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<title><![CDATA[Funny vid - La Tenchis and friends apply for USA Visa]]></title>
<link>http://susispice.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/funny-vid-la-tenchis-and-friends-apply-for-usa-visa/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Susi Spice</dc:creator>
<guid>http://susispice.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/funny-vid-la-tenchis-and-friends-apply-for-usa-visa/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This is too funny, I almost cried from laughter after watching this. I will translate the first few ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[El Salvador: Fuerzas armadas en seguridad pública: ¿La solución? / Oscar A. Fernández O.]]></title>
<link>http://scela.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/el-salvador-fuerzas-armadas-en-seguridad-publica-%c2%bfla-solucion-oscar-a-fernandez-o/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>carbas</dc:creator>
<guid>http://scela.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/el-salvador-fuerzas-armadas-en-seguridad-publica-%c2%bfla-solucion-oscar-a-fernandez-o/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[El temor a la delincuencia, según la última investigación de opinión de la Universidad Centroamerica]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[El temor a la delincuencia, según la última investigación de opinión de la Universidad Centroamerica]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Allison Iraheta - El Salvador wants you!]]></title>
<link>http://susispice.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/allison-iraheta-el-salvador-wants-you/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Susi Spice</dc:creator>
<guid>http://susispice.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/allison-iraheta-el-salvador-wants-you/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[well, I received an email from the producer of this Pop music show in El Salvador called El Sotano. ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[well, I received an email from the producer of this Pop music show in El Salvador called El Sotano. ]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Will Amazon's Global Kindle Work in YOUR Country?]]></title>
<link>http://expat21.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/will-amazons-global-kindle-work-in-your-country/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mary Mimouna</dc:creator>
<guid>http://expat21.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/will-amazons-global-kindle-work-in-your-country/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In case you are thinking of purchasing the new global version of Amazon&#8217;s Kindle for Christmas]]></description>
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<p>In case you are thinking of purchasing the new global version of Amazon&#8217;s Kindle for Christmas, be aware that there are still quite a few places that the global version will NOT work.  I was disappointed to find that the new version still will not work in my country.</p>
<p>Apparently the new global version will only work in SOME countries.   I thought it would be helpful to most expats to have a complete list of which countries it will, or will not work in (below).</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also interesting to note the PATTERN of groups of countries where the Kindle doesn&#8217;t work&#8211;some countries probably lack satellite coverage or delivery systems, while others probably don&#8217;t WANT readers to be able to download whatever they want by satellite.</p>
<p>STARRED (*) countries marked below indicate that Kindle needs to be ordered from a SPECIAL PAGE on the Amazon site.</p>
<p><strong>The Global Kindle version DOES work in (as of Dec. 2009):</strong></p>
<p>Aland Islands, Albania, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Aruba, Australia*, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Boznia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Cote d&#8217;Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Holy See, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Kenya, Kiribati, Lao People&#8217;s Democratic Republic, Latvia, Liberia, Leichtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Moldovia, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Mozembique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Réunion, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka,  Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Virgin Islands &#8211; British, Virgin Islands &#8211; U.S.,  Wallis and Futuna, Zambia, Zimbabwe.</p>
<p><strong>The Global Kindle version does NOT work in (as of Dec. 2009) the following countries:</strong></p>
<p>Afghanistan, Algeria, Antarctica, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bouvet Island, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chile, Chad, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, French Southern Territories, Gambia, Guinea, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Isle of Man, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea &#8211; Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of, Korea &#8211; Republic of, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco (including the Western Sahara), New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Pitcairn, Qatar, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Helena, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands, Sudan, Svalbard and Jan Mayan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tokelau, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Uzbekistan,  Yemen.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[02 La verdad es que mis sentidos]]></title>
<link>http://vtacius.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/02-la-verdad-es-que-mis-sentidos/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>vtacius</dc:creator>
<guid>http://vtacius.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/02-la-verdad-es-que-mis-sentidos/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[La verdad es que mis sentidos se alteran cuando estoy con vos (te aviso que nunca he tenido sentido ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>La verdad es que mis sentidos<br />
se alteran<br />
cuando estoy con vos<br />
(te aviso que nunca he tenido<br />
sentido de rima)<br />
Cuando estoy contigo amor mío<br />
Perdón<br />
cerca<br />
en tanto cerca<br />
la idea de que estes en este<br />
planeta me encanta<br />
porque la esencia de tu ser<br />
vuela por los aires<br />
con la misma brutalidad<br />
con la que se expide<br />
un alma al eter<br />
Ya nuestras realidades se han fundido<br />
por obra del destino<br />
en un lugar inesperado</p>
<p>Amor mío<br />
(te nombro como lo que por ahora no eres<br />
de mi)<br />
Desde ya te aviso<br />
El universo entero que ha dañado<br />
pero tú<br />
(la última de mis esperanzas)<br />
Me matarás</p>
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<title><![CDATA[01 Hoy queme la bolsa de basura de papel]]></title>
<link>http://vtacius.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/01-hoy-queme-la-bolsa-de-basura-de-papel/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>vtacius</dc:creator>
