| Legend dies at the age of 50, for a heart attack |
| Michael Jackson dies |
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| His turbulent life, his songs, his contortions, they turned it into a world phenomenon. |
Washington Hispanic
Agencies
Michael Jackson, the sensational “king of pop” which magnificent talent was accompanied by revelations of a strange personal life, died at the age of 50 years of age.
A related source confirmed that Jackson died on Thursday, the 25th of June.
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The circumstances of his death were not remaining clear. Teams of emergency came to his hearth in Los Angeles to the 12.30 of the evening and found it without breathing, there declared the captain of firemen, Steve Ruda. He added that the paramedics tried to resuscitate it and took it to the Medical center of the University of California in Los Angeles.
The Jackson death finishes a turbulent and sometimes tragic life. Jackson was in the year 1980 indisputably the most influential artist in the pop music, which the black musician could combine with that of the targets and which was a pioneer of the musical videos transmitted then by the channel MTV.
He was perhaps the most electrifying artist of his generation: famous person for his frantic dances in which the groin was fighting and singing loudly splashed with shrieks and quakes. His solitary glove and tight jacket of decorated military man were what more they were distinguishing it, apart from his portrait several times altered by the surgery. With the step of the years his complexion was becoming paler and his most ripe nose.
HIS BEST DISCS
Released Álbumes - Stamp Motown:
* Got To Be There (1971)
* Ben (1972)
* Music And Me (1973))
* Forever, Michael (1975)
* One Day In Your Life (1981)
* Farewell My Summer Love (1984)
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| “King of Pop” |
Álbumes published with the Stamp Epic Records
(Sony Music/Sony BMG):
* Off the Wall (1979) * Thriller (1982)
* Bad (1987) * Dangerous (1991)
* HIStory: Past, Present and Future - Book I (1995)
* Blood On The Dance Floor (1997)
* Invincible (2001)
Topics compilations and vídeoclips:
* Number Ones (2003)
* The Ultimate Collection (2004)
* The Essential Michael Jackson (2005)
* Visionary - The Video Singles (2006)
* Thriller: 25th Anniversary Edition (2007)
* King of Pop (2008)
THERE IS BORN “THE KING OF POP”
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| Jackson was catalogued like a musical and artistic genius, and this demonstrated it from his beginnings. |
Michael was named like “The king of pop”, for the famous actress Elizabeth Taylor. This denomination alludes to that Jackson is the “king of the popular thing”, and also that the “king of the music is a rock” and the “king of the music soul”. The singer also has been named like “king of the entertainment” by the popular TV presenter Oprah Winfrey, during the interview that this one was granting to him in February, 1993.
Also, the British Encyclopedia includes Michael Jackson, like notable star of rock, in his section “rock music”, along with Madonna and Prince.
Jackson was catalogued like a musical and artistic genius, and this demonstrated it from his beginnings, epoch in which it was recognized like a child at a really extraordinary artistic level.
A SUPER STAR
Michael Joseph Jackson better known as Michael Jackson, was born on August 29, 1958, in Gary, Indiana; he died on June 25, 2009 in a hospital of the Angels, California at the age of 50.
There was singer, composer and ballet dancer of music hard a rock, rhythm and blues, I dial and dance. In the sixties, being still a child, it formed a group of big success in company of his brothers, The Jackson Five; later to turn into soloist.
In the decade of the eighties there turned into the most successful rock superstar on a global scale, the new king of pop, due to the extraordinary impact of his album Thriller (1982), the most sold disc of the history of the music.
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| There was singer, composer and ballet dancer of music hard a rock, rhythm and blues, I dial and dance. |
| Nine dead persons, 77 injured men in the Red Line |
| Meter suffers his most horrible tragedy |
Víctor Caycho
WasHington hispanic
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| Investigators and officials of Meter are employed at the place where there took place the shock of trains of the Red Line, the evening of Monday, the 15th. One of the trains remained mounted in other. photo: Charles Dharapak / AP |
The transports system Meter suffered, on Monday, the 22nd, the worst accident of all his history of 33 years, when a train of the Red Line left of the iron route and smashed to 59 miles per hour against another train that was stopped in the same line. It was 5:08 p.m., during an hour of public's big inflow (rush hour) and two trains, of six cars each one, were crammed with passengers.
The shock was so terrible that the first car stayed “in telescopic position”, as it indicates the slang of the railroad workpeople. Namely it ended mounted on the last car of another vehicle. One of the survivors reported that when they realized they were seated on the roof of another car; they saw others evaporating the front of the front car, while the others were trying to go out or were asking for help across his cell phones … But several were remaining lifeless: they were dead or on the verge of dying.
The final balance of the tragedy belonged to nine dead persons, between them the operator of the train, 42-year-old Jeanice McMillan. All other fatal victims were passing, from a major general of the army up to a Hispanic worker, mother of six children (to See box).
