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August 27th, 2006
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Blogging the Week in Peru
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These past few days, apart from the appointments of new government employees, it has been President Garcia's dogged persistence in fulfilling some of his campaign promises that has been making noise in the political section of the media. Perú Político deals with the topic in its customary weekly review: Weekly Chronicle (August 9-15). Their announcement (ES) of how they will be covering the upcoming regional and municipal elections throughout the country is also interesting. Let's hope that there are many participants.
Not all is well in the media however. In Zona de Noticias, a blog generally dedicated to literature, they echo the denouncement of a journalist in a Lima newspaper about the alleged misuse of power by certain media outlets that, in this case, became disinformation: Alberto Adrianzén: “Expreso y Correo promueven la sospecha y la soplonería”.
Switching to economics, a difference of criteria when it comes to tackling the subject of taxation of extra earnings by large foreign companies in the country is what Gran Combo Club presents in the post Falta de lógica económica. (Lack of Economic Logic):
What Salvadoran bloggers are saying — anti-terrorism law
El Salvador has a legislative National Assembly where no party holds absolute sway. While the majority of deputies are from parties which will work with the President Saca's ARENA party, the FMLN continues to have sufficient votes to block much legislation. Recently, even though El Salvador has not suffered from al-Qaeda style terrorism, the National Assembly has been spending much time working on an anti-terrorism bill.
Rocío writes in her blog about a concern that “terrorism” is not well-defined(es) in the law. Because terrorist acts under the law can be any conduct intended to provoke fear, alarm, or insecurity in the population, it may be subject to abuse. Before such a law is adopted, Rocío believes the country needs to adopt measures to improve the judicial system in the country to protect jealously the human rights of its citizens.
Blogger Ixquic also makes several points about the proposed law in her post titled Parliamentary Terrorism(es). First, Ixquic finds the need to point out that combatting terrorism is not inconsistent with international standards of human rights. In fact, the United Nations and varioius international treaties expressly condemn terror. So the creation of an anti-terrorism law is not, by itself, an act designed to impair the human rights of Salvadoran citizens.
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African Women This Month
Literature, music and blog redesigns are three of the themes in the African women's blogosphere this month.
Molara Wood and Mama's Junkyard have both redesigned their blogs. Molara has chosen to stick with blogger.com but takes on a new name, Wordsbody. Mama's Junkyard ungrades to WordPress with a new colour scheme and layout….
No more light on dark. mamajunkyard’s has been tangoed! Orange is the new strawberry, wider width is the way to go and lowercase is how I like it. Add a few plugins like Gravatar and ELA and the geek in me comes out to play.
The site is cool and refreshing. Check out her new photoblog with strawberries and waffles for breakfast.
Naija to the Core has a great Tribute to Fela - Felaversation
This is a tribute to the music, life and times of the Late Fela Anikulapo Kuti (Oct. 15, 1938 - Aug. 2, 1997)
Ironically, a talk is being held today at the National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos titled Felaversation which is designed to celebrate the fact that “Nigerian intellectuals have, at last, responded to the challenges posed by their counterparts from the West and Europe on the issue of articulating the epochal contribution of one of Africa's leading cultural icon, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti to world culture. “
It's taken them nearly 25 years to get there - could it be intellectual snobbery?
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Links for Sun, 2006-08
Irane Emrouz writes the Speaker of Iranian Parliament has said that Iran will construct all destroyed houses in Lebanon. The blogger adds in our country there are many second -rate citizens who are looking for their daily bread and now the authorities want to deprive them form their daily bread and do construction in another land [Fa].
On a trip back from the Middle East, Iraqi blogger and activist Raed Jarrar was not allowed to board a flight at JFK airport because he was wearing a t-shirt that said “We will not be silent” in English and Arabic. Airport security forced him to change his t-shirt saying wearing it was like “going to a bank with a t-shirt reading ‘I am a robber.'”
“It does not take advanced training in economics to know that corruption is an inefficient method of allocating resources …” says BusinessinAfrica report, Paiting Africa with the corruptor's brush, cited in Africa Unchained.
For the first time, Tanzania's musicians get their royalties, reports Tanzania's leading photoblogger, Issa Michuzi.
Foot-In-Mouth on “emillion lies.” Emilio is the name of Mwai Kibaki, the President of Kenya.
Eddie Cross, the spokesperson for Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change believes that something extraodinary is going to happen in Zimbabwe to end Zanu PF's rule.
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