<guid>http://vtacius.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/01-hoy-queme-la-bolsa-de-basura-de-papel/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hoy queme la bolsa de basura de papel que hay que mi casa Son cosas de seguridad Miles Miles de mill]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Hoy queme la bolsa de basura de papel<br />
que hay que mi casa<br />
Son cosas de seguridad<br />
Miles<br />
Miles de millones de secretos pasan por mi cuarto<br />
(oscuro reino donde no se aceptan dólares)<br />
Soy ecologista<br />
pero hay una cantidad inmensa de material<br />
clasificado<br />
que hay que ocultar<br />
en la oscuridad en el fuego<br />
Allí<br />
Allí murieron algunos recados que nos<br />
pasábamos en el salón<br />
No se cuántos de mis primeros poemas<br />
para vos<br />
fueron quemados<br />
porque<br />
yo que nunca quise amarte<br />
yo que no pretendí que sucediera<br />
yo que pase noches vela tratando<br />
de olvidarte<br />
yo hice mi poemas, acaso, sobre la<br />
cuestión de amarte<br />
Los arroje a la basura<br />
Ya murieron tres.<br />
Otros miles reemplazarán su lugar</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Tatiana]]></title>
<link>http://observadorjuvenil.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/tatiana/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>David Duke</dc:creator>
<guid>http://observadorjuvenil.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/tatiana/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Invítame de vez en cuando a tus conversaciones, Que tenes vos y  tu conciencia, Invítame cuando pued]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Invítame  de  vez en cuando  a tus  conversaciones,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Que tenes  vos y  tu conciencia,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Invítame cuando  puedas,<!--more--></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">y tal vez  un susurro te lleva a la mente una imagen mía,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Invítame a sentarme  junto a vos  y tocar tus manos,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Llámame  con tu olor a tus reuniones</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Y llévame a tu cuarto interior</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dime que sientes  cuando me acerco,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Por que puedo notarlo  en tu cara,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Y no me dejes en este limbo de silencios;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Toma mi mano como lo hiciste sin querer,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Invade mi mente como lo sabes hacer,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Secuestra mis pensamientos  como lo hiciste  ayer,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Llévame   a tu lugar intimo,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Susurra un nombre y un suspiro,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tómame  en tu mente y  no me dejes en paz,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hasta que llegue hasta ti ..</p>
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<title><![CDATA[04 Olvidé]]></title>
<link>http://vtacius.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/04-olvide/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>vtacius</dc:creator>
<guid>http://vtacius.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/04-olvide/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Olvidé como decir “hola mundo” en francés Creo que en realidad nunca lo aprendí. Olvidé. Olvidé a Di]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Olvidé<br />
como decir<br />
“hola mundo”<br />
en francés<br />
Creo que en realidad nunca lo aprendí.<br />
Olvidé.<br />
Olvidé a Dios olvidado quedó<br />
en el olvidado fondo de aquel<br />
olvidado cajón.<br />
(Al menos recuerdo donde quedó)</p>
<p>Me bebí un vaso de agua<br />
que contenía agua.<br />
Muere el viejo niño a los bastantes años<br />
de vivo<br />
y estaba vivo solo de milagro<br />
porque hasta para el<br />
era un estorbo vivir<br />
Dejó de ejercitarse<br />
dejó de ver a sus amigos<br />
dejó de ver a su madre<br />
olvido como vivir<br />
o tan solo nunca lo había aprendido</p>
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<title><![CDATA[03 Me perdí un día sin sol]]></title>
<link>http://vtacius.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/03-me-perdi-un-dia-sin-sol/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>vtacius</dc:creator>
<guid>http://vtacius.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/03-me-perdi-un-dia-sin-sol/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Me perdí un día sin sol en eterna búsqueda de la luna Era un día sin sombras y sin embargo había aca]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Me perdí un día sin sol<br />
en eterna búsqueda de la luna<br />
Era un día sin sombras<br />
y sin embargo había acaso mil imágenes<br />
multicolores<br />
que producía el sol<br />
al pasar por mi traslucida materia<br />
El viento era suave<br />
cual brisa cálida<br />
levemente expulsada<br />
del aliento marino<br />
en aquellas tardes cuando el sol resplandece<br />
en tientas casi monocromáticos<br />
pero de rojo y púrpura no aliña<br />
Pero un día me perdí.<br />
No pude encontrarme a mí mismo<br />
Y<br />
aunque busqué mi reflejo<br />
en pupilas ajenas<br />
los ojos de mis prójimos<br />
se cerraron cuando ante ellos pasé:<br />
pues mi imagen<br />
era una repulsión de todo lo recto, sano y verdadero.<br />
Maldito hereje era yo.<br />
Por fortuna me perdí el día sin sol<br />
Ya nadie podrá seguir mis pasos<br />
El viento<br />
Que fue el único que murmuro mi huida<br />
Borró ya mis huellas</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Prayer Requests]]></title>
<link>http://orphanhelpersblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/prayer-requests/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>orphanhelpers</dc:creator>
<guid>http://orphanhelpersblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/prayer-requests/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Thanks to everyone who is lifting up Orphan Helpers and all our kids and teenagers in prayer. We hav]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Thanks to everyone who is lifting up Orphan Helpers and all our kids and teenagers in prayer. We have just posted an updated list on our <a href="http://orphanhelpers.org/GetInvolved/Give/PrayerSupport/tabid/109/Default.aspx" target="_blank">website</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.&#8221;  James 5:16</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://orphanhelpers.org/GetInvolved/Give/PrayerSupport/tabid/109/Default.aspx" target="_blank">Click here for prayer requests</a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://orphanhelpersblog.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/kids-praying.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1405" title="Kids praying" src="http://orphanhelpersblog.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/kids-praying.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="195" /></a><a href="http://orphanhelpersblog.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/children-praying.gif"></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Crisis en América Latina: El impacto sobre la pobreza rural]]></title>
