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Silvia Lemus : 2 months ago - Via Google Check-ins - View - Patrice H. : Watch the video: Ontario Livestock charged with animal cruelty after hidden video surfaces ONTARIO, Calif. (KABC) -- An animal rights group said it went undercover and caught workers at a local auction house beating livestock. An undercover video shows animals being kicked, dragged and thrown into pins by workers at Ontario Livestock Sales in Ontario. The group Mercy for Animals said some of the animals, allegedly too ill to stand, were left to slowly die of injury or disease without veterinary care. "This is some of the most egregious and sadistic abuse that I've seen in the 10 years of doing investigative work at farm animal facilities," said Nathan Runkle, executive director of Los Angeles-based Mercy for Animals. Mercy for Animals said they shot the disturbing images during a seven-week undercover operation. The auction house readies animals for sale, many of which are sold for food. In one shot, an employee stomps on the backs of pigs to prod them. In another clip, several baby goats are carried by their hind legs. The Inland Valley Humane Society said they've received several complaints about the facility over the years. "The whole video in itself is very gruesome," said Silvia Lemus, a humane officer. "We've gone out there several times and unfortunately, when we are out there we are in uniform, and usually they are not going to commit those acts in front of us." Last week, the San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office filed 21 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty against the owner and seven employees. They are due in court July 21. Eyewitness News contacted Ontario Livestock Sales, which would not comment on the allegations. The company's owner, 73-year-old Horacio Santorsola, told the Associated Press that the case was exaggerated and he and his employees had done nothing wrong. Santorsola said he had not been cited once in the 18 years he's owned the business, and grabbing animals by their necks and legs is necessary because they are not tame. "I think it's a bunch of crap," Santorsola told the AP. "How are you going to pick them up? They don't have a leash. They run, believe me, they do run." Mercy for Animals said it has conducted 20 similar investigations across the nation. They said they hope to shed light on animal abuse. "We feel it is absolutely unacceptable to beat animal, to throw then and to drag them by their neck," Runkle said. 11 months ago - Via Google+ - View - Dee Dell : Sad day Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes dies at 83 (Reuters) - Carlos Fuentes, one of Latin America's... Sad day Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes dies at 83 (Reuters) - Carlos Fuentes, one of Latin America's best-known authors and a sharp critic of governments in Mexico and the United States, died on Tuesday after a literary career spanning more than five decades. He was 83.Fuentes wrote more than 20 novels and several collections of short stories. His most famous novels include "The Death of Artemio Cruz," "The Old Gringo" and "The Crystal Frontier.""The Old Gringo" was the first U.S. bestseller by a Mexican author and was made into a 1989 movie starring Gregory Peck and Jane Fonda.Dividing his time mainly between Mexico City and London, Fuentes dovetailed literature and social and political commentary. He remained active and energetic to the end, and was working on a new book.Along with compatriot Octavio Paz, Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa, Fuentes brought Latin American literature to a global audience in the second half of the 20th century. His work was translated into two dozen languages."He left an enormous body of work which is an eloquent testimony to all of the big political problems and cultural realities of our time," Vargas Llosa said of Fuentes in a message posted on his daughter's Twitter account.Local media said Fuentes died in a Mexico City hospital after suffering a hemorrhage at home, although some originally reported heart problems.He won major literary prizes, including Spain's coveted Cervantes award. He was often seen as a strong candidate for a Nobel Prize, but it eluded him. Paz, a close friend until the two fell out in 1988, is the only Mexican to have won the Nobel Prize for literature.Born in Panama in 1928, Fuentes spent much of his early years in the United States, Chile and Argentina, following his father's diplomatic postings. He went on to study law and published his first novel at the age of 30.A dapper dresser and elegant public speaker, Fuentes was an open critic of Mexico's entrenched political system under the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which ruled the country for 71 years before it was ousted in 2000 elections.He was also a frequent critic of the U.S. role in the civil wars of Central America in the 1980s and lambasted the effects of U.S. immigration policy on Mexican migrant workers in his mid-1990s novel, "La Frontera de Cristal" (The Crystal Frontier)."They know they need migrant Mexican labor, without which their harvests, services and many aspects of life would go to ruin," Fuentes once said, calling U.S. policy a farce.Mexican President Felipe Calderon and other political and cultural leaders, including British author Salman Rushdie and new French President Francois Hollande, also paid tribute to Fuentes. His remains will lie in Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts on Wednesday to allow people to pay their last respects."I profoundly regret the death of our beloved and admired Carlos Fuentes, writer and universal