that. The Miami Herald reports Angelica Artiles, the assistant to Univisión’s Vice President of News, unloaded on Marco Rubio’s aide, Alex Burgos’ Facebook page, calling the “GOP’s Boy Wonder,” a “loser” and “a token slave boy.” Marco Rubio will deliver the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union speech. Um, I wonder why they picked him? Pretty obvious. They did the same thing with New Orleans Gov. Bobby Jindal and it backfired.

“Oh. wow, the loser is going to speak after our President,” Artiles wrote on spokesman Alex Burgos’ Facebook page at 9:33 p.m. Wednesday. “Anything to get publicity. Ask him to do us a favor and stay home that night.”

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She then used a diminutive term for Rubio’s first name, “Marquito,” and proceeded to compare him to a Disney dwarf, a “token slave boy” and a “fool” who was passed over by Republican Mitt Romney on his presidential ticket last November.

Burgos stopped responding, but others took up Rubio’s cause and attacked Artiles for being a “troll,” Internet slang for someone who posts inflammatory statements to gin up responses. The conversation went back and forth in English and Spanish.

“I see that all the mojoncitos [‘little turds’] have come out to defend the principal turd, Marquito,” she wrote in Spanish. “I am laughing all the way to the White House icon smile Univisión Staffer Angelica Artiles Slams Marco Rubio as a Loser and Token Slave Boy .” Source

The problem for Marco Rubio is that there are many Hispanics who see him as just that, a token. Someone being played by the party just to appeal to Hispanic voters. I roll my eyes every time I hear him talking about his immigrant parents, who sought a better life for their family and blah, blah, blah.

Univisión Staffer Angelica Artiles Slams Marco Rubio as a Loser and Token Slave Boy
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Lino Cesar Oviedo, Paraguayan Presidential Candidate, Dies in Helicopter Crash

February 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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Lino Cesar Oviedo, Paraguayan Presidential Candidate, Dies in Helicopter Crash. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Paraguayan presidential candidate Lino Cesar Oviedo dies in helicopter crash, authorities said Sunday. Lino Cesar Oviedo was reportedly returning with his bodyguard from a political rally Saturday night in northern Paraguay when they encountered bad weather. All three passengers were killed when the chopper went down.

Lino Cesar Oviedo, Paraguayan Presidential Candidate, Dies in Helicopter Crash
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Hugo Chavez: “If I Was from The United States, I Would Vote for Obama”

October 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Hugo Chavez: “If I Was from The United States, I Would Vote for Obama” (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey)

QUOTE OF THE DAY: ”I hope this doesn’t harm Obama, but if I was from the United States, I’d vote for Obama.” – Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez.

Chavez also told Reuters:  ”Obama is a good guy … I think that if Obama was from Barlovento or some Caracas neighborhood, he’d vote for Chavez,” the president told state TV, referring to a poor coastal town known for the African roots of its population.

Chavez is one of the world’s most strident critics of Washington and his 14 years in office have been characterized by diplomatic spats and insults at the White House.

He called former U.S. President George W. Bush a “drunk” and the “devil.” After an initial overture to Obama came to nothing, he said the new president had disappointed progressives the world over and was the “shame” of Africans.

Hugo Chavez: If I Was from The United States, I Would Vote for Obama
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Cuban Immigrants Heading to US by Way of Panama and Colombia, Not by Solely by Sea

August 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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CUBAN IMMIGRANTS HEADING TO US –  Led by smugglers armed with knives and machetes, Mayra Reyes and 14 other Cubans sloshed through swamps and rivers and suffered hordes of mosquitoes as they struggled across the notorious Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia, the only north-south stretch of the Americas to defy road-builders.

After walking for three days, the group reached the foot of a steep, scrubby mountain. There, the smugglers peeled away and told the Cubans they would have to press ahead alone.

“I thought I was going to have a heart attack,” the 32-year-old hairdresser from Havana told The Associated Press. “What the guides did was get us to the mountain, where we had to wait for nightfall while these green and black poisonous frogs got on top of us.”

Hundreds of Cubans like Reyes are taking that arduous new route toward the United States, trekking across the 85 miles (135 kilometers) of steamy tropical jungle that divides Colombia and Panama, through mountains, ravines, and muddy ground teeming with poisonous reptiles, jaguars, wild boars, guerrillas and drug traffickers.

Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/08/02/cubans-headed-to-us-head-by-way-panama-and-colombia/#ixzz22Xc0ptej

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