Adventures of the Coconut Caucus

About time for an orgullo hispano, from beyond. The kind of story that needs no comment.

He was a real stand-up guy, even in death.

A funeral home in Puerto Rico used a special embalming treatment to keep the body of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for a three-day wake in his mother’s San Juan home.

AP The body of Angel Pantoja Medina, 24, leans against a wall by his coffin during his own wake in his mother’s home in Puerto Rico.

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I know that “technically” this has nothing to do with the Hispanic Caucus, except that they will probably invite JLo to their gala…. but I just couldn´t resist….

So what happens when you break out, and break through in the showbiz industry?

You promote those stereotypes that make us all proud!!!!!!!!

J.Lo Seeking TV Maid

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Jennifer Lopez is dusting off this Maid for the small screen.

After scoring a box-office hit back in 2002 with Maid in Manhattan, the actress-producer is now developing an hourlong comedy-drama for ABC based on her Cinderella story about a luxury hotel cleaner who hides her identity after falling for a wealthy senator.

Lopez will coproduce the Maid in Manhattan series with Joe Roth and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas. Scribe Chad Hodge will pen the pilot, which he says will delve more into Marisa’s world taking care of the hotel’s rich guests with her fellow workers.

“The show is a different maid in a different Manhattan,” (yeah, because the real maids in the real Manhattan are Dominican and Mexican and not nuyorican) he told the Hollywood Reporter. “While the hotel’s clientele is an obvious part of this world, I’m more interested in the downstairs part of Upstairs, Downstairs.”

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Yes we all know that NCLR, so called biggest latino civil rights organization ever, gets over a million dollars from Wall-Mart and donations from whatever companies want to sell us licor.

But do not worry that nice salary that the head of NCLR, Janet Murguía gets is put to good use by contributing in a schizophrenic way to a nice little array of candidates.

So in case you are wondering to whom and how much, here we have it:

Janet Murguia Q1/2007 Hillary Clinton $2,300

Janet Murguia Q1/2008 John McCain $1,500

Q1/2008 Barack Obama $1,500

AND yes we have discovered this nice new website that has EVERYBODY, even Latinos, and their donations so MORE to follow…. I already checked on Antonio Villaraigosa and it appears that he is totally and completely stingy.

This is an event which gets waaaay more Latino attention than something minor like an election… there is so much I could say about it but, maybe after McCain´s speach at La Raza in San Diego…

First the video you all wanted to see: Miss USA is tripped as part of a secret Vietnamese revenge plot…

Just as last year she was tripped by a Mexican-Atzlan plot

But anyway what I really wanted to highlight is the tackiest “national costume” ever brought to you by the Dominican Republic…. move over Sammy Sosa… Read the rest of this entry »

Washington, DC – The Hispanic Local Elected Officials (HELO) will honor Henry Cisneros, prominent Hispanic leader and former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, on Saturday, June 28 during the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) annual conference. HELO is a constituency group of the National League of Cities (NLC). Cisneros will be honored during the NALEO conference’s Assembly of Receptions at the Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel from 5:00pm – 7:00pm.

Cisneros, a former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, and former NLC president, is one of the nation’s most accomplished and influential Hispanic leaders (AS LONG AS YOU DON’T ASK HIS MISTRESS AND WIFE!).

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