Contra viento y marea, Ricky Martin brindará su show en Honduras

Ricky escribió en Twitter: “Panamá, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, México y Puerto Rico, prepárate que llevo MAS”.

06.10.11 - Actualizado: 06.10.11 06:47pm - Gustavo Banegas : gustavo.castillo@elheraldo.hn

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TEGUCIGALPA, 

HONDURAS

Pese a la oposición de grupos religiosos y sectores conservadores en el país, el concierto de Ricky Martin programado para el 16 de octubre se realizará.
El cantante puertorriqueño puede ingresar a Honduras, esa es la posición del gobierno de Honduras, girada desde Washington por el presidente Porfirio Lobo, quien realiza una visita oficial a Estados Unidos.
En declaraciones vertidas en el foro Frente a Frente de Televicentro, Ana Pineda, ministra de Derechos Humanos, explicó que la política del Estado de Honduras es garantizar los derechos humanos y el ingreso de Martin al país.
"La posición oficial del gobierno ha sido de respeto a los derechos humanos y tratando de ser congruente con esa política, se ha manejado por la Secretaría de Justicia y de Derechos Humanos que el cantante Ricky Martin puede ingresar a nuestro país y llevar a cabo su espectáculo", dijo Pineda.
La funcionaria sostuvo que negar la entrada a Martin "sería un acto de intolerancia y un acto homofóbico altamente censurable". Pineda recordó que el artista es embajador de buena voluntad del Fondo de Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (UNICEF) contra el abuso sexual y que "una personalidad de esta naturaleza no busca un acto que vaya a causar perjuicio en ninguna persona y menos en la niñez".
La Confraternidad Evangélica de Honduras envió el pasado 26 de septiembre una carta al ministro hondureño del Interior, Áfrico Madrid, en la que expresó su preocupación por "el mensaje y ejemplo" que pudiera transmitir el concierto del intérprete de éxitos mundiales como "Living la vida loca".
Por otro lado, cabe destacar que el Comité de Censura del Ministerio de Gobernación y Justicia, anunció ayer en medio de conferencia de prensa que el espectáculo recibirá censura porque solo entrarán los mayores de 15 años.
Conózcalo en persona
Conciertos BAC Credomatic y diario EL HERALDO le brindan la oportunidad de conocer a Ricky Martin en persona y llevarse a casa su última producción discográfica titulada "Música + Alma + Sexo" totalmente autografiada.
Para participar en esta promoción lo primero que debe hacer es convertirse en fan de BAC Credomatic Honduras y Diario EL HERALDO en Facebook.
Luego en la fan page de BAC ingresar a la aplicación "Completa y gana" y con ello ya estará participando. En los muros de ambas páginas y en publicaciones de EL HERALDO se anunciarán los códigos que forman las ocho piezas que completan el reto. El sorteo se realizará el próximo 13 de octubre a las 2:00 PM entre todas las personas que completen el reto.
Un show espectacular
La gira Música + Alma + Sexo será un espectáculo diferente a los que hemos visto en el país, los encargados de montar el escenario son los mismos del último tour de Madonna.
Cabe destacar que esta misma empresa fue la encargada de los últimos espectáculos de Depeche Mode y U2 en la región y todos ellos se han convertido en éxitos de venta desde sus primeras horas. Si usted aún no ha ido por su boleto le comentamos que los puede adquirir en el quiosco del Mall Multiplaza y en la agencia BAC Suyapa.
Usted aún puede comprar su entrada. Los precios son los siguientes: Platinum, L 2.266; Silla VIP, L 1.150; Grama, L 652; y Grada, L 378. Parte de los fondos de este concierto serán destinados a Funniño, ONG que trabaja con infantes en riesgo social.

HONDURAN ART-- MAIN PAINTERS

"To make their work, our artists not only use their hands and eyes, they let their hearts and souls conduct them in the creation of their fine art." The Constitution of the Republic of Honduras recognizes our culture in Articles 172, 173 and 174, as an expression of the country of Honduras. It says that, in Article 172, "All anthropological, archeological, historic, and artistic riches of Honduras form part of the National Cultural Heritage. The law will establish standards that will work as a basis for its conservation, restoration, maintenance and restitution in this case. It is every Honduran's duty to conserve their preservation, and not to allow it to be taken away."

The National Art Gallery in Tegucigalpa houses collections of different forms of art spanning 7,000 years of work by Honduran artists, from paleolithic times to today.

Paintings The historic evolution of the Honduran painting can be outlined in four categories: 1. The Pre-hispanic Era; 2. The Colonial Era; 3. The Post-independent Era; 4. The Liberal Post-Reform. The set of these eras, is in itself, an evolution in ascending meaning. A historic march that comes from primitive stages, and reaches up until today, when the Honduran society's standards are governing others work and organization. The art, though, by its characteristics of relative autonomy, is dissociated from this ascending course, and it evolves on its own, though impregnated by the influence that each era provides   In the 30's decade, Jose Antonio Velasquez excels, considered the first primitivist artist of Honduras. Like in all primitivist paintings, the tablos of Velasquez are characterized by the ingenuity and tranquility in the atmosphere which he conveys.

