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HispanicTrending: Hispanic Beverage Tastes Are Influencing a Nation

February 23, 2005Source: Retail Wire / Symrise El gusto latino es muy caliente!With a population that has grown in the U.S. by 77 percent over the last 12 years, it's no wonder that the influence of Hispanic taste is being...

The Puerta del Sol Blog--Reflections on life in Spain and Spanish culture: Disculpas...

...for this extended absence. I'm working on the next issue of PdS. Normal service will be resumed over the next few days.

Speaking of which, I've been reading Adam Feinstein's biography of Pablo Neruda, Pablo Neruda: a Passion for Life. It's good stuff. Feinstein tells again the tale of what happened when Pinochet's soldiers turned up at Neruda's house soon after Pinochet's coup in Chile in

The Puerta del Sol Blog--Reflections on life in Spain and Spanish culture: Referendum

That's it, then. Never have so few voted for something so little understood. Now let's see whether the rest of Europe follows. Apparently the King forgot to show his ID card before voting. I wonder if this will make any changes to the world of such mindless bureaucracy we've made?

The Puerta del Sol Blog--Reflections on life in Spain and Spanish culture: The Full Monty

A bunch of policeman from Madrid have made a "Calendar Girls"-style calendar to raise money for tsunami relief. I'd say this represents a pretty strong challenge to the Antonio Banderas, sexy macho male stereotype. Apart from the guy with the sunglasses.

The Puerta del Sol Blog--Reflections on life in Spain and Spanish culture: Holy Smoke

"El español," he wrote, "es demasiado importante para dejarlo en manos de los españoles." Cuban novelist and long-time exile in London Guillermo Cabrera Infante has died in Charing Cross Hospital. Here he is enjoying one of his beloved cigars in 1989 with Fernando de Szyszlo, Octavio Paz, Damián Bayón and Mario Vargas Llosa. This is the one he'll best be remembered by.

The Puerta del Sol Blog--Reflections on life in Spain and Spanish culture: Manifesto!

On Feb 11, ANECA, the organization responsible for implementing the reforms to the Spanish university system, passed a resolution to divide language and literature teaching at Spanish universities into the following categories:

1. Lenguas y culturas del Estado español
a. Lengua española y sus literaturas
b. Lengua y literatura catalanas
c. Lengua y literatura gallegas
d. Lengua y literatura

The Puerta del Sol Blog--Reflections on life in Spain and Spanish culture: Endangered Species

University language students in the UK are apparently an endangered species, with the only rise in numbers coming with students of Spanish and (for reasons I'm not clear about) Portuguese. On a related subject, perhaps some kind soul would like to buy this new book for me. "Did you know," as the New Statesman review says, "that the word 'Semitic', as a family of languages which includes Hebrew,

Barcepundit (English edition): EVEN ON THE SAME DAY of a devastating terrorist at...

EVEN ON THE SAME DAY of a devastating terrorist attack, Arthur Chrenkoff's new roundup of the good news from Iraq is unmissable. Make sure to read it from top to bottom.

The Bad Hair Blog: Big news from Lebanon: Lebanon's Prime Minister Om...

Big news from Lebanon: Lebanon's Prime Minister Omar Karimi has announced he and his government are resigning Lebanese government resigns amid mass opposition protests. Protesters in Lebanon Cheer Resignation of Government.

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