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17 May 2012

Paraguay: A Look Inside Aché Indigenous Communities

Written by Silvia Viñas · Indigenous, Citizen Media

For much of their history, the Aché indigenous people in Paraguay have been struggling to preserve their territory. Now, the Aché are using citizen media to preserve their language and their culture.

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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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23 March 2011

Paraguay: Photo Blog Reveals Dangers of Childbirth

Written by Belen Bogado · Health, Indigenous

Most Paraguayans are not aware of the high rates of death from childbirth and abortion in the country. These issues are rarely reported on mainstream media. This is why running into Rodrigo Alfaro’s photo blog post on death from childbirth in Paraguay is horrifying and shocking --even for a Paraguayan.

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4 February 2011

Peru: New Strain of Dengue Spreads in the Amazon

Written by Isabel Guerra · Translated by Damien Moroney · Breaking News, Health

A dengue outbreak that emerged in the Peruvian Amazon region of Loreto has easily spread through several neighbouring regions. On the 1st of February, four confirmed cases had been officially reported in Lima, the Peruvian capital.

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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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14 September 2010

Paraguayans, their paramours and the MP7

Written by The Economist · Arts & Culture, Humor

I host a radio show in Asunción, Paraguay’s capital. Every Friday afternoon I ask my listeners for real stories, to help them relax in this city’s traffic. And it was during one of these Friday-afternoon call-ins—I had asked about technology that helps cover up unwanted tracks—that I first heard about Chinese dual-SIM mobile phones.

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8 September 2010

Getting to Know the Global Voices Latin America Team

Written by Eduardo Avila · Blogger Profiles, Announcements

The Global Voices Latin America team of volunteer authors has grown over the past three years. During this transition and the presentation of a new Regional Editor, Silvia Viñas, let's take a look at the diverse community of committed bloggers from this region.

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18 August 2010

Paraguay: Soaring Soybean Production Prompts Clashes

Written by Juhie Bhatia · Development, Environment

As the global demand for soy rises, Paraguay has become the world's fastest-growing producer of the crop. But with resulting riches have also come battles over land rights and environmental concerns.

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16 July 2010

Paraguay: Prejudice in International Media During the World Cup

Written by Belen Bogado · Sport, Ethnicity & Race

In Paraguay, the 2010 FIFA World Cup evidenced that Paraguayans had to look out for discrimination coming from the least expected source: international mainstream media from Brazil and Spain.

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Updates about Paraguay

10 May 2012

Spanish

“The media flew over the drama and didn't land over the human stories that were waiting below.” Carlos Rodriguez from the blog Rescatar [es] writes about the media's lacking coverage of the floods that hit the Paraguayan Chaco.

• 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

29 February 2012

English

Landowners are opposing review of land titles in the department of Alto Paraná “to determine if the lands are ‘ill-gotten,' whose title deeds could be forged or faked or simply seized from the times of the Stroessner dictatorship” Ignacio Cirio explains. Upside Down World published a translation of Cirio's interview [es] with Magui Balbuena of the National Council of Organizations of Rural and Indigenous Workers on the conflict in Alto Paraná.

• Silvia Viñas

14 February 2012

English

Intercontinental Cry re-posts a report by Amnesty International: “After living next to a major highway for nearly two decades without access to water, regular food supplies or even land to cultivate–the Enxet community of Yakye Axa can finally return to a normal way of life on their ancestral lands in southeastern Paraguay. Amnesty International reports.”

• Silvia Viñas

25 January 2012

Spanish

Global Voices contributor Belén Bogado [es] suggests adding “learning how to use social networks correctly” to your list of new year's resolutions. She gives some local and international examples of the bad use of social networks to encourage her readers to be careful with what they share online.

• 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

4 January 2012

Spanish

The children of Caacupé in Paraguay were part of a unique Christmas concert: they played Silent Night using their special “one laptop per child” program laptops as musical instruments. They learned how to play music on their XO computers during their “Vacations with Technology” program.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

27 December 2011

English

Bloggings by boz looks at youth unemployment in Latin America, concluding that “with growth projections decreased for 2011 and 2012, the current situation for youth unemployment is almost certainly getting worse. That could have major economic, political and social implications moving into 2012.”

• Silvia Viñas

12 December 2011

Spanish

Yluux published a photo essay [es] on the pilgrimage to the city of Caacupé on December 7 and 8: “hundreds of thousands flock [to the city] from all over the country to pay homage to the Virgin of Caacupé.”

• Silvia Viñas

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