Una cancción ranchera-- la cantó Maná en su álbum "Unplugged," el cual disco he tocado muchíssimas veces estas últimas días...

Se me acabó la fuerza de mi mano izquierda--
Voy a dejarte el mundo para tí solita--
Como al caballo blanco le solté la rienda--
A tí tambien te suelto, y te me vas ahorita

COROY cuando al fin comprendas ( Read more... )

He devuelto de seguir de nuevo los aventuras del Capitán Alatriste. Éstas novelas de Arturo Pérez-Reverte se tratan de la vida y las aventuras del epónimo capitán, espadachín a sueldo en el España de Felipe IV ( Read more... )

Las night, I was standing on the Dupont Circle Metro platform when I saw a man wearing a DC United jersey, DCU scarf, and bearing an umbrella ( Read more... )

I can't BELIEVE I missed this movie.

That's Viggo Mortensen playing the lead in a movie adaptation of the "Capitán Alatriste" novels of Arturo Pérez Reverte. Danger, swashbuckling and action...all in my favorite historical period, the "Siglo de Oro"!

Public Service Announcement:

For those of you who can't get to a TV for the World Cup matches, I have discovered that one station IS broadcasting them.

WKDL-AM 730 carries live play-by-play of most Cup matches, but in Spanish. For those of you who can understand it, it's a real treat, as the play-by-play guy is Andres Cantor, and color ( Read more... )

WaPo is reporting the debutof a Spanish Translation of the Star-Spangled Banner, produced and sung by a number of Latin pop stars.

[Edit 13:21 EDT--The President has demanded that the anthem be sung in English.]

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I had hoped to get a closer look at the text and context of the President's speech by tonight, but I've been side-tracked.

The Democrats actually broadcast a second rebuttal to the State of the Union address, delivered in Spanish by Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Nobody told me about this--indeed, the mainstream media did not seem to ( Read more... )