<link>http://redprensarural.com/2009/11/25/crisis-en-america-latina-el-impacto-sobre-la-pobreza-rural/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>periodistarural</dc:creator>
<guid>http://redprensarural.com/2009/11/25/crisis-en-america-latina-el-impacto-sobre-la-pobreza-rural/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Pese a su mayor desconexión con los mercados globales, las zonas rurales pobres están sintiendo los ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mary Anastasia O'Grady: Making enemies wherever she goes]]></title>
<link>http://mexfiles.net/2009/11/25/mary-anastasia-ogrady-making-enemies-wherever-she-goes/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>richmx2</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mexfiles.net/2009/11/25/mary-anastasia-ogrady-making-enemies-wherever-she-goes/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Mary Anastasia O&#8217;Grady is probably the only writer I&#8217;ll ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Mary Anastasia O&#8217;Grady is probably the only writer I&#8217;ll miss if the Journal, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/07/rupert-murdoch-charging-websites" target="_blank">as owner Rupert Murdoch threatens</a>, becomes unavailable on the internet without a subscription.  Not that I think O&#8217;Grady is a good analyst&#8230; exactly the opposite.  She&#8217;s even a better barometer of what Latin Americans are NOT going to do than the Miami Herald&#8217;s Andres Oppenheimer.    Oppenheimer accepts as gospel whatever the Latin American right-wing says, but sometimes the rightist win elections.   O&#8217;Grady makes shit up.</p>
<p>Her pernicious fictions about Honduras were accepted by the Obama Administration (or, at least, they were by South Carolina Senator Jim De Mint, and the Administration, for domestic policy reasons, was willing to sacrifice Honduran democracy in exchange for a rather unimportant vote on confirming state department appointees) but no one is buying her tales lately.</p>
<p>A recent<a href="http://gaviero.net/?p=681" target="_blank"> O&#8217;Grady &#8220;analysis&#8221; of the upcoming Bolivian elections is described by El Gaviero</a> as a</p>
<p style="padding-left:15px;"><span style="font-size:90%;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&#8230; factually challenged screed [which] fails on many levels, one being her deification of disgraced former Bolivian president Gonzalo “Goni the Gringo” Sánchez de Lozada (presently wanted in Bolivia for ordering the massacre of his countrymen and a defendant in the U.S. for said crimes against humanity and extrajudicial killings).</span></span></p>
<p>Read his post.   The humiliating deconstruction of O&#8217;Grady&#8217;s thesis  by twenty United States, French and Bolivian academics is a masterpiece of invective.</p>
<p>You might expect ol&#8217; hippies (er, young hippies) out in the jungle like Gav to excoriate capitalist tools (in the bad sense) like O&#8217;Grady &#8212; but good churchgoing mid-western Lutherans (aka &#8220;God&#8217;s Frozen People&#8221;) are supposed to be slow to anger&#8230; even by those circumnavigations about the periphery of veracity.</p>
<p><a href="http://luterano.blogspot.com/2009/11/mary-ogrady-continues-her-right-wing.html" target="_blank">Tim&#8217;s El Salvador Blog is royally frosted by an 8 November 2009 O&#8217;Grady piece</a> in which she claims that a split among congressional representatives of El Salvador&#8217;s far-right Arena party (the issue being investigation of fraud in an agricultural subsidy program) somehow is the work of Hugo Chavez.</p>
<p style="padding-left:15px;"><span style="font-size:90%;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You might have thought that this fear-mongering about El Salvador becoming a puppet state of Venezuela would have ended with the shut down of <a href="http://luterano.blogspot.com/2008/10/arena-reverts-to-tactics-of-2004.html">ARENA&#8217;s propaganda</a> machine after the March elections, but not so for O&#8217;Grady.  She consciously decides not to mention [Salvadorian President Mauricio] Funes <a href="http://luterano.blogspot.com/2009/09/funes-approval-rating-highest-in.html">84% approval rating</a>, the decidedly moderate measures taken by the government in the past 5 months, and the repeated statements by the FMLN leadership that they support Funes and have no difference in opinion with him. Sometimes when I see someone spouting such nonsense, I can&#8217;t resist responding.</span></span></p>
<p>When O&#8217;Grady writes about the Catholic Church in Honduras and the Church&#8217;s supposed support of the coup regime, there&#8217;s a tag team, made up of <a href="http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/1085/" target="_blank">Tegacigulpa based Rhoades scholar and researcher, Daniel Altshueler, and Diocese of Copan assistant director of Caritas and lay brother &#8220;Hermano Juancito&#8221;</a> to try bringing Ms. O&#8217;Grady&#8217;s musings back in line with the eighth and ninth commandments (not to mention journalistic ethics).</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not going to embarrass myself by trying to quote Virgil in the original (not that I&#8217;m a Latin scholar in any way, though I&#8217;ve picked up a few phrases here and there), but the Roman poet immortalized a lousy writer of his day as one  &#8220;tolerated neither by the gods, nor by men or nor by book sellers&#8221;.    Mary Anastasia O&#8217;Grady will be remembered &#8212; if at all &#8212; in Latin AMERICAN letters as one &#8220;tolerated neither by men of God, nor by scholars, nor by book-sellers.&#8221;  And that&#8217;s giving her more credit than she&#8217;s worth.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Crazy Vendors on El Salvador buses]]></title>
<link>http://susispice.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/crazy-vendors-on-el-salvador-buses/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Susi Spice</dc:creator>
<guid>http://susispice.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/crazy-vendors-on-el-salvador-buses/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Oh my gosh, I am bringing you some more of the love i feel for El Salvador. This is quite funny I mu]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Bob" Seldon Lady]]></title>
<link>http://byebyeunclesam.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/bob-seldon-lady/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Bob&#8221; Seldon Lady, l&#8217;ex capo della stazione della CIA a Milano, colui che comandav]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;Bob&#8221; Seldon Lady, l&#8217;ex capo della stazione della CIA a Milano, colui che comandava i 23 agenti della &#8220;super agenzia&#8221; yankee condannati in Italia per aver sequestrato, torturato e poi fatto &#8220;scomparire&#8221; <a href="http://byebyeunclesam.wordpress.com/category/versione-italiana/abu-omar-versione-italiana/">l&#8217;iman egizio Abu Omar</a> nella città italiana di Milano nel 2003, era una figura chiave nella rete che dall&#8217;Honduras ed El Salvador scambiò armi per cocaina a sostegno della contra nicaraguense negli anni &#8216;80.<br />
