Mitchell G. Patton

The launch of the new song by the Colombian Shakira together with Bizarrap, 'Music Sessions #53', ended a revolution. In less than three hours after being officially launched, on the Argentine producer's YouTube account, it already had almost five million views. The lyrics of Shakira's new musical production are an attack on her ex-partner, the former Spanish soccer player Gerard Piqué, to whom she had already thrown some hints in her two previous releases, 'Te felicito' and 'Monotonía'. This time he was much more direct."This is for me to mortify you, chew and swallow, swallow and chewAnd with you I…

daniel brownBBC World, Caracas20 September 2014image source, Gettycaption, According to doctors, Simonovis suffers from 19 chronic medical conditions.Iván Simonovis, the Venezuelan commissioner who was jailed this Saturday, is not only a name linked to the events surrounding the failed coup against Hugo Chávez in 2002. He is also a symbol of Venezuela's recent history. A symbol, of course, of that April 11 -the day of the failed coup- that marked the government of the late president politically, economically and socially.And a symbol, very much, of the divided Venezuela that these 15 years of the Bolivarian revolution have left behind.For Chavismo,…

First lady Jill Biden had two cancerous lesions removed Wednesday, the White House physician said in a memo.The first lady, 71, had gone to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to have a small lesion over her right eye surgically removed. He was discovered in a skin cancer screening. "The procedure confirmed that the small lesion was a basal cell carcinoma," Dr. Kevin O'Connor said in a statement.A second lesion, also confirmed to be basal cell carcinoma, was found on the left side of Biden's chest during his preoperative consultation, according to his memo. Both were removed in an outpatient…