Mexican," Calderon wrote on his Twitter account."Carlos Fuentes was one of the most brilliant writers of the 20th century in Mexico," Mexican writer and essayist Enrique Krauze said.PROLIFICThe prolific Fuentes said he never suffered from writer's block. He told Spain's El Pais newspaper during a recent visit to Buenos Aires that he had just finished one book and was already starting another."My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go," he said in the interview, published on Monday. "Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living."Fuentes also wrote plays and essays and spent some years as a Mexican diplomat, mainly in Europe.His critical eye was at work from the start of his career.His first novel in 1958, "La region mas transparente" (Where the Air is Clear), was not only a look at life in Mexico City, now ironically one of the most polluted cities in the world. It also examined how the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917 had created a new and wealthy elite but did nothing for the impoverished and indigenous masses.Fuentes said he always wanted to be a writer, inspired by the tales of Mexico told to him by his grandmothers."I think that I became a writer because I heard those stories - all the stories that I didn't know about Mexico, about my own land," he said in a 2006 interview with The Academy of Achievement, a U.S. group that highlights the work of leaders in various fields."They were the storehouse of these great tales of migrants, revolution, highway robberies, bandits, love affairs, ways of dressing, eating - they had the whole storehouse of the past in their heads and their hearts."Fuentes is survived by his wife, journalist and television presenter Silvia Lemus, and a daughter. His other two children died before him. Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes dies at 83 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Carlos Fuentes, one of Latin America's best-known authors and a sharp critic of governments in Mexico and the United States, died on Tuesday after a literary career spanning mo... 1 year ago - Via Google+ - View - Miva Valle : Silvia Lemus Is Latin Author Carlos Fuentes’ Wife (PHOTOS) » Right Entertainment Latin America just lost an amazing talent. Carlos Fuentes was a talented author, novelist, a loving father and husband to his wife Silvia Lemus. Today we will tell you a little bit about Carlos' w... 1 year ago - Via Google+ - View - Alireza Parsaei : Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's most celebrated novelist, has died aged 83 Nick Caistor Tuesday 15 May 2012... Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's most celebrated novelist, has died aged 83 Nick Caistor Tuesday 15 May 2012 21.52 BST The writer and polemicist Carlos Fuentes, who has died aged 83, published more than 60 works, including novels, short stories, essays and plays, in a career that spanned six decades. His 1985 novel El Gringo Viejo (The Old Gringo) was the first Mexican book to figure in the New York Times bestseller list, and four years later was made into a Hollywood film starring Gregory Peck and Jane Fonda, while his fictionalised account of his love affair with the movie star Jean Seberg surfaced in Diana, O la Cazadora Solitaria (Diana: The Goddess Who Hunts Alone, 1994). Born in Panama to Mexican parents – his father was a diplomat from Veracruz, on the Gulf of Gulf – Fuentes spent his childhood in several Latin American capitals, before starting schooling in English in Washington DC. According to a 2005 interview, it was while he was in the US capital that he began to write: "I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings. I took it round all the apartments in the block. I didn't get much reaction, but from then on I knew I wanted to be a writer." His first experience of living in Mexico, other than for holidays, came at the age of 16, when he returned to study. Like his father, he embarked on a diplomatic career, taking law at the National University of Mexico (Unam) in Mexico City and international law at the University of Geneva. But while studying, he also worked as a journalist on the Mexican daily Hoy, and began to write short stories. His first short story collection, Los Días Enmascarados (Masked Days, 1954) was followed by his first novel, La Región Mas Transparente (Where the Air Is Clear, 1958). In it, he describes the life of Mexico City in the 1940s and 50s, with its heady mixture of Spanish, indigenous and more contemporary Mexican elements. The linguistic and formal experimentation in the book brought him to the attention of reviewers in Mexico and abroad, but it was his second novel, La Muerte de Artemio Cruz (The Death of Artemio Cruz, 1962) that won him recognition as one of Latin America's leading young authors. The book centres on the Mexican Revolution (1910-20) and its effect on the succeeding generations. It is still considered by many to be Fuentes's masterpiece because of its psychological insights, again with formal experimentation. As with many other prominent Latin American authors, Fuentes combined an administrative and diplomatic career with his intense literary output. In the 1960s, he lived mostly in Europe, especially Paris, where he met and mixed with all the other international Latin American writers, from his fellow countryman Octavio Paz to the Cuban Alejo Carpentier and the Argentinian Julio Cortázar. It was mainly thanks to the presence of this group in the French capital that the international popularity of Latin American novels made such an impact– "el boom" – although Fuentes's work is often much more experimental and challenging in tone than the magical realism with which the