Julián Ortega Martínez
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Graphic designer, born 1981 in Bogotá. Deputy editor of equinoXio digital magazine (in Spanish) and former editor-in-chief of equinoXio english edition. I'm also a translator for Global Voices en Español.
Latest posts by Julián Ortega Martínez
11 February 2011
7 February 2011
Colombia
Vicki, a British journalist living in Colombia's capital, has posted her 101 reasons to love Bogotá, including “Streets are numbered, not named. You don’t need an A-Z,” “It is considered acceptable to love books,” “Sometimes people sell chocolate on the buses,” “New people don’t have to be drunk to talk to you,” or “The taxi driver will wait for you to open your front door.”
6 February 2011
Colombia
February is back-to-school season in most of Colombia, and some Twitter users (who helped organize a “Twitterathon” last December to help the victims of the rainy season) joined to gather school supplies for 730 children [es] who study at Fundación Hogar San Mauricio [es] in Bogotá and Institución Educativa Luis Carlos Galán, sede Altos del Pino [es] in neighbouring city Soacha. As of Saturday 5 February, 4,064 items were donated. Pictures of the event are available at their Facebook page.
12 December 2010
Colombia
Colombian Twitter users have joined to support the victims of this year's heavy rainy season, which has affected at least 1.5 million people. Twitteratón [es] started on December 8 as an event in Medellín [es] to collect donations for the victims, prompting similar events in other cities like Bogotá (12/ 11), Barranquilla [es] (12/11), Pasto [es] (12/12), and Cali [es] (12/19 [es]). A virtual auction [es] of works by illustrators, photographers, and artists is also on the works.
18 November 2010
Colombia: Mayor of Bogotá isolated amidst corruption allegations
Bogotá Mayor Samuel Moreno Rojas faced criticism even before taking office in 2008; as the mayor, he has been regarded mostly as an "incompetent" who "lacks leadership", and is routinely mocked with nicknames as "bobolitro" ("dumb"). In the last few weeks, a corruption scandal has added to this criticism.
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3 October 2010
Peru: Two Women Contend to Become Mayor of Lima
On Sunday October 3 regional and municipal elections will be held in all of Peru, and for the first time the top candidates in Lima are two women. But this does not mean that the campaign has been free of rumors, accusations, and scandals. Of course, bloggers have also been sharing their views and evaluating the candidates.
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23 September 2010
20 July 2010
Colombia: Twitter Reactions to the Colombian Bicentennial and its Google Doodle
On July 20, Colombia celebrates 200 years of the declaration of independence and the start of the wars which ended August 7, 1819, when the then New Granada achieved its definitive independence from Spain. Colombian Twitter users reacted to the bicentennial celebration, including the Google Doodle chosen for the day.
Colombia
The 200 years of the Colombian independence is the subject of posts by Jaime Restrepo on Atrabilioso [es], who criticizes the common stereotypes about Colombians and their urge to “get ahead”, and Rodrigo Sandoval on El Bayabuyiba [es], who writes about the lack of a real national project for the country.
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