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Youtube in 1950's Mexico

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The governor of the mexican state of Veracruz believes he is in the mid 20th century. when all governments (in mexico at least) censored all the media, and anybody who dared to challenged the censorship ended jobless and penniless (if lucky). Recently somebody uploaded a music video using a famous soundtrack cover "quiero que me quieras" in spanish from the song "I want you to want me" hte video is called "Yo te vi, yo te vi, robando" making reference to a part of the song (changed a little bit), using images of the governor.

It is amazing that this governor asked the IFE (Electoral Body in Mexico) to ask Youtube to delete this video, because it damaged his image, yeah! right blame the video!... he is a politician, show me a politician whit a clean image, nothing to hide, it is impossible, some are cleaner than others, but that is all, also they are public figures, and so as there are people who are going to support him there are people who don't like him, that is politics and democracy, so get use to it, it has arrive, and WE (the people) want it to keep it.

You can search on Youtube and find a ton of videos that attack and support different politicians, and from diferent countries, the Obama girl, all the Sendero del Peje youtube videos, just write the name of the politician or political party.

Instead of trying to censor Youtube, clean your image, if that is not possible, let it pass and resign from political life.

Since all this happened the video became even more popular and appeared in many more sites over the internet, and there is a response to his failure "censorship"


This is the famous video


This is the answer after trying to censor the other video

Veracruz

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Veracruz 2008 Nov (76), originalmente cargada por Yorch Arturo.

For work reasons I went to the city and port of Veracruz, it is, in my humble opinion, the best beach city in Mexico, is not touristic, which in Mexico means it is a real city, Cancun, Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco, any other beach town you think of is like Disneyland, fake, great but fake, why, well everything is about the tourist, the mexican food is so fake in those places, over mexicanized, while this city is large, like a million people, and the economy is diversify, industry, port, tourism, commerce, petroleum (pemex) and other stuff too.

I stay in the metro area of Boca del Rio, 10km from the downtown, I walk that one day thinking it was a shorter distance.

I truly say that of the beach towns and cities this is the only one I could live, because it is a real city, with all the things yo need of a city, and an affordable price (Cancun, Pto Vallarta and others are so overprice)

Visit it if yo can, it is a good place to be.

Three weeks of traveling

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The last three weeks I spend them traveling, not around the world, not on vacation, but for work, three weeks of work outside of my house, my friends, my family... it is really exhausting

First week I went to Veracruz, Ver. the port of entrance of Mexico since the time of the viceroyalty the first Spanish shelters arrived there, the last ones where located there too.

It is a nice place to be, but not on work duty and without friends.

The next week I was in Mexico City, a city full of culture, events, concerts, museums and lots of things to do, but the worst transit ever, to advanced 10km you can take up to an hour, so to move to a museum or any other cultural place you will need at leas 2 hours and lots of patience, plus carrying a camera "turist" like guy made you a clear objective to the robbers, even taxi drivers try to abuse of you by charging more, but I know the city, I know the right fares and fees so they can't fool me. That is the bad part, people is rude, and many of them try to take advantage of you. The good thing is that I was so rounded by models, in the event I went.



Then I came back to Santiago de Queretaro on saturday night, and then last week I was again sent to Mexico City, but this time at least I was staying in the nice part of the city, Paseo de la Reforma, everything next to this street is nice and clean, museums, forest, parks, castles are located in this street. But I didn't have the chance to visit anything, thanks to the glorious transit.

Tiziano Ferro Burned in Veracruz!!

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The italian pop singer that was more famous in Mexico than in Italy, actually he lived in Mexico for three years, in a symbolic act to start the carnival a carboard figure of him was burned as a representation of "Bad Luck"

Last year he said in an italian tv show that ALL mexican women where ugly and have mustache, and only Salma Hayek was pretty. Since that comment from being a number 1 hit in the record stores in Mexico he is no longer sold in stores, his music is not played at radio stations, and many radio hosts mention that no matter what EMI offers them, they are not going to play him.

Tiziano cancel his concert that year, and move it at least three times the dates, finally he arrive and many protested outside (they have nothing more to do), I actually don't think he is coming back to fame in Mexico again.

He suffer the mexican revenge, worst than Montezuma's. Another person that suffered the same was Christina Aguilera, nobody hears anything about her since her las visit to the country, whe she did stupid DIVA stuff in a live tv show. Also Monica Naranjo a spanish singer that in a Rolling Stone (mexican version) magazine said that she reinvented mexican music, because before her there was only Norteñas song (Tigres del Norte, Bronco) but she didn't count on the fact that Paulina Rubio, Thalia and others pop singers are mexicans, and have a career previous to her's. So not a single CD of her you can find on stores.

Photos

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My more recent photos are located in my albums you can see them here:



If you like them tell me, if you don't like them... tell me too, so I can improve my skills or develop them.

Back to reality

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I'm back from the four times heroic port of Veracruz, it a beautiful city, four times heroic, because it was invaded in four different ocassions, I don't think any other city keep the count of that.

I will be posting the diary of a traveler here, right now I'm too tired, it was great to visit the beach only for a weekend, si I can now relax and return to work hard.

The best College Tradition!!

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I think the best college tradition ever is the so-called "Road trip" a trip with your friends with little or no money, to any kind of places... As a good college guy I practice it as much as possible ($$) when we are a student we call ourselves studenhunger (estudihambre) since you suffer hunger because you spent great percentage of your money in two things, school books and material (copies, coffee, library fees and stuff) and in parties (beer and chips), that is why we suffer hunger.

As a student I had road trips to several places:

-Ixtapa (beach)
-Playa Azul a beach (well we thought it was playa azul, but we are not certain, since we arrive by accident, we where lost)
-Los Azufres (forest, cabins, scary stories, crazy using mask killer... well not all of that)
-Morelia (colonial town)
-Patzcuaro (famous for it's day of the dead party... and very cold)
-Bernal (small town with the third biggest rock on earth)
-Tequisquiapan (small town with lots of water parks)
-Colon (small town with nothing to do... so bored)
-Amealco (small town with forest and extremly cold)

In all but two of those trips I was the official driver, since I am the one with a car of it's own and the one with the more experience in driving, and never crashing a car... well not a big crash.

For the first time we are no longer students, and we no longer suffer for the lack of money... not so much suffering... so we are going to do the first roadtrip by plane, so it will be called the first plane trip for the friends... I'm doing it with my friends from High school who went to the same college as me, and some college friends to the colonial-beach-port town of Veracruz located in jungle, so we are making a trip with all the characteristics of the previous trips, forest (jungle actually), beach and colonial.

Tomorrow is D day... super anxious to travel... it will be only a weekend, just like in college.
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