News (Noticias) Tagged ‘Spain’

Ana de la Reguera and Juan Manuel Bernal Appear in
Miami Beach on Monday, August 18
New York City on Tuesday, August 19
Los Angeles on Thursday, August 21

Series from Mexico debuts Wednesday, September 10 at 9PM on HBO Latino

The Mexican drama series “Capadocia”, starring Ana de la Reguera, comes to the U.S. on HBO Latino on Wednesday, September 10 at 9PM ET. HBO Latino, HBO’s dedicated Spanish-language channel, rolls out the series’ U.S. debut with a national red carpet tour in Miami, NYC and LA, with additional screenings in Houston and Chicago. “Capadocia” will air in Spanish every Wednesday through December 3 and on HBO On Demand with English subtitles.

Produced in January 2007 by HBO Latin America, “Capadocia” is set in a fictional women’s prison in Mexico City. Corruption runs rampant as prison rights attorney Teresa Lagos (Dolores Heredia) fights for a humane rehabilitation program, while corporate shill Federico Marquez (Juan Manuel Bernal) schemes to privatize the prison and use the women as cheap manual labor.

The series features Ana de la Reguera (Nacho Libre, Paraiso Travel), Alejandro Camacho (Zurdo), Juan Manuel Bernal (El callejon de los milagros), Dolores Heredia (Santitos, Al final del dia), Cecilia Suarez (Spanglish) and was directed by Javier Patron (Fuera del cielo), Carlos Carrera (El crimen del Padre Amaro) and Pedro Pablo Ybarra. The series was produced by Luis F. Peraza, Epigmenio Ibarra and Veronica Velasco and executive produced by Andres Tagliavini, with an original script by Leticia Lopez, Carmen Madrid, Guillermo Rios, Laura Sosa, and Silvia Pasternac.

“HBO has built a reputation for offering ground-breaking original programming on our main channel. It is in that tradition that we are proud to bring a powerful and high-quality series like ‘Capadocia’ to our Spanish-speaking audience in the U.S. on HBO Latino,” said Lucinda Martinez-Desir, VP, Market Development, HBO.

National Red Carpet Tour
HBO Latino teamed up with People en Espanol, the top-selling Hispanic magazine in the U.S., to bring the first episode of “Capadocia” to consumers nationwide. Ana de la Reguera, Juan Manuel Bernal and other celebrities headline the screening events in Miami, New York and Los Angeles. Through Monday, August 11, moviegoers ages 18 and over may sign up for two free screening passes at www.peopleenespanol.com/alcine .

The “Capadocia” Red Carpet Tour kicks off simultaneously in Miami Beach on Monday, August 18 at 6:30 PM ET at The Colony Theater, 1040 Lincoln Road, and in Houston at 6:30 PM Central the Landmark River Oaks Theater, 2009 West Gray.

On Tuesday, August 19 at 6:30 PM EST, the cast travels to the New York screening at the DGA Theater at 110 W. 57th St. They land in Los Angeles on Thursday, August 21 for the final celebrity screening at the ArcLight Theater at 6360 W. Sunset Blvd at 6:30 PM Pacific, while Chicago audiences gather at the Landmark Century Theatre at 6:30 PM Central at 2828 N. Clark St.

About HBO Latino
HBO Latino is a dedicated Spanish-language premium channel that delivers compelling and relevant programming to the U.S. Latino market. Exclusive to the channel are the regular U.S. premieres of Spanish-language series, films, and documentaries acquired from North America, Latin America and Spain, as well as top music videos and original short-form programming. Additionally, HBO Latino offers the best Hollywood movies and HBO original programming from the network’s main channel in Spanish. Visit www.hbolatino.com for more information and scheduling. “

MIAMI, FL – August 3, 2008 – GolTV, the only live bilingual channel delivering 24/7 soccer, regrets Dish Network’s decision to discontinue carriage of GolTV’s unmatched international soccer coverage effective Friday afternoon, August 1. Dish Network’s loss of GolTV was the result of its decision to impose unreasonable contract demands and terms on the independent and privately-owned minority network, GolTV.