Important Artists Other Honduran painters that have been recognized for their works at a national and international level are: Carlos Garay, Roque Zelaya Acosta, Dante Lazzaroni, Ricardo Aguilar, Moises Becerra, Benigno Gomez, Gregorio Sabilloon, Ezequiel Padilla, Julio Visquerra, Hermes Armijo Maltez, Felipe Burchard, Alejo Lara, Jesus Valladares, Rony Castillo, Maury Flores, Alfredo Garay, Armando Lara, Marco Rietti, Edwin Perdomo, Enrique Escher, Celsa Flores, Raul Lainez, Allan Caicedo, Geovany Flores, Miguel Angel Ruiz, Clementina Suarez, Ricardo Aguilar, Ernesto Argueta, Alvaro Canales, Mario Castillo, Anibal Cruz, Dino Fanconi, Teresita Fortin, Carlos Garay, Gelasio Gimenez, Benigno Gomez, Virgilio Guardiola, Juan Ramon Lainez, Mario Castillo, Mario Mejia, Oscar Mendoza, Luis H. Padilla, Efrain Portillo, Cesar Rendon, and Manuel Rodriguez.

Pinto Rodezno

Watching the paintings of Pinto Rodezno is to penetrate in a world of magic corridors where surprises emerge in any moment; where the sound of bells and the reflections of the streets, like if they were mirrors, make us feel and smell the jasmines and bougainvillea. This description of Pinto Rodezno by Julio Visquerra let us know the personality of a young and modern artist who united his pictorial creativity in the vision of the urban significance. He has exposed in Quebec, Geneva, Miami, San Juan, New Orleans and Barcelona, among other international cities.

Asked about the motif of one of his paintings, Mr. Rodezno said that the "rain of fish" is a popular theme in Honduran paintings. It is based on a phenomenon that occurred in the Department of Yoro in north-central Honduras.

"People there awoke one morning after a thunderstorm and found the ground covered with fish," said Rodezno. "This phenomenon still occurs from time to time."

Roque Zelaya

The beauty of a painting makes people speechless. These words of Lucian Freud describes Zelaya as an artist who puts his heart in his artworks. The painting of Roque is a memorable discovery in the international plastic art. Roque Zelaya of "The Language of the Flowers" is a paintbrush gardener, universal and outstanding painter who creates perfect and fine artworks. The ability in the details, the perfectionism in the drawings and the elegance in the popular representations, constitutes the keys of the ingenious painting of Roque Zelaya.

Dario A. Rivera Trejo

Concerned by the process and technique of arts, Dario experienced in different ways, identifying the materials to make of them creative artistic works, In his incursions in the sculpture and paintings he has his particular knowledge managing different materials to make a job of real and imaginary spaces where he losses the stilling form to duplicate and delight in uncertain directions, converting it in images that levitate and celebrate their liberation. Dario has exposed in Italy, U.S.A., Nicaragua, Mexico, France.

Jesus Antonio Zelaya

"Who paints and sculpts what he sees is not an artist, only the one who paints and sculpt what he feels, may be considered like that. To my knowledge, this is the case of the sculpture of Jesus Antonio Zelaya." With this words Benigno Gomez, a graduated of the School of Belle Arts of Rome describes the magnificent artworks of this incredible artist. Concentration, faith, patience, and perseverance are always with him. In such way we have the joy to admire the positive results of a sculptor who gives life to logs.

Carlos Garay

Landscapes by Carlos Garay are the representation of his homeland: Honduras. He unifies a colored poetry with the shining American impressionism. It comes up from his palette to immortalize his art and his thematic in the same way Master Antonio Velasquez did it. We could call the trilogy of daydreams and reality: Honduras-Velasquez-Garay. His artworks can be admired in multiple galleries, public and private in Mexico Finland, U.S.A., Sweden, Russia, Israel and the Vatican among many others. His biography is very well explained in the British Encyclopedia 6-15 edition 1986.

Julio Visquerra

Without any kind of incentives to guide him into the artistic activities, Visquerra found his way selling books and restoring antiques in Spain and France. With this humble position he had the chance to visit museums and private galleries, meeting many painters. For him, fruits are the unequivocal symbol representing life, hope and movement. Starting when he was 12 years old, his paintings connect human and animal figures with vegetables and we can find tropical rhythm and taste. Dreams and reality, fantasy and objectivity, irony and harshness. Life is beautiful, death is sad. Mystery and reality meet each other.

MAFFELA (Maria Ofelia Garcia Casanova)

Since 1986 MAFFELA has ventures in the plastics arts exposing her artworks in San Salvador, Miami, Washington, D.C., New Orleans and many other international cities. Well educated in English, drawing and painting, Beauty stylist, organ player and specialist in tourism, MAFFELA has been honored with different national and international awards as a modern artist exposing her talented artworks.

Dylber Obed Padilla

Winner of the Paul Gaugin Prize, offered by the Embassy of France in Honduras, Dylber Obed Padilla combines black, red, blue and brick colors, playing with them to create stealthy figures, adding warm and yellow tones to make formal expressions. Dylber is not only an artist in paintings; he started his works as sculptor modeling forms of strong, formal and impressive impact with unusual and irreverent expressions.

