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Foto tomada por MaoP en la cena de fin de año de LIDSOL el pasado viernes 22 de diciembre, en la casa de César, en Xochimilco.

These are my ten wishes for 2007. Since Santa didn't arrive in this part of the world, I think I'm asking this to the Three Wise Men (in spite of they were brought here by the Spanish catolicism, but hey):

1. Dignity, land and respect to the Mexican indigenous groups.
2. Return and good health for Commander in Chief, Fidel Castro.
3. Strongest antineoliberalism in the Latin American region.
4. Right wing oppression brought down in Bolivia.
5. Good year socially, economically and politically to Nicaragua with its new hope.
6. An even better year in Cuban trades; they were the best growing economy in Latin America by exporting to South America and China.
7. Stop to the free trade agreement and military bases with the US in Ecuador.
8. Peaceful solution to the Colombia-Ecuador border conflict.
9. Democracy established in some of those countries where it's more needed, like Central America.
10. More social successful programs in Venezuela.

And my bonus one:

• Peace from Río Grande all the way down to Tierra del Fuego.

Hugo Chávez wins "Person of the Year" poll … Time magazine ignores result

. More on Spanish here and here.

On his recent (and first) visit to Ecuador, Richard Stallman interviewed with elected president Rafael Correa. Stallman spoke about the benefits and advantages that free software would bring to Correa's administration. Some of the Ecuadorian free software community members were present and they reported that Correa listened to Stallman for like 20 minutes without replying. Then they agreed on freedom issues and had a conversation where they agreed on everything. After that, president Rafael Correa asked his assistants if Ecuador could migrate to free software (on being viable) and they replied that of course, that'd be a wise choice.

These are, of course, excelent news for Ecuador itself and Latin America! Congratulations yuntas!

Leftist Rafael Correa won on a 2-round election held on Oct 15th and Nov 20th. He will get into office on January 5th.

We

'll be attending The Killers' concert tonight. I'm not completely fan of their synthesized-rock-indie music, but she likes them so much and she made me dig their last album, Sam's Town, like a thousand times in the car; so I acceded and bought the tickets online. She was even jelaous of a friend who is also attending, heh

I wasn't happy at all since they are still a more or less new band, they only have two albums released and prices for tickets were high as hell (ironic), but her surprise smile worth it, it definitively does.

(Translated from my same post in Spanish)

A few days ago, McDonald published a cartoon on the end of the dictator Pinochet.

FINOCHET (fin meaning "end"). Damn heart, it had to be on the left.

Yesterday, fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet died in the Military Hospital in Santiago, after heart and lung diseases, being 91 years old. Now, current president Michelle Bachelet, a moderate socialist, in case Pinochet is given State memorials, could be attending the ceremony (in a predominantly conservative country as Chile), even after she was tortured and persecuted under the dictatorship and his father was murdered under the regimen, after serving Salvador Allende' government.

Shitty life, huh?

Viva Chile!, just as the ironman stated.

Hace unos pocos días, McDonald publicó un cartón sobre el fin del dictador Pinochet.

El día de hoy, el dictador fascista Augusto Pinochet muere en el Hospital Militar de la capital chilena, luego de padecimientos en el corazón, de 91 años. Ahora Michelle Bachelet, actual presidenta socialista moderada de Chile, en caso de que se le den funerales de Estado a Pinochet, podría llegar a asistir (en un país predominantemente conservador como Chile), aún cuando ella misma estuvo presa durante la dictadura y su padre fue asesinado bajo ese régimen, luego de servir al gobierno de Salvador Allende.

Qué mierda es a veces la vida, ¿no?

I've enjoyed reading Richard Gott' article named Latin America is preparing to settle accounts with its white settler elite, where he goes deeply on how the recent political movements in the region has been marked more on lineage and classism than in anything else. Read the article in English here, or in Spanish, here (thanks to Rebelión).

El 8 de diciembre de 1980, John Lennon fue asesinado por Mark David Chapman afuera del Dakota, su residencia en Nueva York. En los últimos años de su vida, John e irónicamente Yoko, protestaron contra la guerra y se convirtieron en mensajeros de paz en el mundo. Qué cosas que a veintiséis años de su muerte, sus ideologías antiviolencia sean aún vigentes e igual de ignoradas por guerras, hambre y miseria en el mundo.

Para conmemorar la vida y obra de John, el Círculo Beatle, nos regala hoy un podcast dedicado especialmente a John (la semana pasada fue uno dedicado a George, por los cinco años de su muerte). Aún cuando soy un ferviente aficionado del Círculo Beatle, la locución de Tere Chacón no me gusta del todo (es una locutora muy cuadrada, correcta, muy articulada, que a veces llega a ser ligeramente aturdidora ), sin embargo, el trabajo que depositan en el audio, es muy bueno y digno de escucharse.
Les invito a escuchar el podcast, semana a semana, pero aún más, el del día de hoy. He aquí la información desplegada en el sitio del Círculo Beatle:

El Círculo Beatle le presenta al maestro John Lennon su admiración y su respeto celebrando su vida y transmitiendo las pruebas de que John no estuvo lejos de la música a partir de 1976.

Quédate con nosotros y disfruta intensamente de lo mejor de los demos que el fundador de The Beatles grabó en la intimidad de su departamento del edificio Dakota de Nueva York y en los cuales nos deja ver que su gran talento y sensibilidad jamás dejaron de brillar.

¡Incorpórate al círculo!

En este programa hablamos de

Beatles Radio México
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- Love

Presentación del programa

Recopilaciones – Los demos de John en el Dakota
- Grow Old With Me
- Illusions
- One Of The Boys (Take 2)
- Baby Make Love To You
- Mirror Mirror (On The Wall)
- Don't Be Crazy
- You Saved My Soul
- Dear John
- Across The River
- She's A Friend Of Dorothy
- Now And Then
- Gone From This Place
- Help Me To Help Myself
- Free As A Bird
- Real Love (Take 1)
- Life Begins At 40

Salida