Sex in the city ( Bar Owner Offers Up Sex with Waitress as Raffle Prize )

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A Spanish bar owner is being criticized for offering sex with one of his waitresses as a raffle prize.
According to local reports, on posters for an upcoming party at Contrapunto bar in Salobreno, owner Miguel Ángel Cortés advertised raffle prizes. Among those prizes, however, was sex with one of the waitresses.
Residents spotted the posters and brought the “prize” to the attention of officials at the local town hall.
Cortés was warned that if he were to have the party and raffle of the waitress he would face criminal charges. To avoid the legal ramifications, he canceled the even all together and apologized, saying he was sorry if he offended anyone.

GUATEMALA CITY ( Journalist Shot in Guatemala )

Journalist Shot in Guatemala

GUATEMALA CITY – Journalist Fredy Rodas was shot as he was going home on Guatemala’s south coast and is recovering at a hospital in this capital, doctors said Tuesday.

The attack occurred Monday night in the city of Mazatenango.

Rodas, a journalist for Sonora Es La Noticia radio and a collaborator with several other media outlets, was hit by at least three bullets, one of which wounded his right eye, Dr. Jose Arriola said at Roosevelt Hospital.

The patient is in stable condition, Arriola said.

The motive of the attack is as yet unknown, though Rodas has said he received a threat on the telephone, but gave no further details.

“We are hurt, distressed and dismayed” by the attact on Rodas, the director of Sonora Es La Noticia radio, Arnulfo Agustin Guzman, said, after visiting the victim in hospital and urging the authorities to find those responsible.

On Aug. 6 the journalist Luis de Jesus Lima was gunned down in the eastern province of Zacapa, where he directed a radio program.

Guatemala is among a number of countries, including Haiti, India, Mexico, Nigeria and Yemen, where journalists find themselves at increasing risk, according to a report released last month by the Press Emblem Campaign.

Lima’s murder brings to three the number of journalists slain in Guatemala so far this year. EFE

Mexico ( Mexico to Fight Death Sentence for 3 Mexicans in Malaysia )

MEXICO CITY – The Mexican government vowed Wednesday to ensure that all legal remedies are exhausted on behalf of three of its citizens who are facing the hangman’s noose in Malaysia for drug trafficking.

The Mexican foreign ministry made the commitment hours after Malaysia’s Court of Appeals upheld the death sentences imposed on brothers Luis Alfonso, Jose Regino and Simon Gonzalez Villarreal.

Mexico “maintains a position contrary to the death penalty” and will actively monitor the course of the Gonzalez Villarreal brothers’ appeal to Malaysia’s Supreme Federal Court, the foreign ministry said in a statement.

The brothers and two other men – a Singaporean and a Malaysian – were arrested by police in a Dec. 4, 2008, raid that resulted in the seizure of 29 kilos (64 pounds) of methamphetamines worth 44 million ringgit ($15 million).

The three Mexicans testified at their May 2012 trial that they were merely cleaning the clandestine drug-making factory where they were detained.

None of the brothers has a criminal record in Mexico.

News that the Malaysian appellate court rejected the trio’s appeal stunned the Gonzalez Villarreal family, who had expected a more favorable outcome.

The brothers accuse Malaysian authorities of making them into scapegoats because they don’t speak the language and lack the means to defend themselves in court. EFE

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San Diego ( San Diego Mayor - Banned from " Hooters restaurant " ) Step Down

The alleged harasser is getting some feminist-y pushback from a boob-themed restaurant. And yes, Glenn Beck is involved.
America likes its political scandals to include a helping of sex. Otherwise, Americans tend to ignore them.
In Virginia, for example, Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) is fighting for his political life amid revelations that he accepted more than $120,000 in dodgy gifts and loans from a political donor, while the frontrunner to replace him, Democrat Terry McAuliffe, is facing federal scrutiny over his electric-car company, GreenTech Automotive. The national response? Crickets.


Serial sexter Anthony Weiner, on the other hand, is a national news sensation, despite the fact that he won't be New York City's next mayor. And then there's the tawdry tale of Bob Filner, the mayor of San Diego, who has been accused of sexual harassment by more than a dozen women, earning him a recall effort, politicians' near-unanimous calls for him to step down — and a ban from Hooters.
Yes, that's right: The original "breastaurant" is so outraged by how Filner, a Democrat, allegedly treats his female subordinates that San Diego area locations are threatening to deny him service. San Diego Republican Party executive director Francis Barraza, who apparently just happened to be stopping by for a quick meal at the cleavage-themed restaurant, posted the proof on Twitter:

My local @hooters won't serve Bob #Filner. #stepintoawesome #respect #lunch pic.twitter.com/oK7iTYOlbR
— Francis Barraza (@FrancisBarraza) August 13, 2013
Melissa Fry, a representative for Hooters West Coast franchiser HootWinc, confirmed to Slate's David Weigel that all four area locations are posting the sign, though she says it isn't for "a political move for us in any way, shape, or form." No, Fry says, Hooters is "strictly taking a stand for the fair treatment of women. At our franchise alone, we employ 1,100 beautiful, talented women." The national chain isn't involved, but it is on board:

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