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9 May 2012

Video: Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards Voting Open

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Arts & Culture, Health

Young underprivileged youth learning multi-media tools are showcasing their work through The Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards. Entries include documentaries, music videos, poetry, audio, graphic design, narrative, animation and photography.

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13 April 2012

Internet Campaigns Invite Tourists to Visit Latin America

Written by Juan Arellano · Translated by Jon Lindsay Miles · Travel, Economics & Business

There are many web pages and blogs used to promote tourism in Latin America. We provide links to some of these pages here, and share a conversation with Global Voices author Jorge Gobbi, who is a specialist blogger on the subject of tourism.

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28 March 2012

‘Mujeres Construyendo': Empowering Women, One Blog at a Time

Written by Silvia Vinas · Translated by Kathryn Morgan · Blogger Profiles

Mujeres Construyendo, the first platform for female bloggers in Spanish, wants to convert Hispanic women into creators of internet content. We talk to its founder, Claudia Calvin, about this growing community of bloggers.

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29 February 2012

Uruguay: Scenes From the Longest Carnival in the World

Written by Silvia Viñas · Arts & Culture, Music

Every year, Uruguayans celebrate the longest carnival in the world. Percussionists, dancers and musical and theatrical performers take center stage for over 40 days. Sites and blogs dedicated to the event keep netizens around the world informed on the different aspects of carnival, while bloggers share photos, videos, and thoughts on this celebration of culture and heritage.

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3 January 2012

Latin America, 2011: A Year Marked by Social Movements

Written by Silvia Viñas · Education, Environment

Citizens across the world took to the streets in 2011, and Latin America was no exception. In this post we look at the social movements that marked 2011 in South and Central America and how protests, vigils, marches and occupations were covered and analyzed through citizen media.

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27 December 2011

‘Developing Latin America': Open Data Projects

Written by Juan Arellano · Translated by Kathryn Morgan · Technology for Transparency Network

The 'Desarrollando Latin América' (Developing Latin America) competition, a public hackathon for creating technological solutions to education, security and budgetary problems in six countries in the region, took place on the 3rd and 4th of December. Juan Arellano, who acted as a judge in Lima (Peru), summarises the results and the reactions from the participants.

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2 February 2011

Latin America: Drawing Parallels with Egypt

Written by Silvia Viñas · History, Protest

As protests in Egypt continue, Latin American bloggers are drawing historical parallels with similar uprisings in the region and some are wondering: “Could it happen here now?”

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29 December 2010

Latin America: 2010 in Review

Written by Silvia Viñas · Arts & Culture, Disaster

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile, a police strike in Ecuador and the Nobel Prize in Literature for Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa were some of the news bloggers and citizen media users reported and analyzed this year. Let's take a look at these and other stories the Latin American team covered in 2010.

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22 October 2010

Uruguayans Mourn Death of Musician José Carbajal, ‘El Sabalero'

Written by Silvia Viñas · Arts & Culture, Music

Singer and composer José Carbajal, nicknamed "el Sabalero," died of a heart attack on October 21 at age 66. Carbajal is considered an icon of Uruguayan culture. This year he was working with other artists and the One Laptop per Child project in Uruguay, Plan Ceibal, to perform in concerts for public school children around the country.

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22 May 2010

Uruguay: Silent March Remembering Disappeared Detainees

Written by Silvia Viñas · Human Rights, Protest

This year marked the 15th silent march that takes place every May 20 in remembrance of those detained and disappeared during the military dictatorship of Uruguay.

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Updates about Uruguay

4 May 2012

Spanish

Gabriel Budiño blogs [es] about recent articles that look at how politicians in Uruguay are using Twitter. One article calls Twitter “the next political trench”, while the other says that politics is not compatible with Twitter's 140 characters.

• Silvia Viñas

20 April 2012

Spanish

In the blog El informante [es] (”The informant”), journalist Leonardo Haberkorn looks at how his colleagues are using Twitter and other social networks to report and present their investigations. He looks at a couple of specific examples where Uruguayan journalists failed to cover an investigation in depth and instead focused on superficial details based on information found on social networks.

• Silvia Viñas

9 April 2012

Spanish

A documentary [es] on the development of Jewish Town in Montevideo, Uruguay was shared by the Latin Americanist in honor of the recently celebrated Passover.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

3 April 2012

English

Julio F. posts a photo essay of the Autumn candombe parade in Malvín, a neighborhood in Montevideo, Uruguay.

• Silvia Viñas

13 March 2012

Spanish

Ahni announces the upcoming Spanish edition of Intercontinental Cry [es], which will go live on March 31, 2012. “The main objective of IC Espanol is, of course, to provide Spanish readers with the same news that our English readers have come to expect from us; what I consider to be essential news on the global indigenous movement.” Find out about more languages on the IC Translation Project Facebook page.

• Silvia Viñas

8 March 2012

Spanish

The Organization of Ibero-American States invites teens ages 12 to 15 to enter a blogging competition about reading. The sign up [es] deadline is May 31, 2012, and judges will consider blog posts written until July 31. The winner from each participating country will receive an iPad. Visit the official website [es] and follow the hashtag #questasleyendo [es] (”what are you reading”) to find out more about the contest.

• Silvia Viñas

5 March 2012

Spanish

Blogger Fonzi from Con la cámara en el bolsillo [es] (”With a camera in my pocket”) posts images of a house in Montevideo with images of comics painted on its facade.

• Silvia Viñas

16 February 2012

Spanish

In the blog El Cielo es Verde [es], Fernando Bernini critiques the Twitter strategy of La Cigale (@HeladosLaCigale), a well-know Uruguayan ice cream parlor.

• Silvia Viñas

24 January 2012

Spanish

The International Center for Arts of the Americas (ICCA) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has released a digital archive of 20th-century Latin American and Latino art, which, “is now available, free of charge, to the research and teaching community as well as to the public at large.” Culture magazine Ñ [es] briefly interviewed Mari Carmen Ramírez, the project's director.

• Silvia Viñas

16 January 2012

English

After running into a Uruguayan artisan who turns waste products into beautiful and useful objects, Lucía Terra shows how to turn an empty coffee bag into a wallet by upcycling. “And 10 minutes later had my own upcycled, colorful, waterproof wallet with triple compartments for coins, small bills, and large bills. On top of everything, it smells like coffee. Isn't that much nicer than dirty coin smell?”

• Paula Góes