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Latin Women Rock in Music Scene
Ladies break from
glamour mold
(AP) — Anyone concerned that traditional
machismo would stifle Latin American women
who want to rock need look no further than
Colom bia's Andrea Echeverri and Mexican
songstress Ely Guerra.
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Their headliner performances at the recent
Latin Alternative Music Conference dem on
strate that Latina musicians have broken free of
the glam our mold that still shapes the images
of many female performers.
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The Latina rockers evoked a panoply of
images: Fringed ponchos and pigtails, elegance
with a retro-diva afro. Their videos and lyrics
did the same.
The fifth annual conference drew fans, per
formers and industry insiders to a series of
panels, exhibitions and concerts in Los Ange
les, New York and Toronto.
Echeverri and Guerra, who performed in a
seaside night concert on the Santa Monica
Pier, are part of a generation of Latina musi
cians - among them, the gravelly voiced rocker
Alejandra Guzman, the accordion-wielding
Julieta Venegas and the seemingly spirit-chan
neling Lila Downs - who express themselves
with a freedom that shatters old ideas of how
women “should” behave on stage.
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“ We are artists with the heart and mind open,”
Echeverri said. "I believe that machismo is some
thing from, perhaps, past generations, or o f
people who still have their minds a bit closed.”
Guerra, 32, says it was easier to find artistic
acceptance in the United States than in Mexico.
“The people didn’t really understand what 1
was offering when I first began to do this profes
sionally,” she said. “And when 1 came to the
United States, well, oddly enough, it was ac
cepted from the start.”
While Guerra says she didn’t grow up think
ing ot herself as beautiful, saying her mother
and sisters are far prettier, her looks were som e
thing of an initial obstacle in the industry.
“They doubted my professional ability,”
she said. "In a way, it was a challenge I had to
face and carry until I could feel secure in myself,
and until everyone else realized that physical
Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha speaks with the
media after he announced at a news conference that a powerful
drug gang leader was arrested at a house in Mexicali, across
the border from Calexico, Calif. (AP photo)
Arellano Felix o f Tijuana.
Macedo said Higuera split with
the Arellano Felix gang late last
year to join Zambada, and that split
(A P )— Though Sergio Sanchez
came to the Uni ted States fi ve years
ago, h e's struggled to learn English
and perform academically. Hisolder
brothers, who immigrated when
they were young children, are hav
ing a much easier time.
“It’s difficult to pronounce the
words, and people laugh,” said
Sanchez, 17. “If I were younger, it
would be easier.”
The difference between Sanchez
and his brothers’ experiences is
common, according to a study re
leased last week on im m igrant
youth by the Public Policy Institute
o f California. It looked at U.S. D e
partment of Labor data on im m i
grants ages 13 to 24, focusing on
Hispanics who make up the m ajor
ity o f this group.
The study of more than 11 ,(XX)
immigrant youths showed H ispan
ics who came to the United States
at a young age assimilated quickly
and demonstrated academic and
English fluency levels sim ilar to
native-bom Hispanic children. But
triggered a series of bloody con
frontations between the two gangs
in the Tijuana area.
those who came in their teens face
many more problems.
O f those who immigrated before
age 10, 33 percent had attended
college, compared to 4 1 percent of
native-born Hispanic youths. O f
those who arrived later, only 13
percent had attended college.
“We are doing something right
because kids who come under the
age of 10 are doi ng almost as we 11 as
their native-born counterparts,”
said Laura Hill, the study’s author.
“T hey're in school, and that seems
to be associated with good out
com es.”
Mexican
Flag Draws
Protest
(A P ) — C ritic ism o v e r a
M ex ican flag h u n g in a D en
v er c la ssro o m has led sch o o l
o ffic ia ls to c re a te a p o licy
th at say s the d isp lay o f fo r
eig n b an n ers m u st be te m p o
rary an d re la te d to w h at is
b ein g ta u g h t in class.
O ff ic ia ls at N o rth H ig h
S c h o o l, w h e re th e stu d e n t
p o p u la tio n is 84 p erc en t H is
p anic, said they receiv ed co m
p la in ts o v e r a p h o to g rap h in
th e R o ck y M o u n tain N ew s
tak en on M o n d ay , th e first
d ay o f sch o o l.
T h e p h o to sh o w ed a M e x i
can flag d isp la y e d in a c la ss
ro o m n ex t to a U .S. flag.
A n d rew F ox, w ho teach es
E n g lish to S p a n ish -sp e ak in g
stu d e n ts, said he w an ted his
L atin o stu d e n ts to feel m ore
w elc o m e .
S c h o o l s u p e rin te n d e n t
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p e o p l e c o m p la i n e d th e r e
sh o u ld n ev e r be an y n o n -U .S .
flag s d isp lay e d in the sch o o ls.
In re sp o n se to th e c o m
p la in ts , sc h o o l p rin c ip a l
D arlen e L eD o u x rem o v ed the
M ex ican flag an d an o th e r one
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Hundreds of homeless people,
including women and children,
sleep on Sao Paulo’s streets, ac
cording to city officials.
During a demonstration held in
front of Sao Paulo’s Roman C atho
lic cathedral to protest the killings.
Mayor Marta Suplicy decreed three
days of official mourning.
“I call on all of you to join forces
to defend the homeless,” Suplicy
told a crowd estimated by police at
about 5,(XX) people. ”We must put
an end to this distressful situa
tion."
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Groups join forces to protect city’s poor
The attacks were similar to those
last Thursday in which four hom e
less men were bludgeoned to death
and six were injured seriously,
Pereira said. All the victims have
been 40-50 years old.
One o f the six injured died in the
hospital last Sunday, city spokes
man Jose Roberto M ello said.
Police said they were investigat
ing whether the attacks were a set
tling o f accounts among the hom e
less themselves or the work of vigi
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Homeless Killed in Brazil
(AP) — Another homeless per
son was found bludgeoned to death
in Rio de Janeiro, South Am erica’s
biggest city last weekend, the sixth
such killing in Sao Paulo within the
past several days, police said.
Four other homeless people -
three men and a woman - were seri
ously injured in sim ilar attacks
shortly before dawn Sunday.
“The attackers used iron bars or
wooden clubs to beat the woman
repeatedly in the head and face
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Mexican songstress Ely Guerra is receiving world-wide acclaim for her performance at
the Latin Alternative Music Conference.
Drug Gang Suspect Caught
(AP) — An alleged leader of a
powerful drug gang was caught
near the border with California,
Mexican officials announced M on
day, calling it a blow to a syndicate
they say is smuggling nearly half
the illegal drugs crossing the U.S.-
M exico frontier.
G ilberto Higuera G uerrero was
arrested before dawn Sunday at a
house in the border city o f Mexicali,
Attorney General Rafael M acedo
de la Concha said at a news confer
ence.
He described H iguera as the
"principal operator” for drug boss
Ismael “El M ayo"Zambada, whose
Mazatlan-based gang is said to be
increasing its control o f drug traf
ficking along M exico’s western
border with the United States.
“H e’spractically a legend in drug
trafficking,” Macedo said.
The U.S. State Department last
year offered a $2 million reward for
Higuera’s capture, although that
was well short o f the $5 million it
offered for his alleged bosses at the
time - brothers Javier and Eduardo
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