Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 October 03

3 October 2008

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Stories from 3 October 2008

Brazil: Impunity and forgetfulness over Carandiru Massacre

Sixteen years ago, Brazil was shocked by one of the biggest human rights violation in its history. The Carandiru Massacre saw the assassination of hundreds of unarmed inmates inside what was then South America's largest prison. See the few blog reactions available and a survivor's account of the unpunished crime, which seems to have been forgotten by many.

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China: Giving a hand to rescue U.S?

Written by Bob Chen · East Asia

Now, the financial crisis originated from U.S is going to sweep the globe. As the closest trade partner of U.S, China is struggling over the question: should it give a hand to help America out of the abyss? Or are we able to? But some netizens are thinking even further.

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Perú: Bloggers Adopting Congressional Representatives

Written by Juan Arellano · Latin America

Peruvian bloggers get together to prompt congressional representatives to be transparent regarding their operational expenses, and this action causes all sorts of reactions from bloggers and congresspeople themselves.

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Ecuador: Referendum Results Herald Changes

Written by Milton Ramirez · Latin America

As the results to the Constitutional Referendum in Ecuador come in, bloggers prepare themselves for the changes that will come with the positive answers to changing the Constitution: some hopeful that these changes will make a difference in the economy, others doubting that corruption will cease.

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Updates from 3 October 2008

Nepal

Minerva's Crossing is impressed by the speeches Nepali Prime Minister and former rebel leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) gave in New York and comments: “rebel movements can change, if they are willing to do so”.

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Sri Lanka

Serendipity discusses the current state of media manipulation in Sri Lanka.

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Pakistan

After the recent flirtatious statement incident of Pakistan president Asif A. Zardari, Teeth Maestro digs out another controversy relating to the president, this time whether he misspelled or not while signing in a guest book.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh Corporate blog informs that the government owned telecommunications giant BTCL has started to offer a special number to access Internet service, which is the first of its kind in Bangladesh. All one needs is to have a land phone line and a modem and the dial-up internet usage charges will be added to the phone bill.

• Rezwan

India

Santosh at Über Desi discusses the significance of the India-US nuclear deal.

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Venezuela

Simón Bécquer from the Alternative Reality blog in his post The Converse Shoes of the Socialist Youth [es] shows us the images for the new campaign for Venezuela's Socialist Youth, in which young people are asked to step into socialist shoes. However, these shoes, modelled and shown by President Chávez himself are oddly familiar: they are a red knock-off of the popular US brand Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars, with the PSUV logo instead of the traditional red and blue star. The author wonders where these ironic and “original” Venezuelan shoes could be purchased.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

Bahamas

Rick Lowe at Weblog Bahamas thinks that the 5 million dollars that the government is allocating to rebuild the Nassau Straw Market “is over the top. This matter deserves clearer thinking.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco