I met Miguel Torres when he drove me to a music practice in his taxi. I don’t remember what song it was, but the song he had on the car stereo struck me as highly unusual music for a taxi driver. We started a conversation about music, and he told me he too was a musician (and a mac user) and had produced and recorded a cd of his music and was working on the second one.

From there I’m glad to say that I have become one of his friends, for he doesn’t have many. I’ve spent many a night in conversation with his wife, his 6-year old daughter, his best friend and fellow taxi driver José Luis, or just playing music. I’ve also had the privilege of sharing the stage with him once.

Our latest project together was this video, which we recorded on the streets of Monterrey last Saturday. It is my first shot at video direction and production. I hope you enjoy it.

This is a montage a friend of mine and fellow blogger made of images of the holocaust and an interview on the air with Radio Globo director David Romero Elmer a few days before the station was shut down. I am not justifying its closure, but merely exposing the kind of opinions aired there. The following is a translated transcript of the interview.

ANCHORMAN: “Five pm with 12 minutes, Five pm with 12 minutes, we have more last-minute information with our executive director the Licenciado David Romero Elmer.

Good afternoon Mr. David.”

ROMERO: “Good afternoon Rodmey. Good afternoon Franky. A good afternoon the the audience of Radio Globo. We have been really a bit busy working on a series of investigations.

It is worrying, what is happening to the president, Manuel Zelaya Rosales, in the interior of the Brazilian embassy. That is why we have taken up the task to find out who could have set forth to…

I wonder, could there be Hondurans with the evil…with the capacity for such great evil to do what is being done to Manuel Zelaya Rosales and the people who are in the inside {of the embassy}? Are there Hondurans, I ask myself, who play so evil?

I have asked myself. I am Honduran. I was born in this country. I think I am old enough to evaluate the typical behavior of Hondurans no matter the position of the institution they may represent. I have asked myself, ‘Is there a Honduran, dressed in a uniform or not, capable of doing what is being done here; trying to poison the president of the Republic?’ I have found out that probably not. They may be accomplices. But Hondurans, when they find someone to help them do evil, they do do evil.

Sometimes I wonder if Hitler wasn’t right to have exterminated that race with the famous Holocaust. If there is a people who do harm in this country it is the Jews, the Israelites. I want this afternoon to say on Radio Globo, the full name of the two officers of the Jewish army that are working with the armed forces our country and who are in charge of doing all these acts of conspiracy, undercover activities, and everything that is happening to the president of the Republic.

After I have found this out I have asked myself, ‘Why?’ Why didn’t we let Hitler accomplish his historical mission? Forgive my sudden grotesque expression. But, after I have found this out, and many other things, I ask myself…”