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Lady, un nordamericano di 52 anni, è nato nell&#8217;Honduras e partecipò insieme a suo padre in operazioni dell&#8217;Agenzia Centrale d&#8217;Intelligence degli Stati Uniti nella guerra sporca contro i sandinisti nicaraguensi, prima di arruolarsi dopo il 2001 in una &#8220;Operazione Condor&#8221; in versione mediorientale.<br />
Tra i 26 imputati della fase iniziale della causa in Italia, si trovava una donna &#8211; Betnie Medero &#8211; ora presuntamente residente in Messico che è stata a capo del comando così come una misteriosa funzionaria del Dipartimento di Stato, Mónica Courtney Adler.<br />
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Tra i membri del comando di sequestratori, è di particolare interesse il caso di Betnie Medero. Questa donna di 33 anni aveva l&#8217;incarico di seconda segretaria nell&#8217;ambasciata degli Stati Uniti a Roma. E&#8217; arrivata in Italia nell&#8217;agosto 2001 con credenziali diplomatiche e &#8211; secondo il Corriere della Sera &#8211; ha personalmente diretto il sequestro in situ, oltre ad avere poi assicurato il trasferimento dell&#8221;ostaggio fino alla base statunitense di Aviano, nel nord del paese. Ora si ritiene che sia in Messico, con legami con la locale ambasciata USA, secondo lo stesso quotidiano italiano.<br />
Medero ebbe due complici principali in quest&#8217;azione, che sembra ripresa da un film di Hollywood: James Thomas Harbison, di 58 anni , e Vincent (o Vicent o Vicente) Faldo, di 57 anni. Comunque, le caratteristiche del capobanda, Robert &#8220;Bob&#8221; Lady, illustrano l&#8217;estensione delle operazioni dell&#8217;agenzia nordamericana in tutto il mondo. Figlio di William &#8220;Bill&#8221; Lady, un vecchio agente della CIA radicato in Honduras, &#8220;Bob&#8221; Lady diresse insieme a Manuchar Ghorbanifar &#8211; un sulfureo negoziante iraniano &#8211; la vendita segreta di armi all&#8217;Iran che, insieme alle operazioni di narcotraffico dirette da El Salvador da Félix Rodríguez Mendigutía e Luis Posada Carriles, hanno provocato il più grande scandalo che colpi l&#8217;amministrazione Reagan.<br />
Lady portò avanti i suoi loschi collegamenti sotto gli ordini del tenente colonnello dei marines Oliver North, che ha anche comandato le operazioni ad Ilopango, anch&#8217;esse allo scopo di fornire illegalmente armi alla contra nicaraguense.<br />
Queste operazioni si svilupparono anche in parallelo con la rete di contrabbando del multimilionario Gerard Latchinian, padrino dell&#8217;imprenditore Yehuda Leitner, attuale fornitore di armi ed di equipaggiamenti per reprimere della dittatura Micheletti.<br />
&#8220;Bob&#8221; Lady continuava ad operare in America Centrale nel 1994, quando la spia Aldrich Ames &#8220;lo bruciò&#8221;, rivelando il suo nome all&#8217;intelligence sovietica, secondo quanto sostiene la stampa nordamericana. Il suo nome fu poi associato al &#8220;Nigergate&#8221;, quell&#8217;operazione di disinformazione che giustificò l&#8217;occupazione dell&#8217;Iraq con il pretesto &#8211; completamente inventato &#8211; che Saddam Hussein tentava di acquisire uranio in Niger.<br />
Lady è fuggito precipitosamente dall&#8217;Italia nel giugno 2005, quando seppe che la magistratura di quel paese si interessava del sequestro di Abu Omar. Avvertita, sua moglie, cancellò tutti i files del suo computer, ma gli specialisti della polizia riuscirono a recuperarne una buona parte. Anzi, gli inquirenti trovano prove del soggiorno di due settimane di Lady in El Cairo, proprio quelle in cui cominciò l&#8217;interrogatorio dell&#8217;iman di Milano.<br />
Alcune fonti assicurano che &#8220;Bob&#8221; Lady si trova ora di ritorno in America Centrale.<br />
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<p>Da <em><a href="http://sitoaurora.altervista.org/Falseflag/Terroristi3.htm">L&#8217;ex capo della CIA a Milano coinvolto nella rete terroristica di Posada Carriles</a></em>, di <strong>Jean-Guy Allard</strong>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Presentando Allison Iraheta! - Nueva cantante Americana-Salvadorena]]></title>
<link>http://missopinion.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/presentando-allison-iraheta-nueva-cantante-americana-salvadorena/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>missopinion</dc:creator>
<guid>http://missopinion.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/presentando-allison-iraheta-nueva-cantante-americana-salvadorena/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&gt;VER LA CANCION EN INGLES AQUI &lt;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Como otra salvadore]]></description>
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<p>Como otra salvadoreña estoy súper entusiasmada de escribir sobre esta chica nacida en Estados Unidos de padres Salvadoreños que inmigraron a EU. Solo me puedo imaginar el orgullo que sus padres deben de sentir de su éxito que empieza.</p>
<p> Esta chica si puede cantar!! La canción es cool y personalmente, sé que soy un poco predispuesta a mi gente salvadoreña, pero estoy orgullosa de su contribución a la imagen de la comunidad latina. Aunque ella no lo sepa pero su éxito en American Idol la hace ejemplar.</p>
<p> Chequean esta chica! Canta súper bien, es bella y trae un buen imagen a todos los latinos!!</p>
<p> Aquí les presento la canción debut de Allison Iraheta… El Viernes me Olvido Yo</p>
<p>Tuve que reponer el video original de El Viernes te Olvido Yo porque lo quitaron de circulacion.. no se porque.. pero almenos lo tienen no??</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/q7pOnd3eJNw&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/q7pOnd3eJNw&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Introducing Allison Iraheta! - New singing sensation]]></title>
<link>http://missopinion.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/introducing-allison-iraheta-new-singing-sensation/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>missopinion</dc:creator>
<guid>http://missopinion.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/introducing-allison-iraheta-new-singing-sensation/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As a fellow Salvadoran I am so excited to blog about this new American-Salvadoran singer. Her name i]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>As a fellow Salvadoran I am so excited to blog about this new American-Salvadoran singer. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Iraheta">Her name is Allison Iraheta</a>&#8230; she was born in the US but is from immigrant Salvadoran stock.</p>
<p> The girl can sing! The song is pretty cool and personally, I know I may sound biased, but oh my gosh I am so proud of her for doing such amazing work!!!</p>
<p> She is a graduate of the American Idol generation but really a hell of a lot more singing credibility than Miley Cyrus. Actually maybe it might even be a bit of an offence to compare her to Miley Cyrus’ singing capability or lack there of!</p>
<p> Check her out, give her a chance. I think she sounds great! Looks fab and is bringing a great new image to all the latinos out there!!</p>
<p> Go Allison!!</p>
<p>This is her new debut single Friday Ill be Over You!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Introducing Allison Iraheta!]]></title>
<link>http://susispice.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/introducing-allison-iraheta/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Susi Spice</dc:creator>