Millions of DISH subscribers have lost GolTV’s exclusive, live from London, TV coverage of the Emirates Cup. This decision also falls on the verge of 2010 World Cup qualifying matches and season kick-offs of GolTV’s exclusive TV coverage of the Spain’s La Liga on August 31 and Germany’s Bundesliga on August 15.

The satellite giant decided to remove GolTV, from its America’s Top 250 and Dish Latino programming packages. Consistently ranked in the top five Hispanic satellite and cable-delivered networks, Spanish and English-speaking soccer enthusiasts have been calling the South Florida-based soccer programming network over the weekend to voice their stunned reaction by the sudden and unprecedented loss of one of their favorite sports networks.

“Dish Network has demonstrated total disregard for independent networks, the millions of soccer fans we represent, and minority-owned businesses by this action,” said Rodrigo Lombello, GolTV COO. “We urge upset Dish viewers to contact us or Dish to voice their concerns.”

Dish Network subscribers can take action by emailing GolTV at info@goltv.tv .

About GolTV

GolTV is where soccer lives in the US 24/7, 365 days of the year. Founded in 2003 and led by Chief Executive Officer and former international fútbol superstar, Enzo Francescoli, GolTV is the only bilingual US soccer network and the first channel conceived by professional athletes. GolTV is the only all-soccer network with unsurpassed exclusive soccer broadcast rights and an unmatched programming mix that speaks the universal language of soccer. The network brings viewers action from some of the world’s most competitive leagues and elite tournaments, offering over 8,000 hours of soccer action each year and more unique soccer matches than any other network. For more information, visit www.goltv.tv.

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A new television web channel has just emerged. It is Lingus.tv (www.lingus.tv), a channel dedicated to teaching Spanish as a foreign language. Lingus.tv is fundamentally distinguished for basing its teaching method on a sitcom, its own production, making the core issues of its teaching model funny, entertaining and amusing.

“Our aim is to promote interest in studying Spanish in a pleasant, attractive way, based on the concept of leisure,” affirms Sergio Gazeau (www.lasbuenaslenguas.com), founder of Lingus.tv. “The Internet has become the principal leisure tool of society, especially among young people, and our challenge is to have fun whilst learning”, he adds.

Following the trend marked by Internet, the Lingus.tv teaching system is based on a philosophy of self-service, where the users have a video library of contents available classified in levels (beginner, intermediate and advanced) labeled depending on the themes they cover and the linguistic skills they teach. Among these themes we can find chapters like “Mi rutina” or “Pacocinando”, where one of its characters, Paco, shows the user how to cook a typical Spanish dish: the Spanish potato omelette, all marked in a frame of humour.

Each episode of the series will come with its Spanish sub-titles and will last approximately two minutes. Video is the core to the education process and includes its respective teaching material: complete transcript of the script, English translation and a selection of notes that introduce grammatical and cultural concepts.

In the words of its founder, “The project, that is filmed in different parts of Spain, aims at being something more than just teaching Spanish, become a true window display of the culture and life style in Spain.” With this twofold objective, the chapters that appear on the web “will gradually not only introduce grammatical or semantic concepts, but also sayings, proverbs and cultural elements specific to our country. We want foreigners to learn man-in-the-street Spanish and make them gradually assimilate our culture and form of communicating with one another,” he concludes.

Lingus.tv broadcasts new episodes of its sitcom every Tuesday and Thursday and in the next few months, it will extend its offer of contents to include new programmes on its programming grid.