Jose R. Ruiz

The live expressions in the artworks of this talented artist transports to the viewer to an unreal world of fantasies and daydreams. His open mind reveals with the paintbrush his creativity and beauty of an emergent new style. The combination of green, yellow, red and blue converge in a colorful scenery to delight the most sophisticated taste in the plastic arts. Considered one of the youngest Honduran artist, has exposed his artworks in several public and private galleries in different countries.

Yovany Adonay Navarro

Clay, wood, rocks, marble, iron or what ever Navarro touches with his privileged hands is converted in a sculpture. His artworks are exposed around the world in private collections and museums, reflecting the admiration for the magic involved in every sculptures and painting. Exposing in "La Memoria presente dalla Shoah alla Cultura di pace" in Italy or "Daily Scenes" in Saint Peter, USA, is a demonstration of the technique and quality of Navarro's fine artworks.

JOHN WATERS- DIRECTOR DE CINE DE CONTRACULTURA

JOHN WATERS Uno de los grandes reyes de la contracultura, la basura y el cine underground. Irreverente hasta la saciedad, John Waters nació en Baltimore en 1946, ciudad en la que ha rodado todas sus películas. Pero... ¿quién es este tipo? Desde pequeño ha estado obsesionado con la violencia, el sexo y la suciedad. Considerándose un freak desde siempre (y probablemente lo sea), comenzó a rodar pequeños filmes en 8 y 16 mm hasta que, en 1972, llegara la mítica Pink Flamingos, una historia sobre Divine, un travestido autoconsiderado la persona más guarra del mundo. Sucesivas escenas de perversiones que se rematan con la ingesta de una auténtica cagada de perro. Sí, sí, auténtica. Continúa haciendo cine-basura (apelativo nada peyorativo) hasta que llega Hairspray, una comedia sobre la juventud América, tupés y con su toque especial, que le abriría las puertas de Hollywood. Su estilo narrativo y visual se relaja, pero jamás, hasta la actualidad, pierde su sello y su burla de la sociedad norteAméricana. ¿Qué es el cine trash? Contracultura, suciedad, sexo explícito y nada común, violencia, situaciones estrambóticas y, no siempre, ácida crítica. John Waters es una de sus más grandes cabezas, seguida de uno de sus directores favoritos: Pedro Almodóvar (en sus comienzos, claro). Pepi, Lucy y Boom o Laberinto de Pasiones dejan claras las conexiones entre ambos. ¿Qué películas hay que ver? Evidentemente, este es de los pocos casos en los que hay que ver todas. Mejores y peores, el inconfundible sello de John Waters hace de todas sus obras películas que escapan a los clichés tradicionales. Aun así, intentando jerarquizar un poco, desde luego, la primera es Pink Flamingos. Eso sí, hay que preparar el estómago y la moral, no vaya a ser que entren ambos en estado de shock. Dentro de la etapa menos underground, no os perdáis Hairspray. Pecket y Los Asesinatos de Mamá, rodados como sencillas comedias, mantienen su esencia irreverente, pero más explícita. Y desde aquí lo agradecemos. Treinta años después, hacer lo mismo es un poco aburrido. Un par de curiosidades John Waters no deja lo estrambótico sólo para el cine. Auténtico amante del trash, declara abiertamente que una de sus mayores aficiones es la de asistir a los juicios. Sin ir más lejos, no se perdió uno solo de la familia Manson. Realizó un spot para los cines de EEUU recordando que no se debía fumar en las salas. Aparecía él, en un plano medio, fumando unas saboreadas caladas mientras insistía al público que no podía hacer exactamente eso por muchas ganas que tuvieran. Al final, se fuma más de medio cigarro de una calada.

Ricky Martin, too Gay For Honduras

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Too Gay For Honduras

I was frankly amazed to read in Thursday's El Heraldo that Ricky Martin, the Puerto Rican pop singer who is openly gay, might bedenied a visa to enter Honduras and give a concert, solely because he's gay.

None the less, that's more or less what Áfrico Madrid, Interior Minister, (the man who banned Halloween in Honduras) told El Heraldo. In an interview he said that he had received pressure, though no written requests, from the church organizations of Honduras to deny him a visa because he was a bad example for families in Honduras. Madrid told El Heraldo:

"It is through the departmental rules that we will analyze the request they presented to hold the event and in all cases it is the management, based on the convenience and to safeguard the moral and ethical principles of our society, that will authorize or not the event."

"Representatives of the Christian churches, Evangelical and Catholic of Honduras, have asked that we not authorize the permission because he is not a good family example,....this is not the type of family that the laws of Honduras and Honduran society want to construct and promote in the young and the rest of the population."

Ricky Martin, openly gay since 2010, lives with his two children and his partner.

Just to be clear, Honduras cannot legally deny a person admission just because they are gay. As Sandra Ponce was forced to point out today in response to Áfrico Madrid's insanity, to deny him entrance would be a violation of the Honduran constitution, human rights, and international treaties to which Honduras is signatory.

But the fine points of law, like the Honduran constitution and human rights, often seem to be beyond the grasp of Áfrico Madrid