<guid>http://susispice.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/introducing-allison-iraheta/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As a fellow Salvadoran I am so excited to blog about this new American-Salvadoran singer. Her name i]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[こら！]]></title>
<link>http://fumihikotominaga.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/%e3%81%93%e3%82%89%ef%bc%81/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fumihiko Tominaga</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[“Cómo se dice ‘ladrón’ en japonés?” “Tequito tucheke” “Ladrón” は日本語で何て言うでしょう？ てきとつちぇけ ※正解は「泥棒」です。 ]]></description>
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<p> “Cómo se dice ‘ladrón’ en japonés?”</p>
<p> “Tequito tucheke”</p>
<p> “Ladrón” は日本語で何て言うでしょう？</p>
<p> てきとつちぇけ</p>
<p> ※正解は「泥棒」です。</p>
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<p>エルサルバドル、というか中南米全体に渡ってですが、では、アジア人は全員「Chino」と呼ばれます。アジア人はみんな中国人です。</p>
<p>でも俺は日本人であって、中国人ではないわけで、道を歩いていて、「Chino！」と声かけられるのは、はっきり言っていい気はしません。</p>
<p>日本人に、アメリカ人とイギリス人とデンマーク人が見分けられないのと同じように、エルサルバドル人にはアジア人はみんな同じに見えるので、仕方ないっちゃあ仕方ないわけですが。でもせめてアジア人と呼んでほしいです。もしくは外国人。</p>
<p>まぁ、それは置いといて、この写真見てください。スペイン語で「泥棒」を表す言葉を、日本語ではなんと言うか？、というキャンディのおまけでついてくるクイズなのですが、答えがめちゃくちゃです。「Tequito tucheke」（てきとつちぇけ）。</p>
<p>・・・</p>
<p>思わす、こら！！、と言ってしまいたくなるクイズでした・・・。いくら何でもこれはないだろ～。</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Soliradidad Con El Salvador - Huracan Ida desastre]]></title>
<link>http://missopinion.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/soliradidad-con-el-salvador-huracan-ida-desastre/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>missopinion</dc:creator>
<guid>http://missopinion.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/soliradidad-con-el-salvador-huracan-ida-desastre/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[El siguiente email que recibi de nuestro consular general: es para todos los Salvadorenos que se enc]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>El siguiente email que recibi de nuestro consular general: es para todos los Salvadorenos que se encuentren en Australia:</p>
<p>Estimados Compatriotas y Amigos:</p>
<p>Nuestro país ha sido golpeado duramente por la tormenta tropical “Ida” y dado los graves impactos humanos y a la infraestructura ocasionada por las lluvias producidas por el paso de este huracán en El Salvador se decretó Estado de Emergencia Nacional. Ante esta difícil situación muchos compatriotas se han organizado para colaborar con las victimas de esta tragedia y en la etapa de reconstrucción y  para ello, a raíz de este noble interés se conformó un Comité de Emergencia de Salvadoreños en Melbourne integrado por diversas asociaciones y personas particulares que de manera desinteresada estarán trabajando de forma conjunta y coordinada con el Consulado General de El Salvador organizando diversas actividades.</p>
<p>En estos momentos más que nunca El Salvador necesita de toda la ayuda que se le pueda ofrecer y les hacemos un llamado a que apoyen desde donde se encuentren las actividades que se realicen a favor de los damnificados de Ida &#8211; El Salvador:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXLpoQTpWfE&#38;feature=player_embedded">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXLpoQTpWfE&#38;feature=player_embedded#</a></p>
<p>Anticipadamente les agradecemos el apoyo que puedan prestar a todas estas gestiones en beneficio de las personas que están necesitando de nuestra ayuda en El Salvador.  Si desean colaborar en alguna de estas actividades pueden comunicarse al Consulado General o bien hacerlo participando en los eventos que se lleven acabo, haciendo circular este correo electrónico y también les informamos que se encuentra abierta una cuenta en la cual pueden hacer donativos en efectivo:</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">CUENTA BANCARIA</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Consulado General de El Salvador</strong></p>
<p><strong>Ayuda a damnificados</strong></p>
<p><strong>Emergencia Huracán Ida</strong></p>
<p><strong>Banco Westpac</strong></p>
<p><strong>BSB 033165</strong></p>
<p><strong>Cuenta Número 254894</strong><br />
<strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">EVENTOS BENEFICOS</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Domingo, 13 de Diciembre</strong>: gran evento y fiesta bailable benéfica organizada por el Comité de Emergencia en el Glengala Community Centre, Simmie Street y Glengala Road, Sunshine de la 1:00PM a las 10:00PM.  Con la participación de bandas musicales, mariachi, bailes folklóricos y otras animaciones.  Entrada $20.00 todos los fondos recaudados se canalizaran oficialmente a las victimas. Mayor información en el Consulado General (03)9686 9151</p>
<p><strong>Sábado, 19 de diciembre</strong>: Fiesta Navideña en Elio’s Bar, 770 Nicholson Street, Fitzroy con Banda Fuego.  $35.00 ($10.00 serán donados a los trabajos de FUNDECOM en San Vicente). Mayor información: 0412 943 648</p>
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<p><strong>Domingo, 20 de diciembre</strong>: Partido de futbol 26A Wardale Road, Sprigvale South. 12PM en adelante 2 partidos amistosos.  Mayor información: 0403 008 227</p>
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<p>Al apelar a su sentido solidario y generosidad en estas difíciles circunstancias les enviamos nuestros más atentos saludos y agradecimiento por la ayuda que puedan brindar.</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>Mauricio Mena</p>
<p>Cónsul General</p>
<p>Consulado General de El Salvador</p>
<p>Level 7, 20-22 Albert Road</p>
<p>South Melbourne 3205, VIC</p>
<p>Australia</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>TEL 61-3-96869151</p>
<p>FAX 61-3-96865994</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="mailto:mauriciomena@rree.gob.sv">mauriciomena@rree.gob.sv</a></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[San Pedro to La Libertad]]></title>
<link>http://srekken.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/san-pedro-to-la-libertad/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://srekken.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/san-pedro-to-la-libertad/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So if there was anyone concerned I am still alive.  I am back in the saddle again and heading south.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div id="_mcePaste">So if there was anyone concerned I am still alive.  I am back in the saddle again and heading south.  My time off the bike with Carly ended up being much longer than I orginally planned.  I think we found ourselves not really wanting to part and stretched things out as long as possible.  We ended up traveling through El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.  I even went back to the states and spent a few weeks with Carly in California and I even convinced her to come to Kansas for a few days.  I know this is supposed to be a blog about a bicycle trip so I will leave out the details of my travel by autobus, but highlights include: becoming scuba certified and celebrating Honduran Independence Day in the Bay Islands, being stuck in Tegucigalpa while the president returned and the town was under marshall law, hiking in Isla Olmetepe in Nicaragua, and traveling up and down the California coast.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">After almost two and a half months away from the bicycle I finally boarded the plane back to Guatemala City.  