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Latina Artist Featured at Onda Arte
Painter portrays world with surreal statements
I n s id e h e r p i c t o r i a l - l i t e r a r y
w orld, artist M arianela de la H oz
deals w ith the m aterial and the im
m aterial, the ord in ary and the e x
trao rdinary. She d ep icts the w ay
we live, love and d ream , hut alw ays
w ith m agical details, zoom orphism ,
strange p ro p o rtio n s and e x a g g e ra
tions. T he intellectu al level o f the
w ork is ex trao rd in ary hut the p u r
pose o f the artist is to en g ag e the
sp ectato r as a total bein g , p ro v o k
ing an em o tio n al response.
H er w ork w ill be d isp lay ed from
A ug. 25 to Sept. 27 at the O nda
A rte L atina/C ross C u rren ts G allery,
w ith an artist reception on A ug. 25
from 6 to 9 p.m .
She describes her art as “portraits
o f reality converted into fantastic
"Politically correct: Not even the devil swears
anymore."
El Salvador Sends
380 Soldiers to Iraq
(AP) - El Salvador
sent its fifth contingent
of 380 soldiers to Iraq
for humanitarian mis
sions last week, a move
that President Tony
Saca said was in the
same spirit as the coun
tries that helped El Sal
vador during its 12-
yearcivil war.
“El Salvador owes a
lot to the international
c o m m u n ity ,” Saca
said, just before planes
carrying the troops
too k o ff from the
Ilopango air base near
the capital.
“This country suf
fered war, suffered ter
rorism. and there were
a lot of peaceful orga
nizations that came to A Salvadoran Army soldier marches to
do humanitarian work, board a plane at a military base.
and that’s the reason (AP Photo)
why we are helping out
in Iraq,” Saca said.
ing and rebuilding schools, high
El Salvador is the only Latin ways, clinic, local roads and water
American country still participat system s.”
ing in the Iraq conflict.
El Salvador has been sending
Saca said the troops’ humanitar humanitarian troops to Iraq since
ian mission would include “build August 2003.
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(AP)- When Amaury Pi-Gonzalez
was a boy in Cuba, he would flip a
broom upside down and pretend to
call baseball games. Those days of
make-believe are long gone. The
sticks and straw have been replaced
by real microphones, and instead
of broadcasting fake games from
his front porch he now looks down
upon major league fields from his
radio booth.
For the past 30years, Pi-Gonzalez
has been living his dream. And,
lately, it’s been twice as fulfilling.
The 60-year-old Pi-Gonzalez
does Spanish play-by-play for two
teams - the Seattle Mariners and the
San Francisco Giants - and that
leads to lots of frequent flier miles.
“I know most of the pilots on
Alaska Airlines,” Pi-Gonzalez said.
O n a re c e n t w ee k e n d , Pi-
Gonzalez, who lives in Fremont,
Calif., was in San Francisco calling
Giants games. Then he flew to Se
attle to do broadcasts for the Mari
ners.
"The fact that he can do this dual
broadcasting job is incredible,” said
Marty Gonzalez, a weekend anchor
for KRON-TV in San Francisco and
a longtime admirer of Pi-Gonzalez.
“H e’s doing two different teams in
two different leagues, which means
he has to know every player in
major league baseball.”
Only a handful of announcers
have worked concurrently for two
major league teams, including leg
ends Jack Brickhouse and Harry
Caray.
By the time the season ends, Pi-
Gonzalez will have worked 8 1 home
games for the Mariners and 25 for
the Giants. Former San Francisco
infielderTito Fuentes takes his spot
when Pi-Gonzalez is in Seattle.
Randy Adamack, vice president
of communications for the Mari
ners, said that the feedback about
Pi-Gonzalez from fans has been very
positive.
“Misdelivery is exciting, and the
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Pi-Gonzalez recalled that when
e c cen tric O akland A ’s ow ner
Charlie Finley first hired him, he
sent a messenger to tell him to “go
ahead and broadcast the games in
Mexican."
