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Posts tagged "Chile"

For 33 Chilean miners, hope never dies

The area above ground where the relatives of the 33 Chilean miners waited for them more than two months is called Campo Esperanza, or Camp Hope. They never lost it. And as they began pulling out the miners early Wednesday there were shouts of thanks, tears and hugs. As of this posting the 17th man... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
October 13, 2010 at 12:11 pm
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Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa is the fifth Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Who else should win?

Mario Vargas Llosa courtesy nobelprize.org Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday. The Swedish Academy said he won “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.” Vargas Llosa fuses art and politics. He unsuccessfully ran for president of Peru in... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
October 7, 2010 at 8:47 am
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Earthquake stirs thoughts of famous Chileans

We’ve all heard about Chile and the massive earthquake that may have shifted the earth’s axis and briefly shortened the life of the planet by milliseconds. We know that the Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said at first they didn’t need international aid but it’s become obvious that they do. And this week Secretary of State... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
March 4, 2010 at 3:42 pm
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Shakira is a sell out but she helps the children

Some of my friends told me I was too hard in a blog post I wrote earlier this week about the singer Shakira and her new album “She Wolf.“ Photo from the Barefoot Foundation I basically said the Colombian singer Shakira was a sell out for dying her hair blonde and using sex to sell... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
December 5, 2009 at 2:21 pm
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