Also 77 injured men registered, some of them of supreme gravity.
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| Firemen and personnel of rescue move one of the injured men for the collision. foto:Jacquelyn Martin / AP |
The reconstruction
On Thursday, the 25th, the spokesman of Meter confirmed Washington Hispanic that the same day realized the reconstruction of the accident, “to be sure on what it happened with the functioning of the train or to find some flaw”.
As for the renewal of the service of the Red Line, the most active of the whole system, it depends on the federal authorities, who will determine the date in any moment.
“ Meter is of mourning. Also we lost our operator Jeanice McMillan. The directorate of Meter expresses his most felt to weigh all the families that have lost his dear beings”, affirmed the spokesman.
It was going from Hyattsville to his cleanliness work in DC
Salvadoran dies in train of the Red Line
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| Ann Fernández, makes six children orphan. photo: Alvaro Ortiz / WH |
Víctor Caycho
Washington Hispanic
With a visage that was reflecting very much pain, Nelson Fernández asked that should be investigated “until the end” what was what really there happened with the train of the Red Line of the service of transports Meter, which the evening of Monday, the 22nd was derailed and smashed against another train, causing the death of nine passengers. Also there registered their more than 75 injured men, different ones of supreme gravity.
Between the fatal victims of the tragedy there was his sister Ann 40-year-old, who was going to the work from his apartment in Hyattsville (Maryland), in the direction of his cleanliness work in the building Columbia Square, located in 555 of the street 13, in the area Northwest of DC.
“ The only thing that one is that my sister died and I would like knowing what was what really it spent, why this shock took place, in what circumstances, which are investigated until the end”, it stressed.
Ann Fernández, who came to the United States 18 years ago, from his canton of San Jerónimo, in the department of The Union, was one of nine fatal victims.
His sudden death leaves six children in the orphanage, one of which, 21-year-old Antonio, newly it had come from his native El Salvador was doing three weeks, to meet again with his mother. His other children were born in the United States: 18-year-old Evelyn; Jusara, of 12; 11-year-old Víctor; 10-year-old Sergio, and Jacquelyn, of only two years.
The Salvadoran victim was a very hard-working woman. “Everything was giving it for his children and was employed generally at two shifts and at two different companies, so that they do not lack at all”, affirmed one of his best friends, Margot Rojas, who was with Ann Fernández a few hours before the horrible tragedy.
Ann was separated from beginnings of this month of his couple, 35-year-old Oscar Flores, with the one who had his last daughter, Jacquelyn.
Scarce minutes had gone on after 5:00 p.m. from this fatidical day when the trains shock took place. The victim was traveling in the first car of the train of the Red Line that was on the point of arriving at the station of Fort Totten, on the border of Maryland with the District of Columbia. She had to work between 6:00 p.m. and 10 p.m., and it had enough margin to come with the due anticipation.
“ How could this happen with such a good, so affectionate and hard-working woman”, Margot Rojas was complaining, during the wakefulness that there took place the night of Tuesday, the 23rd in the head office of the Church House of God - crucifix the King, located in 6324 of Riggs Rd, in Hyattsville. Ann Fernández was a member of this group of faith “and she had turned into a spiritual leader”, as the shepherd Mejía qualified it.
The remains of Ann Fernández were dedicated to his family on Thursday, the 25th and the funeral acts are organized by the company Lanham Funeral Home, although the date of the wake and the burial they were still to be defined.
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| “It is a nation topic”, he affirms multipartial delegation in DC |
| El Salvador joins for the migratory reform |
Víctor Caycho
Washington Hispanic
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| Othon (left) Sigfrido Reyes, deputy of the FMLN and Vice-president of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, headed the group multipartial to his country. PHOTO: Alvaro Ortiz / Washington Hispanic |
The integral migratory reform in the United States “is a nation topic” in El Salvador, and with this target, a delegation multipartial to legislators of this Central American country mobilized this week to Washington DC.
“ Really, the above mentioned reform is a nation topic and we realize negotiations with the American authorities, especially in the Congress, to achieve the migratory stability of tens thousands of Salvadorans who reside in this country”, affirmed deputy Othon Sigfrido Reyes, of the Front Farabundo Martí for the National Liberation (FMLN), who is a Vice-president of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador.
Together with Kings there came deputies José Francisco Merino López, of the Party of National Conciliation (PCN), also Vice-president of the Legislative Assembly; Jackeline Noemí Rivera Avalos (FMLN) and Margarita Escobar, of the Nationalistic Republican Alliance (SAND); and the legislative assessor Gloria Gómez Salgado, of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC).
Monday, the 22nd, they offered a joint press conference in the head office of the embassy of El Salvador in Washington, where they announced that the Salvadoran Congress declared itself recently for supporting the efforts to crystallize “an integral, human and just migratory reform”.
