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November 07, 2007
Ana María Salazar In a Taxi Honey
Ana María Salazar
It's not a regular phenomenon, but there are times when I am swept off my feet by a woman.
The most recent occurence happened when I learned of the Mexican news broadcast in English by Imagen Informativa, a news/talk network out of Mexico City. As I mentioned before, it's difficult to get hard news about what is going on in Mexico in English. Delivery of The News in Guadalajara, at our local Librería Sandi has been disappointingly sporradic, and the Guadalajara Colony Reporter, well...they seem hesitant to allow their gringo reporters cover political news.
It took a while to track it down. All our Mexican friends knew there was a news broadcast in English, but nobody knew any specific details that would help me find out where I needed to set my dial to hear it. Finally, the ever-helpful Charles told us that it was broadcast on Imagen News, and that helped me locate it over the Internet. On the Imagen web site, I learned that it is only on at 5:30 AM and 11:00 PM, but luckily, they carry MP3 files of each broadcast on their web site. I downloaded all the ones they had available, ranging back over the previous four or five days.
From the first "Hello Mexico," I was hooked. I check in almost daily to get my regular fix. Not only is it great to have such an easy way to keep up with what is going on in Mexico, but to have it presented by such a savvy host is a real treat. Salazar was raised in a bilingual household, got her bachelor's degree from Berkeley, a law degree from Harvard, served as the United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Drug Enforcement Policy and Support from 1998 to 2001, and now, in addition to being the head of her own international consulting firm that specializes in negotiation and mediation training, Grupo Salazar, she hosts two radio shows, Imagen News and Living in Mexico, a tv show called Seguridad Total, and writes for two blogs, Mexico Today and Mexico Decide. Phew.
On top of all that, she's got a really, really sexy voice.
Even you extranjeros can listen to the MP3 files of her weekday and weekend shows, if you want to keep up with important things going on in Mexico. If you are fortunate enough to be living in La Republica, you can find your local Imagen affiliate and tune in.
Posted by crispy at November 7, 2007 01:27 PM