Global Voices · Citizen media stories from January 2011

January, 2011

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Stories from January, 2011

18 January 2011

China: Presidents Hu and Obama set to talk

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia, North America

Chinese President Hu Jintao arrives in Washington, DC today for face time with President Obama. How would you start off a dinner like that? And currency revaluation? One Chinese blogger suggests the renminbi is already worth more than you might think.

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Russia: Bloggers on Lessons of Tunisian Revolution

Written by Gregory Asmolov · Middle East & North Africa, Eastern & Central Europe

The outcome of the Tunisian protests has provoked people worldwide to think about political change. One of the major questions discussed by Russian bloggers is whether the possibility of similar scenario in Russia exists.

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Haiti: Duvalier Arrest Imminent?

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

From just before eleven o'clock this morning, Twitter has been rife with speculation that Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, the banished former dictator who has been living in exile in France and who made a surprise return to his homeland on Sunday evening, may be in the process of being placed under arrest.

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Ecuador: Crime as the Government's Main Challenge for 2011

Written by Milton Ramirez · Latin America

One of the outstanding social responsibilities of the government of Rafael Correa is public safety. Ecuadorian bloggers share their experiences, analysis and opinions about the growing problem of crime.

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Zambia: Barotseland becomes hotbed of contention

Written by Soneka Kamuhuza · Sub-Saharan Africa

Long considered a non-issue because of backdoor political posturing that occurred through decades of one party rule in Zambia, the Barotseland Agreement of 1964 appears to finally have become a hotbed of contention.

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Puerto Rico: Online Debate on Hooded Protesters

Written by César Santiago · Latin America

Recently, hooded individuals protesting in the student strike at the University of Puerto Rico committed acts of vandalism that were caught on camera. Members of the Puerto Rican blogosphere discuss the impact they have caused to the cause and some wonder if they are students at all.

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Updates from January, 2011

24 January 2011

Guyana

The Signifyin' Woman contemplates Caribbean homophobia and notions of what it means to be a “real” man vs an “anti” man.

• Nicholas Laughlin

Bahamas

Rick Lowe of Weblog Bahamas responds to those who argue that “all economic activity” in the Bahamas should be “reserved exclusively for Bahamians” by pointing to a 2003 paper on foreign investment.

• Nicholas Laughlin

Pakistan

“Pakistan’s quasi-democracy might be the nation’s last chance, before a tide of part real, and part manufactured extremism engulfs the country,” opines Raza Rumi.

• Rezwan

Mexico

Bishop Samuel Ruiz passed away this morning. Tim Johnson explains: “Ruiz […] started the Fray Bartolome de las Casas Human Rights Center out of his diocese, and played an instrumental role in keeping the Zapatista uprising that erupted in 1994 from flaring into broader violence. Ruiz’s work on behalf of indigenous peoples caused his renown to spread around the hemisphere.”

• Silvia Viñas

El Salvador

A law that, “would have required government institutions, and private entities tied to the state, to make information available to the public without, necessarily, a formal request, by establishing an accessible database of information,” is stalled, as reported by Voices from El Salvador's Weblog.

• Silvia Viñas

Russia

A bomb exploded at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, at least ten casualties reported. An avalanche of Twitter items here (RUS) and here (RUS, ENG). @ann_mint, who works at Domodedovo, was one of the first Twitter users to report on the blast; “There're victums in #domodedovo Pray for us,” she wrote (ENG) a few minutes ago.