For more information, please consult our web site, www.lingus.tv, or contact us on:

LingusTV — Communication Dept.

hola@lingus.tv - Tel.: + 34 93 697 57 78″

“should be compared to Bob Dylan, U2, or the Clash” - All Music Guide

“[Latin] music’s greatest statesmen… Los Tigres sell millions of records, regularly top Billboard’s Latin charts and draw tens of thousands of fans to stadiums… In short, they are among the most popular acts in Latin music today… …Los Tigres del Norte have been singing border stories for more than three decades” - New York Times

After Garnering The Best Norteño Album GRAMMY Award For The Second-Consecutive Year And Notching  Another #1 Album With Their Recently Released Album Raices (Roots), The Legendary Los Tigres Del Norte Continue Their Touring Tradition Of Bringing Multi-Hour Shows To The Mexican Immigrant Community Across The Country

LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE Will Perform At These Upcoming Tour Dates

8-02 Anaheim, CA-Anaheim Convention Center           9-21 St Paul, MN-St Paul Armory
8-03 Ventura, CA-Ventura Fairgrounds                        9-27 Los Angeles, CA-Los Angeles Sports Arena
8-08 Santa Rosa, CA-Fairgrounds                               9-28 Denver, CO-Pepsi Center
8-09 Salt Lake City, UT                                               10-04 Dallas, TX-AA Center
8-10 Lemoore, CA-Tachi Palace Casino                      10-05 Houston, TX-Toyota Center
8-11-to 8-27 – Tour of Spain                                      10-25 San Diego, CA-San Diego Sports Arena
8-29 Portland, OR-Expo Center                                   10-26 Sacramento, CA-Arco Arena
8-30 Tacoma, WA-Tacoma Dome                               11-01 Laredo, TX-Laredo Entertainment Center

8-31 Reno, NV-Fairgrounds                                        11-02 Mc Allen, TX-Dodge Arena

9-07 San Jose, CA-HP Pavilion                                   11-26 Austin, TX-Palmer Convention Center

9-13 Phoenix, AZ-Radio Festival                                  11-27 Forward, TX-Far West Rodeo

9-14 Las Vegas, NV-Thomas & Mack Center             11-28 Oklahoma, OK-Far West Rodeo

9-19 Des Moines, IO-Val Air Ballroom                        11-29 Tyler, TX-Far West Rodeo

9-20 Omaha, NB-Omaha Convention Center

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“the godfathers of norteno music, Los Tigres have crossed many borders in their career…the group updated the traditional conjunto sound and turned it into an international phenomenon…their music has helped to break down barriers between cultures, generations and even countries, particularly between Mexico and the United States …long revered as the voice of the Latino immigrant community, Los Tigres spends 10 months on the road… Its ever-expanding fan base inspired the Grammy-winning group’s latest disc, “Raices”… when Los Tigres take the stage, they celebrate these roots but also the ongoing saga of the immigrant experience.” - Chicago Sun-Times

“the most popular Norteño group in the world… these grand men of music have taken their message of hope and hardship beyond the borderland and into millions of hearts throughout the United States and Mexico.” –Dan Rather

“norteño icons Los Tigres del Norte [are] the most influential regional Mexican group in the United States… Los Tigres are not just another popular musical act… Instead, they’re widely viewed as the voice of the people, capable of making you dance to a cumbia one instant, [or] weep the next with a woeful immigrant’s tale” –Billboard

“Singing Stories From Lives Lived Far Away From Home…Los Tigres del Norte have perfected a ground-level symbiosis with their fans. … Their show on Saturday night, was mega-size: music all night and far into the morning hours… Los Tigres playing 42 songs, finally ending at 3 a.m… each time Los Tigres bit into the groove of a two-beat ranchera, sustenance was served in jolts… the band’s [leader] Jorge Hernández…was mesmerizing”

- New York Times- “Arts & Leisure” COVER – Concert Review

“Los Tigres del Norte has reinvented Mexican music… Every record sells a million copies… Its logo is as well known in Mexican communities as Coca-Cola’s… Los Tigres [are] the most perceptive chroniclers of the Mexican-American experience. In song, they reflect its most personal feelings, and [take] the side of millions of immigrants who are voiceless on both sides of the border… following a Los Tigres concert schedule is to discover all the places Mexicans live … Their songs remain one of the clearest windows into the immigrant soul.” – Los Angeles Times

There is a multiplicity of journals originating in Spain and the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (SSLAC) in the health sciences of relevance to the fields of epidemiology and public health. While the subject matter of epidemiology in Spain shares many features with its neighbours in Western Europe, many aspects of epidemiology in Latin America are particular to that region.

