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Mexico City.– Colombian singer Shakira announced Thursday that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim and American Howard Buffett will donate US$200 million to a foundation that helps poor children in Latin America.
Slim, Mexico's richest man, will donate US$110 million and his business expertise. Buffett, son of investment guru Warren Buffett, will give US$85 million. The other US$5 million will be donated by people throughout Latin America.
«Imagine what Latin America could achieve if we invest in developing the potential of these children,» Shakira said.
The Latin America in Solidarity Action –whose Spanish acronym is ALAS, or «wings» – was launched in 2006 with a promise to tackle poverty that kills an estimated 350,000 children each year in the region.
Conceived by Shakira, the foundation is also backed by Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Spanish singers Miguel Bose and Alejandro Sanz.
ALAS will host two massive, simultaneous concerts Saturday in Buenos Aires and Mexico City to raise awareness about 32 million children living in poverty Latin America.
The concerts will include Puerto Rican pop star Ricky Martin, the Mexican norteno group Los Tigres and Dominican singer Juan Luis Guerra among others.
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If the $200 M is invested in low risk securities for 5%, every year the dough generates about $10,000,000, less broker feees. Half of the $10 M can be used for relief and assistance for low income Latin American children. And the other half can be plowed back into the principal for a sustainable program that survives inflation.
Shakira's job seems to be to bring onboard the big names of the Latin American entertainment and art world.
Slim's job seems to be to bring the world's billionaires onboard. He got Buffet.
With this kind of money in promise-land, why money-making concerts with top stars in Mexico City and Buenos Aires, huh?
HUH?
"To raise awareness about 32 million children living in poverty Latin America? "
People are aware of the poor kids, but people are crippled morally by bourgeois ideology.
Shakira possesses not only an extraordinary artistic gift for music, but she also has genius. Her IQ is reputed to be in 150s. Plus, there's streak of toughness in her.
So, the reactionary bourgeoisie is trying to dominate her politically and ideologically or trying to keep her away from the bourgeois liberals and of course the leftists, especially FARC. Evidently, the reactionary bourgeois haven't been entirely successful in ideologically isolating Shakira, because the DT article mentions she got Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez onboard.
Bourgeoisie, the class to which Shakira belongs, knows that Shakira, with a net worth of about $40,000,000, is 4th richest woman in music in the world after the bourgeois tramps Madonna, Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion.
http://www.boxxet.com/Shakira/Sha....man_in_music_says_Forbes.1ifb2t.d