The Press in Spansh

http://www.latindex.com/prensa/

The above link has newspapers/publications by country.

BBC’s Narcotraficante site

Check out http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/specials/2008/narcomexico/

to find out more about the horrible struggle in Mexico to handle the drug and gang problems.  There are lots of compelling visuals on the site as well.

Realidades 2 Vocabulary Powerpoints

Sra. Shirley has excellent vocab powerpoints for our Spanish II textbook, Realidades 2 here.

news from Venezuela…

From a blog called Boing Boing, I read:

Man wakes up during autopsy

Posted by David Pescovitz, September 17, 2007 12:49 PM

Carlos Amejo, 33, of Caracas, Venezuela, was reportedly declared dead after a car wreck but woke up during an autopsy. (A Reuters report, summarizing an article from the Spanish-language El Universal, doesn’t state why an autopsy had been ordered.) Amejo allegedly became alert when examiners started to stitch up an incision on his face. From Reuters:

“I woke up because the pain was unbearable,” Camejo said…

His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband’s body only to find him moved into a corridor — and alive.

Link (Thanks, Lindsay Tiemeyer!)

“adios a los periodicos” intermediate podcast

http://www.notesinspanish.com/2007/03/28/intermediate-spanish-podcast-25-adios-a-los-periodicos/