I took off around midnight from L.A. and two flights, one shuttle, and two chicken buses later I was back in San Pedro by the following night.  All of Lago Atitlan is surrounded by very steep slopes.  I was cringing as the bus had to make three point turns to get around the numerous switchbacks decending into the city.  It was really tough to get myself motivated to get the bike and start going again.  I knew how out of shape I was and the climb out would have been a huge challenge at the peak of my fitness.  I spent Saturday and Sunday getting the bike out of storage, doing some minor repairs, cleaning my equipment, and generally trying to get mentally prepared for what I was going back to.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">I have to admit, my first thoughts when I got the bike were not good.  The bike was still caked in mud and the bags had a really musky smell after being sealed up for so long.  I started to remember all the pain and hardship I had gone through to get this far.  When I originally started this trip I was full of excitement and a little nieve.  I knew there was going to be huge challenges, but I don&#8217;t think I really appreciated the difficulty and the scale of what I was doing.  Now, after having a three month sample, I knew what was about to happen to my body.  The brutal sun, the freezing winds, the daily pain in my legs and knees, the insatiable thirst and hunger, the territorial dogs, the flat tires in the middle of nowhere, and all sorts of biting insects were about to become part of my daily life once again.  I left a beautiful woman for this?</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">My plan was to leave on Sunday and just try to make it up the hill.  My lack of motivation, for all the above reasons, and the activities of Saturday night ensured that was not going to happen.  I eventually told myself that my bike wasn&#8217;t going to pedal itself up that hill and it was time to get moving.  I did consider hitching a ride to the top and getting the really bad part over with that way, but I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to do it.  I have no problem getting a ride down a hill if I need to or even on flat ground if it is necessary, but to wimp out on a climb just didn&#8217;t feel right.  Finally around noon on Monday I loaded up and took off.  I knew it was a late start, but I felt the most important thing was to get moving.  I say sometimes, life is all about inertia, and I figured once I got going everything would start to click again.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Once I hit the hill leaving the town, I quickly realized that pedaling was going to be impossible for me.  I realized I was in for a long push, but my pride still did not let me flag down a truck.  It was a little frustrating, because I think I could have made it up at my peak.  However, even then it would have been quite an accomplishment.  It reminded me a lot of the Uspantan climb which was right before I arrived at the lake and was a huge challenge for me.  It got dark early.  This is a new problem that I am going to have to deal with for the rest of the trip realistically.  I will have to start using my daylight much more efficiently which is unfortunate, because I really enjoy goofing off for a while in the middle of my ride with an ice cream cone or two.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">I was only able to push/ride about halfway up the hill.  I stopped in Santa Clara which I actually found to be a charming little town.  I was surprised after the heat of the day how cold it became.  I couldn&#8217;t stop sweating all day long and at night I could quite easily see my breath.  I also don&#8217;t know what it is about high mountain towns, but I find them irresistable.  Maybe I had simply been in Los Angeles for too long, but the air up there felt so good and crisp.  I had a little stroll through the town and attempted to get back into speaking Spanish by talking to the street vendors.  Unfortunately, I have a lot of making up to do on this.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">One short side note.  In the center of this town there was a park with a basketball hoop and children playing late into the night.  I have been amazed at how popular basketball seems to be around here.  Football is obviously still the national sport, but every village has a court and there always seems to be people playing, both young and old.  The really ironic thing about this is Guatemalans are the shortest people I have ever seen in my life.  If you look around in crowded markets, all you will see at eye level are white people.  I am by no means tall and I tower over all the indigenous people.  I suppose there are several reasons for this ranging from an isolated gene pool to improper nutrition.  It kinda makes me feel bad for the thousands of children playing basketball because they will never be able to realize the dream.  If someone did reach the height of 5&#8242;8&#8243; he would only learn to play the five spot and never develop guard skills for the NBA.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">The next day was more of the same.  I still got a relatively late start.  I think I was slightly on California time still because I slept in at San Pedro every morning.  Then the morning was filled with more pushing the bike and trying to get up the monstrous hill.  I finally reached the summit around noon and was able to properly cycle for the first time.  Unfortunately, I was already very low on energy.  I put in about two hours riding through the mountains and into the teeth of a cold wind before I was absolutely beat.  I decided to call it quits at Los Encuentros, which is basically a crummy truck stop at a junction between two major highways.  I felt terrible for quitting so early in the day, especially when I knew my family and my girl are waiting for me back at home, but I told myself to be patient with my body.  When I started in Baja California, I was on much easier terrain, with a partner to help with the wind, and at sea level.  Even then, I remembered, the first week was hell.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">I ate, got a room and fell asleep, woke up and ate again, and fell asleep agin.  I told myself as long as I make it to Antigua the next day it will all be ok.  I got going a little earlier again the next day, and after having gravity work as my worst enemy the two previous days it was my best friend for the most part into Antigua.  I still had a few gradual climbs that were not too long and several downhills that helped me actually cover some distance.  I told myself that was a great mix to help me get into shape and not keep me stuck in one place.  I had already briefly passed through Antigua with Carly so I didn&#8217;t need to stay there long.  The one thing I really wanted to do though was climb Volcano Pacaya.  It is an active volcano with flowing lava you can get really close to and roast marshmellows.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">I arrived too late to climb the volcano that night so I decided to do it the next day.  I wandered around the old streets for the rest of the evening and the following morning before bording the shuttle to the volcano.  