“ We congratulate ourselves because the administration of the president Barack Obama is fulfilling his campaign promise, of promoting the migratory reform in the first six months of his government”, indicated Sigfrido Reyes. “It is an opportunity window”, it added, “and of be approving will be helped by it also so that in our country there is more stability and development”.
Also, Reyes announced that networks are created to promote “this transcendental migratory reform”, especially across the Advice Parliamentarian Regional, which integrate Mexico and the Central American countries.
For his part, Merino pointed out that scarcely there settled the government of the president Mauricio Funes in El Salvador, “the legislators we join this effort to support our compatriots who have looked for a better future in this nation”. Also, it revealed that according to his sources the migratory project will appear next October in the Acropolis.
To his shift, Margarita Escobar showed his enthusiasm for the fact of seeing “to all together in this topic”. He added that the delegation of his country greets the commitment of the administration of Obama “of initiating, once and for all, the debate on this migratory reform”. She augured that the American Congress will achieve to agree finally in this topic, “to finish with the drama that so many families, today separated face, especially of children born in the United States and which parents have been deported”.
Also Margarita Escobar directed a message to the Salvadorans who reside in the exterior, “so that they know that in his Legislative Assembly we are joined all the political forces in the intention of which these families achieve the awaited familiar reunification”.
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| He traveled to Argentina to meet his lover |
| Republican Governor admits infidelity |
íWashington Hispanic
AP
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Mark Sanford, governor of South Carolina, he confesses his infidelity.
photo: Mary Ann Chastain / AP |
The governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, it admitted on Wednesday, the 24th to have been unfaithful with his wife and announced his resignation as the director of the Association of Governors Republicanos.
Containing the tears, Sanford, father of four children, apologized with his wife, with his team of work and with the state whom it represents, after returning the same day of a trip to the Argentina, after staying away mysteriously from his works throughout one week.
“ I feel it and apologize to tanSanford, of 49 years, who was shouted like presidential candidate for the elections of 2012, discarded a possible resignation to the government.
Further on, he said that it met the woman eight years ago. He said that the relation limited itself to the e-mails exchange, but it turned into romance for one year, when Sanford traveled to this South American country to take part in a meeting of economic development.
Also it revealed that his wife, the first lady of South Carolina, Jenny Sanford, found out about the romance five months ago.
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| In Washington |
| Venezuela restores his ambassador |
Néstor Ikeda
AP
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| Bernardo Alvarez, returns like ambassador of the USA in Washington. PHOTO: AP |
The gobierns of the United States and Venezuela left without effect the declaration of not pleasant person for his respective ambassadors and agreed to return in his charges the ambassadors who were nine months ago old after the incidents happened, he informed on Thursday, the 25th the Department of the State.
That way, Patrick D. Duddy will return to his functions in Caracas and Bernardo Alvarez Herrera in Washington, indicated spokesman Ian Kelly.
In Caracas, the State Department announced in a bulletin that they stayed “without effect the measurements that were weighing on his respective ambassadors in Caracas and Washington from the last September of 2008”.
It pointed out that Alvarez Herrera “will recapture possession of his charge in Washington tomorrow, Friday, the 26th of June 2009”.
The agreement took place across an exchange of diplomatic notes, affirmed Kelly.
It indicated that Duddy, a diplomat of career named by the president George W. Bush, “it has the full confidence” of the president Barack Obama and the secretary of the State Hillary Clinton, added.
“ With his comeback (to Caracas) the diplomatic relations will be restored to plenitude”, said Kelly speaking to reporters. “This important step will contribute to the advance of the American interests on having improved the bilateral communication and our scope to the Venezuelan village”, he continued.
| Cancer victim dies |
| Farrah Fawcett |
Bob Thomas
ap
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| Farrah Fawcett, one of “The angels of Charlie”, recently recorded a documentary “Farrah's Story“ for the television. Photo: AP |
Farrah Fawcett, whose despampanante image and dazzling smile turned it into an icon pop in the 70s jumping to the reputation with his performance in the television series “The angels of Charlie” in 1976, died at the age of 62 years.
Fawcett died on Thursday, the 25th of June shortly before 9:30 of the morning in a hospital of Santa Monica, the spokesman Paul Bloch said Los Angeles, after a hard battle against the cancer.
It was in 2006 that they diagnosed an anal cancer and it began his struggle facing painful treatments and depressing relapsing. At all times it was provided with the support of his couple of years and father of his son Raymond, actor Ryan O'Neal.
This month O'Neal said that he proposed marriage to him and that Fawcett accepted. They would marry “as soon as she could say yes”, it expressed.
Fawcett looked for a remedy in Germany as well as in the United States, fighting the illness with an iron determination even if his body was weakening.
“ His big message for the people is that they do not give up, it is not important what they say of you, should keep on fighting”, said his friend Alana Stewart.
Farrah recorded a documentary for television where it appeared with visible features of his illness named "Farrah's Story" (The history of Farrah).
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