Echoing the Candidates' Words, In Spanish Sep 9, 2007
His is the voice of presidents, but tomorrow night in Miami -- after much study and meditation, an energy bar, almonds and water without ice -- Vincente J. de la Vega will lend it to Barack Obama ... For 90 minutes the Havana-born de la Vega will do his best to "become" the African American senator from Illinois ... Whatever Obama says during the Democratic presidential candidates debate in Miami, de la Vega will say it for him -- in Spanish. (CBS News)
Back In The Game: Part 2 Sep 1, 2007
(The original site was in the central town of La Vega, but was relocated to Via Mella in 2001. . (Philadelphia, TheInsiders.com)
Street: Reject Democrats Calm May 5, 2007
Most Americans have long believed that Bushs case for invading Iraq was fraudulent (de la Vega 2006, p. 18) ... As Elizabeth de la Vega notes in her provocative bookUnitedStates V. George Bush (New York: Seven Stories, 2006), "thepropositionthat it is not good politicalstrategy to insist that government officials obey the law is highly debatable. More important, strategizing in the face of an ongoing crime is wrong. Ask any legislator whether he would strategize about possible... (Zmag.org)
What ever happened to liberal humor?LifeVisitors find beauty, baseball and bounty in the Dominican Republic Feb 3, 2007
In the cities we passed through, like La Vega and Bonao, locals set up roadside shops in small wooden huts. Some sold coconuts, fruit, or roasted pigs. (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, VA)