After almost not being able to go on account of some confusion with the booking agency, I ran into some guys I hung out with in San Pedro doing the same climb.  The climb was not too strenous, but it included some pretty amazing fews of the surrounding country not to mention the volcano itself.  When we got near the lava I started to realize how unsafe this journey was.  Once again there are no safety measures what so ever around highly dangerous activities, and I really like it that way.  If I do something stupid and fall into a river of lava and die, that is my fault.  There are no papers to sign or railing to keep you from the natural beauty of what you are doing.  The one time when I did feel genuinely unsafe was when we were all walking near the lava and I heard a cracking sound.  Suddenly a ridge that had people on it not five seconds before collapsed.  But it only fell about two feet and it didn&#8217;t have flowing lava underneath it like I thought so I told myself I was just being paranoid.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">The lava itself was a pretty impressive sight, and as I mentioned the heat was intense.  A few people had their shoes slightly melt.  After a treacherous walk down I got myself the last good night of sleep I would have in a while.  The hostal had quality, free breakfast included in the price.  There was no way I could turn that down, but it made for another late start.  Fortunately, gravity was once again my friend on this day and I decended through a magnificent pass between a pair of smoking volcanoes.  I made incredible time until I hit the Pacific highway.  I then had more incredible riding through the lowlands.  I was starting to remember why I like this.  I was making good time so I figured I would just ride until sunset and then start to look for a place to sleep.  It didn&#8217;t really make much difference because I was absolutely in the middle of nowhere.  Finally daylight forced me to a stop.  I asked around for a place to camp, but I was repeatedly pointed to a group of cheap hotel rooms.  Since this wasn&#8217;t really a town where I could ask the police, firefighters, or friendly shop owner, but a highway junction that a handfull of truckers stop at, I was a little short on options.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">I eventually ended up staying in the worst room I will ever stay in for the rest of my life.  I told myself at the time that I could put up with it, but in retrospect if I ever come across something like that again, it is worth the extra cash to stay in a place where I am not worried about my organs being harvested.  I felt awful the next morning, but the good thing was it was easy to get up and leave that place.  I rode to the border of El Salvador, which was only about 20 kms away.  I stopped at a gas station to spend the rest of my quetzales and when I was about to ride again I realized I had a flat tire.  This is the first on the new set of tires I got in Villahermosa.  Right after swapping tubes, I ran into another cyclist.  His name is Pedro and he is riding from Merida in Mexico to Panama.  He is from Spain and although he doesn&#8217;t speak much English his Spanish is pretty darn good and there are a lot of advantages to traveling with a fluent speaker.  Unfortunately, I have had a lot of trouble communicating with him.  First of all, my Spanish was never all that great and now it is really rusty.  Also, being from Spain he speaks differently from all the other people around here.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">We didn&#8217;t ride all that far past the border.  I kinda developed a stomach ache and didn&#8217;t feel good at all.  I suddenly started to slow down a lot.  We made it about 40 kms past the border before we stopped at a town.  I went to sleep before the sunset and woke up late in the evening feeling much better.  I felt good the next morning and we headed out early.  It was only about a 80 km day to La Libertad.  We more or less rode straight through it with just a couple short breaks.  The scenery was once again awesome.  It reminded me a little of northern California with cliffs going straight to the water.  When we got to La Libertad, the town was dead.  Normally it is a huge tourist spot with tons of surfers, but it was recently hit by a hurricane and the whole place didn&#8217;t have water.  Obviously this was just going to be a short stop, but I was starting to feel good at this point about riding and my overall fitness.  I still have a long way to go and a lot of improvement is needed in my condition and language skills, but if life is really about inertia that I feel like I have finally started to get moving and things should be much better from here.</div>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Yo creo que este mundo me va quedando pequeño Se me hizo corta la vida se me hizo efímero el tiempo ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Yo creo que este mundo me va quedando pequeño<br />
Se me hizo corta la vida<br />
se me hizo efímero el tiempo<br />
La vida<br />
La vida se me hizo sumamente aburrida<br />
al conocer la diversidad de caminos<br />
que conducía a mundos desconocidos<br />
Lo tedioso del caso<br />
es que debo volver<br />
Volver<br />
Debo volver cada noche a resguardarme<br />
o el mundo me acabará.<br />
Se me hizo corto el tiempo<br />
se me hace débil el cuerpo<br />
pudiera, a veces, explotar en mil momentos<br />
que devendrían en miles de<br />
cosas que no son cosas en este mundo de cosas.<br />
Se me hizo tarde, lo sé<br />
Es vano volver a empezar<br />
Se me hizo miserable<br />
Veo que mi vida no concuerda con la velocidad actual<br />
No hay día que no piense<br />
que el calor me sofoca<br />
Pero el calor no quema mi tiempo.<br />
¿Lo enfría?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Comunicado De Alumnos del Maestro Laurent Decol, Ante la Incompetencia del Sr. Julio Villarán]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Poeta Rojo.</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[San Salvador, 23 de noviembre de 2009. Comunicado Los abajo firmantes somos artistas escénicos y alu]]></description>
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<p>Comunicado</p>
<p>Los abajo firmantes somos artistas escénicos y alumnos del Taller de Mimo impartido por el maestro Laurent Decol, con el auspicio de la Embajada de Francia en El Salvador, del 16 al 20 del presente mes en las instalaciones de la Alianza Francesa de San Salvador. <!--more--></p>
<p>Dentro de las actividades a realizar por el maestro y como parte del Taller de Mimo, se programó una función del maestro Decol y alumnos del taller, en el Palacio de las Artes de Santa Tecla, el día jueves 19 de noviembre del corriente año, a las 7:30 p.m., actividad que fue publicitada a través de medios de comunicación radiales, televisivos, escritos y virtuales y para el cual, Alianza Francesa realizó la gestión del espacio con un mes de anticipación, sin que el director del Palacio, Sr. Julio Villarán, hiciera observaciones al respecto.</p>
<p>El día 19 nos hicimos presentes a las instalaciones del Palacio de las Artes de Santa Tecla, encontrando que en el espacio donde se haría la función, se estaba montando un evento de moda de la Universidad José Matías Delgado, programado en el mismo espacio, fecha y hora que nuestra presentación, informándonos los encargados del evento que el espacio se había solicitado en el mes de julio, por lo que esta actividad ya era del conocimiento del Sr. Villarán al momento de que Alianza Francesa solicitara el espacio.</p>
