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Mexico’s First Modern Comedy
T h e p la y ’s c a s t, T e a tro
E s p a n o l, is th e P a c ific
N orthw est's only Spanish-lan-
guage acting ensemble and hails
from Latin America, Mexico,
Venezuela and Peru.
“Rosalba Y Los Llaveros” is
in S p a n ish w ith E n g lish
su p ertitles. Show tim es are
Thursday s at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays
and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and
Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Tick­
ets are $15 to $18.
For more information, call 503-
2 3 6 -7 2 5 3
or
v isit
w w w .m ilagro.org.
‘Rosalba Y
Los Llaveros ’
Bellas Artes Production pre­
sents “Rosalba Y Los Llaveros,”
a Spanish com edy o f manners,
at M ilagro Theatre, 525 S.E.
Stark St.. April 5 - 28.
Set in the late 1940s, "Rosalba
y los Llaveros” is a delightful
comedy of manners in which a
d efian t young w om an from
M exico City visits her cousin,
turning their lives upside down
in a futile attem pt to “liberate”
them from their provincial lives
and exposing many family se­
crets along the way.
C onsidered M ex ico 's first
modern com edy, the play is a
wonderful blend o f fresh real­
ism and Mexican costum brism o
from one o f M exico’s most re­
nowned. prolific and successful
playwrights.
Everyone s lives turn upside
down when a young woman
from Mexico City tries to
“liberate" her provincial
cousins, in the Spanish
language production of
“Rosalba Y Los Llaveros" at
Milagro Theatre, April 5 - 28.
Mystical,
Playful
Creations
Vatican Pushes
Mexico on Abortion
(AP) - The Vatican on Fri­
day sent in its top anti-abortion
cam paigner to M exico City to
kick o ff the Roman Catholic
Church's aggressive campaign
against plans to legalize abor­
tion in Mexico.
The church's campaign pushes
the limit of Mexico’s constitu­
tional ban on political activity by
religiousgroups. Itisalsodrawing
President Felipe Calderon, a con­
servative who opposes abortion,
into a showdown with leftists
spearheading the bills to legalize
abortion in the first three months
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L egal N otices
o f pregnancy.
"In the name o f Jesus Christ
and his Gospel, we ask, we
implore they do not approve an
unjust and bloody law that kills
the innocent," said the Rev.
Hugo Valdem ar, spokesm an
for the Catholic Archdiocese
o f M exico City.
While the church has always
been ag ain st ab o rtio n , the
Vatican especially does ijot
want to not lose its anti-abor­
tion fight in M exico, which has
the second-largest C atholic
population in Latin America.
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The Portland Observer
Cartel Behind
Cocaine Seizure
(AP) U.S. officials said
Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug
cartel is behind the record 20-
ton cocaine shipment that was
recently seized by the U.S. Coast
Guard off Panama's Pacific
Coast.
Homeland Security Secretary
M ichael Chertoff cal led the sei­
zure. worth nearly $300 mi I lion,
the largest ever by the Coast
Guard. The drugs were found in
containers on a ship that left
Guyana and passed through the
Panama Canal on March 15 on
the way to the Mexican state of
Sinaloa, said Panama's top drug
prosecutor, Jose Almengor.
Coast Guard officials de­
tained 11 Mexicans and three
Panamanians during the seizure
about 20 miles southeast of the
island of Coiba off Panama's
coast. The Mexicans will be
taken to the U.S. to face trial,
while the Panamanians will be
jailed in Panama.
Almengor said the Sinaloa
cartel has just begun to estab­
lish itself in Panama, which bor­
ders Colombia. The majority of
Colombia's drugs move along
Central America by boat or plane
and then pass through Mexico
over land before they are
smuggled intothe United States.
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The paints and prints of Brazilian-born artist
Jussara Padilha will have an encore presentation
for Last Thursday, March 29atOnda Arte Latina/
Cross Currents Gallery. 2 2 15 N.E. Alberta St.
Padilha, who now lives in Ashland, uses
color, clean lines and graphic composition as
hallmarks of her work. She creates a bridge
between the mystical and playful through her
dynamic sense of color, evoking the sense of joy
of creation.
Shestudiedat Pratt Institutein New York and
worked for Yoko Masaki Design Studio before
leaving for India where she studied meditation
and worked with art and music for a period of
eight years.
Her art is strongly influenced by her native
country of Brazil as well as the aesthetics and
philosophies of India and Indonesia. Another
source of inspiration has been poetry by writers
asdiverse as Pablo Neruda and Rumi. She began
using her own poetry in creating some of her
recent images.
A U.S. Coast Guard keeps
watch on 19.4 metric tons
of cocaine confiscated
from the cargo ship Gatun
in Panama City. (AP photo)
Committed to Cultural Diversity
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