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Last night the 2009 Los Premios MTV went off with a bang in Bogota, and I'm pretty sure you'll be happy to know that some of your favorites won in some cool categories, including...

Lady Gaga: "Best International New Artist”  and “Song of The Year”

Jonas Brothers: "Best International Pop Artist”

Twilight: "Best Film"

Britney Spears: Best Fan Club (Venezuela)

Winsin Y Yandel: "Artist Of The Year" and "Video Of The Year" for "Abusadora"

Aventura: "Best Artist MTV TR3s"

Check out photos of some of the performers -- Ashley Tisdale, Cobra Starship, Fall Out Boy -- and presenters -- Selena Gomez, Miranda Cosgrove, Morrissey (!), Audrina Patridge (who spoke presented with Wilmer Valderrama and spoke Spanish!), and co-hosts Nelly Furtado and Calle 13's Residente. And get the complete list of 2009 Los Premios MTV, check out photos, and watch videos. And get a play-by-play, behind-the-scenes report of all of the action at the 2009 Los Premios MTV at the MTV Tr3s Blogamole Blog!

+ Check out more photos from the 2009 Los Premios MTV after the jump!

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+ Fresh off the plane from her recent visit to Australia, Taylor Swift just posted a homecoming video on her MySpace page, and it's so sweet it'll have you slipping off into a sugar coma. Picture it: She's holding a koala bear like it's a baby ready to be burped, and, it pulls her in for a closer hug because, you know, she's THAT sweet. (MySpace Music)

+ Just because she's sweet, however, does NOT mean that Taylor Swift wants to talk about sex. (People)

+ Hot off the heels of last fall's collabo with Eminem, Puerto Rican duo Calle 13 are lacing one of the tracks off the rapper's upcoming album titled Relapse. (Blogamole)

+ Is Fantastic Four actor Chris Evans finally getting serious about his career? (MTV Movies Blog)

+ Please God will someone cut off both of Heidi Montag's hands at the wrist so that she can't put a set of headphones on in a recording studio ever again. (Hollywood Tuna)

+ If you ever wondered what Zac Efron looks like covered in mud (you know, if you were ever just bored with nothing to do except wonder about things), Interview magazine's got your back. Oh. and Happy St Patty's Day. (Interview)

+ Mix your own Daft Punk song. You too, Kanye! (Najle)

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This week, we're taking a look back at los Artists of the Week quien aren't Américains. So let's revisit some of our most talented foreign friends, non?

Kate Nash: The sometimes-sweet, sometimes-sour British singer-songwriter played plucky piano and extolled the virtues of her favorite baked goods. Meanwhile, several of you applauded yourself for knowing about the British first. Watch Kate Nash's Artist of the Week videos here.

Calle 13: Puerto Rican duo Residente y Visitante got lyrically, metaphorically, bombastically political in their Artist of the Week spots, which were centered around the importance of voting in the 2008 American presidential election. Watch Calle 13's Artist of the Week videos here.

Paddy Casey: The disarmingly soulful Irish singer-songwriter painted broad strokes of Bob Dylan with his hit, "Addicted to Company," and won us over with quirky covers of Outkast and Blackstreet. Watch him warm up a stool in his favorite pub and gain the support of a church choir in his Artist of the Week videos.

Yelle: The quirky, flirty French Tecktonik hip-hop tart engaged in universal boy-issue lament set to hyper computerized blips and beeps and Casio beats. Watch Yelle's Artist of the Week videos here.

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When you're finished up with your birthday cards for Kathy Griffin and Diddy (oh, you didn't know it's Diddy's birthday today? I'm sure he'll remind you via some swaggertastic, anti-bitch-assedness viral video), don't forget to go do your civic duty! And no, I'm not referring to bangin' the booty, in the immortal words of Booty Juice.

Take a cue from the late, great Deee-Lite -- seen here in a 1992 MTV Rock the Vote spot -- and vote, baby, vote!

+  Plus: check out MTV Choose or Lose voting videos by Fall Out Boy, Pink, Calle 13, Murs, and Locksley, and find out more about the election at think.mtv.com.

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At this point in the American presidential election cycle -– we’re down to a month and two days! -– you’re either glued to CNN/ MSNBC/ Fox News (really?)/ HufPo/ Think, and/or your go-to politiblog, or you’re so numbed by rhetoric/ metaphor/ angry ads/ your best friend’s cray-cray rantings/ that you’ve resigned yourself to watching Animal Planet until November 4th (and possibly for a few months past the election if the events of 2000 still haunt you).

Both routes are extreme and extremely understandable. But if you’re at least 18 and don’t plan on voting, then I do hope you don’t plan on bitching for the next four to eight years. Well, you can bitch, but no one’s gonna feel too sorry if you get all emo about American politics and its varied injustices when you at least had the chance to go out and vote. (And THAT, my friends, is Civics 101!)

And speaking of calling out injustices, this week’s Artist of the Week is Calle 13, Puerto Rican urban artists -- some call it reggaeton, others call it hip-hop, but Residente and Visitante call it rap with world music --- with a rich history of raising a proverbial fist (and finger) and calling out injustices like they sees 'em.

To borrow a few palabras from our friends at MTV Tr3s, "Calle 13’s swift lyrical metaphors about social injustice and violent imagery are too thick to slice into one genre." And after picking up five Latin Grammys (and a 2008 Grammy), and stirring up their share of controversy along the way, the fearlessly outspoken duo (they weren't compared to Eminem for nothing!) is prepping their third LP, Los de Atras Vienen Conmigo, for its October 7th release. But before they drop it, Calle 13 is dropping in on MTV with their own little breed of campaigning.

Calle 13’s election-themed Artist of the Week videos -- watch them all here and check out exclusive photos here -- were filmed on location at a bar in Puerto Rico. Check them out below, and after the jump, watch Residente and Visitante (with their sister, PG-13) dropping words like allegorical bombs at the 2008 MTV Tr3s VMA Pre-Party.

And please, go vote? Please? Even if it’s for the wrong guy?

+ Watch four exclusive live Calle 13 performances (and more performances here), get a First Look at their new video, "No Hay Nadie Como Tu," and get more Calle 13 at MTV Tr3s and on the Blogamole blog. And for more election coverage, check out Think.mtv.com!

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