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The holidays are a time for families to gather and share in one another's company. In Guatemala, many have relatives that have migrated outside of the country for better opportunities and as a result, many are not able to return to Guatemala or deportations have separated loved ones. For those that are able to and choose to return home, the sights at airports are memorable.
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In Consent of the Networked, internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that the purpose of technology is to serve humanity, not the other way around. It’s time to wake up and act before the reversal becomes permanent.
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Luis Ramirez interviews Sergio Bitar [es], head of the Democracy Party in Chile, who was very interested in the One Laptop Per Child project when he worked in the Ministry of Education during the Ricardo Lagos administration.
Carlos Serra [pt], from Mozambique, anticipates a piece of news from tomorrow's edition of Zambeze: “The President of the Republic extinguished the Anti-Corruption Forum through a decision on December 27″.
A sex tape forced a Malaysian minister to resign today. Malaysian politician Lim Kit Siang asks if the minister a victim of double betrayal.
Moçambique para Todos [pt] reports on the heavy seasonal rains that have flooded Zimbabwe. “Particularly, Machanga and Búzi have no communication with the rest of the country and the people are in refugee centres organized in schools and churches. It is estimated that 42,690 people are at risk in the islands and river banks in the Zambezia (Zambezi River), Sofala and Manica (Búzi River and Púnguè) provinces.”
Kontratempos [pt] lets us know that the last edition of podcast Café com Blogs is now available. In this issue, a balance of the year, with facts, controversies and people that shook the blogosphere in 2007.
Alda Inacio [pt] on the withdrawal of an European campaign against AIDS showing two men having sex, on the grounds that the images were too explicit. “I believe that this disease does not belong to any class and this unfashionable mentality should have been abolished by those who made these posters”.
Milton Ribeiro [pt] publishes an interview that Luís Carmelo [pt] made with him back in 2006 about the blogosphere. “On the Internet, any individual who wants to exercise their freedom of speech will find another individual exercising their freedom of information. This is freedom. This is democracy. This is a right that must be guaranteed”. It is worth reading again.
I guess it has to do with humanizing a figure we prefer to see as super-natural. The almost funny thing...
people of maldives..you have to stop this civil war. its sad to see it in this state of affairs....
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I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...