movement became so closely associated. It was also early in the 1960s that he became involved in Mexican cinema. He had married the film actor Rita Macedo in 1959, and during the next decade wrote several film scripts with Gabriel García Márquez and others. He also showed an interest in the theatre, his two most noteworthy plays being Todos los Gatos son Pardos and El Rey Tuerto. The major novels Fuentes produced in these years were Cambio de Piel (Change of Skin, 1967), and the 350,000 word, all-encompassing Terra Nostra (Our Land, 1975), which spans more than 2,000 years of history and has been called "a panoramic Hispano-American creation myth". Like many Mexicans, his relationship with the US was a complicated mixture. For many years, his politics meant that he had difficulties gaining entry, but from the 1970s onwards, he frequently stayed and taught at leading American universities. The difficult relationship between the two countries was summed up in his Tiempo Mexicano (Mexican Time, 1971), and he observed that: "The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others." One of his many achievements, in essays, lectures, but also in fiction, was to help overcome that misunderstanding. At the same time, he managed the rare feat for a leftwing Latin American intellectual of adopting a critical attitude towards Fidel Castro's Cuba without being dismissed as a pawn of Washington. This dated from the infamous 1971 Heberto Padilla incident, when the poet was arrested and and kept under close watch till his departure nine years later for the US. Fuentes's ability to maintain such a position was due in no small part to his brilliance as a polemicist: he was a sharp, incisive speaker who loved to shine and dominate his audience. He was full of often malicious wit, conveyed in the very Mexican spirit that every conversation or argument is a duel that is to be taken completely seriously – and then forgotten over a drink. At the same time, he was consistently generous in his praise and support for younger Latin American writers. His personal life was also frequently tumultuous. In 1972-73 came a very public break with his first wife, with whom he had had a daughter, Cecilia, followed afterwards by marriage to the pregnant journalist Silvia Lemus. A son, Carlos, was born in 1973, followed by a daughter, Natasha, three years later. With his new family, he moved again to Paris, where from 1975 he served as Mexican ambassador. Fuentes said he took the position in memory of his father and his long diplomatic career, but he resigned in 1977 when former president Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, whom he saw as being responsible for the 1968 massacre of several hundred students in Tlatelolco Square in Mexico City, was appointed ambassador to Spain following the death of the dictator Francisco Franco. After this, Fuentes made his living from his writing and academic appointments. He continued to produce novels at an astonishing rate, acknowledging that it was his obsession, and that he had to write every day: "It's like bricklaying or making a table. You have to take it seriously, you have to practise your trade each and every day, or you forget it." As he grew older, he won many awards. These included Mexico's Alfonso Reyes prize (1979), and the prestigious Premio Miguel Cervantes from Spain (1987), as well as honorary doctorates from universities in the US and Britain including Warwick, Harvard, Cambridge and the University of California, Los Angeles. Cervantes and his character Don Quixote were a crucial influence on Fuentes as a novelist. He saw Cervantes, together with Shakespeare, as ushering in the modern age, and revelled in the Spanish author's mixture of fantasy and reality. He himself drew on the concept of the agora, the place in the cities of ancient Greece where citizens assembled. He defined the power of the novel as that of the agora, "where all voices are heard, where all voices are respected. This is also the idea of Hermann Broch, and has been inherited by Milan Kundera and myself. We are disciples of the idea that the novel is the agora of many points of view, but also of not only a psychological reality or a political reality, but of many aesthetic realities that would otherwise have no languages." In his 60s and 70s, Fuentes produced a stream of novels and essays that deepened this investigation into the possibilities of fiction, in works such as The Crystal Frontier (1997), The Years with Laura Díaz (1999) or Inez (2003). Some of these were less well received than his earlier work, but La Silla del Águila (The Eagle's Throne, 2003), an epistolary novel comically taking apart the complexities and absurdities of Mexican political life, was seen by many critics as a return to form. His later years were marred by losing both his children from his second marriage: Carlos, who was a haemophiliac, as a result of blood transfusion problems, and Natasha after a heart attack. Throughout his life, wherever he lived, Mexico was the centre of Fuentes's artistic preoccupations. In his late 70s, he provided a typically graphic description of the attraction he felt for his own land: "It's a very enigmatic country, and that's a good thing, because it keeps us alert, makes us constantly try to decipher the enigma of Mexico, the mystery of Mexico, to understand a country that is very, very baroque, very complicated and full of surprises." He is survived by his wife, Silvia, and his daughter Cecilia. • Carlos Fuentes Macías, writer, born 11 November 1928; died 15 May 2012 • Carlos Fuentes: Academy of Achievement interview © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 1 year ago - Via Google+ - View -