<p>Ante la ausencia del director del Palacio y luego de una espera de tres horas, las opciones que se nos presentaron para la solución del problema eran totalmente inviables, ya que no garantizaban las condiciones mínimas requeridas para realizar la presentación: condiciones de audio, ambiente y espacio adecuado para actores y público, por lo que la presentación tuvo que ser cancelada.</p>
<p>Como artistas nacionales, no es la primera vez que se tienen problemas de choque de horarios y espacios en eventos programados en el Palacio de las Artes de Santa Tecla, sin embargo esperábamos que por ser este un evento internacional, auspiciado por el cuerpo diplomático, este tipo de problemas no se presentarían de nuevo, dejando muy mal vista la imagen de la ciudad de Santa Tecla y de nuestro país. Deploramos la ineficiencia y desconocimiento del Sr. Julio Villarán, director del Palacio de las Artes de Santa Tecla, en temas de gestión cultural y le responsabilizamos directamente de la suspensión de la actividad.</p>
<p>Es lamentable que, habiendo pocos espacios para el desarrollo de las artes escénicas en nuestro país, un espacio como el Palacio de las Artes, pierda su credibilidad y aliados entre el gremio escénico nacional, debido a los malos manejos de su director. Por lo tanto, pedimos de la manera más respetuosa, en pro del desarrollo del Palacio de las Artes y de las artes escénicas nacionales, que la Alcaldía de Santa Tecla tome cartas en el asunto para que cesen estos problemas, que de persistir, hará que se pierda cada vez más el interés de los artistas por apoyar ese espacio.</p>
<p>Participantes del Taller de Mimo:<br />
Alicia Chong. Actriz independiente.<br />
Ana María Forero. Actriz y productora. La Jirafa Naranja.<br />
Carlos David Álvarez Rivera. Actor independiente.<br />
Carolina Escamilla. Actriz y titiritera. Abracadabra Títeres<br />
Danny Portillo. Actor. Grupo Cuentatrapos.<br />
David Fajardo Bolaños. Actor y mimo independiente.<br />
Emmety Pleitez. Actriz. Grupo de teatro Célula.<br />
Graciela Guido. Actriz independiente.<br />
Jennifer Valiente. Actriz y directora. TIET<br />
José Alejandro Lemus. Actor. TESS.<br />
José Carlos Ramos. Teatro Capulesco.<br />
Lorena Saavedra. Actriz independiente.<br />
Marlen Argueta. Actriz. TESS.<br />
Pamela Palenciano. Actriz. La Cocina teatro.<br />
Roberto Carbajal. Actor y mimo independiente.<br />
Sergio Cortez. Actor. Elenco de teatro UCA.<br />
Verónica Saraí Casco Díaz. Actriz independiente.</p>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Poeta Rojo.</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Tres Años de Conciencia Rasta]]></title>
<link>http://observadorjuvenil.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/tres-anos-de-conciencia-rasta/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Poeta Rojo.</dc:creator>
<guid>http://observadorjuvenil.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/tres-anos-de-conciencia-rasta/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Por  Martin Díaz. Observador Juvenil/Kaos en la Red. “En la radio no había reggae y durante nueve me]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><!-- 		@page { margin: 2cm } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><em><strong><a href="http://observadorjuvenil.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/reggae.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2992" title="reggae" src="http://observadorjuvenil.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/reggae.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="160" /></a>Por  Martin Díaz.<br />
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<p><em><strong>Observador<span style="color:#ff6600;"> </span></strong></em><span style="color:#ff6600;"><em><strong>Juvenil</strong></em></span><em><strong>/</strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Kaos </strong></span></em><strong>en la Red.</strong></p>
<p>“<span style="font-family:Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">En la radio no había reggae y durante nueve meses trabaje en el proyecto&#8230;creo que el reggae me cambio la vida, en el sentido que me hizo una persona con mas conciencia y cambio mi percepción del mundo” Ana Vilanova.<!--more--></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Todo inicio un sábado en la noche, una tras otra fueron llagando las llamadas, y sin publicidad rompimos récord de audiencia en esa primer noche. “Muchos de los que nos escucharon por primera vez esa noche nos han seguido domingo a domingo, y no hay domingo que llame alguien y nos diga que es primera vez que escucha el programa y que le gusta&#8230;.la gente nos apoya y las bandas saben que esta es su casa” afirmo satisfecha la joven radialista. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Para Ana Vilanova, conductora de Rasta, el Reggae representa la conciencia social que todo joven debe tener, la cual durante tres largos años ha llevado a todo El Salvador junto a un grupo de buenos amigos que desde el inicio le apoyaron. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Desde el comienzo, visionarios del reggae nacional como Carlangas de los Tachos y Victor Montes de SalvaReggae apoyaron el proyecto de Rasta, que desde hace tres años apoya a grupos nacionales, así como tantos otros esfuerzos, uno de ellos Resistencia Musical, que actualmente impulsa la aprobación de una ley para la musica nacional; ley que puede dar un giro en cuanto al apoyo del gobierno hacia los artistas nacionales de todas las disciplinas.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Como en todo proyecto impulsado por jóvenes, el apoyo financiero ha sido poco, y pocas marcas han apoyado el programa, pues aunque marque altos porcentajes de audiencia las empresas siempre mantienen un temor por el estigma dado al reggae. Según Ana, “el programa crece gracias a las llamadas de la gente que cada domingo escuchan y fortalecen el programa”.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Para el futuro de Rasta podemos esperar un giro hacia Jamaica, pues llega la hora de difundir mas las raíces del raggae y de ir expandiendo el conocimiento del reggae hacia otras tendencias. Pero lo que tenemos claro es que el movimiento reggae en El Salvador se ve cada día mas fortalecido y parte de este fortalecimiento se le debe al esfuerzo de  Rasta.</span></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[02 Yo te amaba]]></title>
<link>http://vtacius.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/02-yo-te-amaba/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>vtacius</dc:creator>
<guid>http://vtacius.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/02-yo-te-amaba/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yo te amaba te quería te quise demasiado quizás Quizá te quise más de lo que te debí querer Yo desee]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Yo te amaba<br />
te quería<br />
te quise demasiado quizás<br />
Quizá te quise más de lo que te debí<br />
querer<br />
Yo desee con vos ciertas cosas<br />
que no puedo nombrar<br />
por eso<br />
de que algunas feministas digan<br />
que amistad<br />
entre hombre y mujer no existe.</p>
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