After 17 years with the A ’s, Pi-
Gonzalez started doing play-by-
play for the Giants in 1994, and
began doing double duty with the
Giants and Mariners in 2003. In
Seattle, he is joined in the broad
cast booth by former Mariner Julio
Cruz.
Inhisbook, Pi-Gonzalez also will
tell o f his childhood years in Cuba,
when as a passionate young fan he
used that broom to emulate the
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sheets. “
Born in M ex ico in 1956, H oz
receiv ed her art deg ree from the
M etro p o litan U n iv ersity in M exico
C ity in 1978. S ince then, she has
e x h ib ite d in g ro u p and solo e x h ib i
tio n s th ro u g h o u t M exico, in V en
e zu ela. and in the U nited S tates.
2005 has been an esp e c ia lly busy
y e a r fo r her, w ith m ajor solo show s
in M exico and the U.S.
H oz c h o o se s egg tem p u ra as her
m edium b e c a u se the pain tin g te c h
nique p ro d u ces in ten se c o lo r and
d u rability. W hile oil p ain tin g s often
b eg in to c rack and y ellow w ithin a
few years, a p ro p e rly e x e c u te d egg
te m p u ra p a in te d can be ex p e c te d to
last fo r c e n tu rie s w ithout c rack in g
o r c h an g in g in color. In p o rtra y in g
the c o m p le x itie s o f o u r tro u b led
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voice and style o f legendary an
nouncer Rafael “Felo” Ramirez, who
broadcast Cuban W inter Profes
sional League baseball games for
many years.
He later collaborated with his
childhood hero in a 1998 playoff
game in the United States. Ramirez,
82, now calls games in Spanish for
the Florida Marlins.
One o f only four Cubans broad
casting in the major leagues, Pi-
Gonzalez was inducted last year
into the Cuban Sports Hall of Fame
in Miami, which he said was “the
thrill of a lifetime.”
Pi-G onzalez has interview ed
many great Latin American players
during his career, but he counts
Tony Perez, Fernando Valenzuela
and Jose Canseco as the most char
ismatic. But he said his most memo
rable interview was with a non-
Latin player, home run king Hank
Aaron.
The most thrilling moment in his
career came during the l989W orld
Series between the Giants and the
A ’s when a 7 .1 earthquake struck
the Bay Area before Game 3. He was
doing A ’s play-by-play for a San
Jose station.
“Tenemos un terrom oto,” he
shouted over the air. (“W e’re hav
ing an earthquake.” ) The station
went off the air moments later.
“C andlestick Park was shak
ing on all sides, the m onitors were
rocking," Pi-Gonzalez recalled. “I
thought it was the end o f the
w orld.”
More recently, Pi-Gonzalez was
calling agame in Seattle when Rafael
Palmeiro o f the Baltimore Orioles
became the first Cuban player to
reach 3,000career hits. Pi-Gonzalez
said it was the first time he'd had the
chance tocall such an achievement
by a Latin player.
“ESPN also joked that I was the
first Cuban announcer ever to call
the first Cuban ever to hit 3,000,” Pi-
Gonzalez said.
Minorities Grow to
Majority in Texas
Texas has now joined Hawaii,
New Mexico and California as a
majority-minority state, along with
the District of Columbia, the U.S.
C ensus Bureau reported. Five
states - M aryland, M ississippi.
Georgia, New York and Arizona -
are next in line with minority popu
lations of about 40 percent.
Estim ates in July 2004 stated
that Texas had a m inority popula
tion o f 11.3 m illion, com prising
50.2 percent o f its total popula
tion o f 22.5 m illion. In com pari
son, 77 percent o f H aw aii's popu
lation was m inority.
In New M exico and California,
the proportions were 57 percent
and 56 percent, w hile the District
o f Colum bia was 70 percent m i
nority.
California had the largest state
wide Hispanic population, with 12.4
million. New York had the largest
black population with 3.5 million.