There are also distinctive theoretical and philosophical approaches to the study of epidemiology and public health arising from traditions such as the Latin American social medicine movement, of which there may be limited awareness. A number of online bibliographic databases are available which focus primarily on health sciences literature arising in Spain and Latin America, the most prominent being Literatura Latinoamericana en Ciencias de la Salud (LILACS) and LATINDEX.

Some such as LILACS also extensively index grey literature. As well as in Spanish, interfaces are provided in English and Portuguese.

Abstracts of articles may also be provided in English with an increasing number of journals beginning to publish entire articles written in English. Free full text articles are becoming accessible, one of the most comprehensive sources being the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO).

There is thus an extensive range of literature originating in Spain and SSLAC freely identifiable and often accessible online, and with the potential to provide useful inputs to the study of epidemiology and public health provided that any reluctance to explore these resources can be overcome. In this article we provide an introduction to such resources.

Author: John R Williams, Annick Borquez and Maria Gloria Basanez
Credits/Source: Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2008, 5:10″

The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC), the leading advocate for the more than 2.5 million Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States, is pleased to announce that Hilda Rayas will serve as Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the organization. Rayas brings to the USHCC more than 25 years of documented success in global leadership, minority business advocacy and executive level management.

“We are very pleased to have Hilda join our team,” said USHCC Chairman David C. Lizárraga. “Her wide ranging experience with organizational management, strategic planning, and oversight, along with her deep commitment to the Hispanic community will be an exceptional asset to our organization. She will play a vital role as we continue to refine the focus of our organization, strengthen our structure, and develop exciting new partnerships.”

Most recently, Rayas served as Director of the Interracial Council for Business Opportunities (ICBO) in New York. Prior to that, she was the Vice President of Sales and Community Outreach for the New Jersey-based Liberty Science Center, where she managed organizational objectives ranging from revenue generation to streamlining operations.

Her many professional achievements include: obtaining $8B in international consumer long distance revenue in a highly competitive Mexico market, managing budgets of up to $160M and a work force of 5,000 employees, and designing and developing an integrated $135M marketing plan for Puerto Rico while strengthening client relations in a competitive Latino market. In almost ten years of working for AT&T, Rayas also navigated complex political situations in both the USA and Latin America/Caribbean resulting in the company’s entry into Spain, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Mexico, and Puerto Rico.

“Rayas is a perfect example of the strong Latina leadership that is so prominent in our Hispanic business community today,” Lizáarraga continued. “She joins our organization during an exciting time as we gear up for the 29th Annual Convention and Business Expo in Sacramento, California, this September. I couldn’t be more confident that she will help lead and strengthen our events, programs and initiatives in order to better serve our constituents.”

“The political landscape is rapidly changing and now is the time for immense progress in this arena,” said Hilda Rayas. “I am passionate and excited about the key role Hispanics will continue to play in America’s future. I am honored to be of service to this organization to help move this necessary and important agenda to the forefront of mainstream America.”

As COO of the organization, Rayas will have dual responsibility for the financial management and all internal operations of the Chamber as well as oversight of the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

Rayas was born in Ciudad Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico, and raised in El Paso, Texas. Rayas has been appointed to various leadership positions for the United States Hispanic Advocacy Association (USHAA), Hudson County Chamber of Commerce and the Hispanic B2B Committee. She is a graduate of numerous Executive Level Education Programs including: University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, Dartmouth University, and Harvard University. “