Adventures of the Coconut Caucus

We all know that Condi and Hugo are the perfect power couple, but hey… apparently another woman wants to get in her way…

Naomi Campbell Meets With Hugo Chávez

a British Vogue? who knew?

MOST IMPORTANTLY… Naomi made sure to tell us all that a public meeting with a controversial president has NOTHING at all to do with ANYTHING even remotely political:

I’ve been here before actually,” she said. “A beautiful country, very tropical. You’ve got great waterfalls.”Then, before turning to walk inside, she added: “I’m not going to be political. Thank you very much.”

Because we all know she was just there to see if Hugo could get he some good domestics…

The most famous anti immigrant congress person, Tom Tancredo with excellent name recognition among Latinos worldwide, has apparently decided to become a full time minutemen and stop fighting Mexicans at taxpayer expense….

Tom Tancredo Will Not Seek Re-election

DENVER (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo said Monday he will not seek re-election to his Colorado seat in the U.S. House but will remain in the presidential race.

Tancredo said illegal immigration, his core issue, now has national prominence and he doesn’t need to stay in Congress to promote it.

“The issue now has a life of its own and it doesn’t need one particular person to champion it,” he said.

“I feel my job, my task, has been completed. (yeah because since he has been in Congress the number of undocumenteds has grown to 12 million)

And I am very much at peace with the idea that if I’m not elected president (IF???????) then I won’t be running” for another term in Congress, he said.

Now the people at ICE and the Border Patrol, who probably have a phone line dedicated to just the people Tancredo tries to turn in, will be able to stop working all that “overtime”.

AND i just discovered that if you change just one letter in his name you can go from TANCREDO to TanCerdo

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OK, so stop saying that machismo dominates Latin America.

In case you are counting, Cristina Fernández, is the second female head of state of Argentina (The other one was NOT Evita, and not the Madonna version, it was Isabel Perón), and Nicaragua, Panamá, Chile etc have also had female presidents…

Yes even women in Latin America are doing the jobs no U.S. citizen woman would be elected to do…

Well, while the people at La Raza (which continues to call itself the largest Hispanic civil rights organization) are busy throwing galas to honor Alberto GONEzales and raising money from Wall-Mart, the NAACP is out defending our gente…

Good thing they have some time left over for us….

NAACP fears profiling if law enforcement partners with ICE

Mauricio R. Arellano and three friends were eager to get to Charles Town, W.Va. last December. They planned to spend a few hours gambling together at the casino. Since some of the men had been drinking before they left their houses in Anne Arundel County, Arellano, who was sober, agreed to drive. That decision ended up landing him in jail.

Why?

The car Arellano was driving had too many air fresheners hanging from the rear view mirror, according to prosecutors. (I won´t even get in to the air freshener thing, a whole other issue)

Arellano’s wife lives in the United States and has petitioned for him to emigrate from Mexico, said his friend Eduardo Lopez. At the time of his arrest, Arellano was visiting her on a temporary visa. He showed his Mexican driver’s license and his international driver’s license, a document the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration recognizes as providing legal authority to operate a vehicle.

Despite having those documents, Arellano was handcuffed and taken to the Frederick County Adult Detention Center on charges he didn’t have proper identification……..

Guy Djoken, president of the Frederick branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said members have questions about how the authority will be used. While they support deportation of illegal immigrants who have committed crimes, they want to ensure the civil rights of Hispanic residents are not violated.

Some people seem to confuse being Hispanic with being an illegal immigrant or a criminal, Djoken said.

“We are afraid if (the deputies are granted the authority), they might end up stopping people based on how they look,” he said.

A study by The Frederick News-Post published in March found that Hispanic and black residents are more likely to be searched than white residents, and in many cases those searches are unnecessary.

To help ensure profiling doesn’t occur, members of the Frederick County branch of the NAACP will meet today with the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office.

An article expressed immense admiration at a Latino poet who actually made white people cry. Yes, the Puelltorros are speaking, and it’s a language that even the gringos are able to understand.

Our very own Nuyorican (and Che look alike) Martin Espada was a favorite with white spoiled college students when he depicted life for Latinos in Boston, bustling metropolis *ahem* of brown pride. You can hear the audio here.

All we can say to that is JJJELL JES!