Viva! (magazine)

VIVA! MAGAZINE is a Canadian newsmagazine, created by publisher and editor-in-chief Juan Carlos Cordero (former UPI News Agency, CNN en Español correspondent, La Tercera, VEA, Triunfo and Deporte Total magazines, among other media works for TV, radio, print and Internet), and it is targeted to Spanish-speaking people first to third generation. It started publishing Spanish only edition, which continues on the Internet under Colombian entrepreneur Claudia Patricia Jimenez's www.paseoespana.com umbrella, while the new one - real-time media - is being developed to be www.vivamagazine.net, by international webmaster Rodrigo Mazzo (See also Chilevision [http://www.chilevision.cl] ).

The magazine's mission is to allows Latin Americans and Spaniards in North America to follow the hard news events, features and special reports in politics, economics, entertainment, arts and culture, fashion and trends, among other departments, with their own perspectives and contribute to their residence's countries (either United States or Canada) with their own voices and opinions. With special correspondents in all the countries, Juan Carlos Cordero's team is aiming to publish in Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese during 2007. The magazine's mother company has been working also launching and promoting international artists such as Rosita Stone [http://www.rositastone.com] and soon to be full-blown in Latin America and Brazil with Canadian top-charting artists Belly [http://www.bellylive.com] and Massari [http://www.massarionline.com] , as well as Veronica Meza ( [http://www.veronicameza.ca] , Julio Cesar Filici and other Latin pop and rock gigs.

See also Paseo España [http://www.paseoespana.com] .