According to everything I can figure out Lt. General Ion Michai Pacepa, the former chief of Romanian foreign intelligence service and then special adviser to then President Nicolas Ceausesau, during the later part of the 1970’s represents the “highest ranking defector to the U.S. ever had come over from a rival or hostile intelligence service.” […]
Censorship in Catalonia
Written byJoan Antoni Guerrero Vall Translated by Daniel Bogre Udell Catalan journalist and Global Voices contributor Lali Sandiumenge recently decided to disassociate her blog on digital activism, Guerreros del teclado [es] or “Keyboard Warriors” from Catalonia’s leading daily newspaper, La Vanguardia [es]. The decision came after the publication’s editorial staff decided to delete her post explaining a hunger […]
In Chile, Nurse Expedites Organ Transport Using Twitter
Written by Elizabeth Rivera · Translated by Stephen Cairns Cristina Bizama (@cristi_enf), a nurse at Talca hospital in Chile, has devised a way to speed up the transport of organs for transplant from Talca to the capital, Santiago, some 260 kilometers away (162 miles). It all started with a tweet sent the night of April […]
Venezuela: Keeping the Internet as a Priority
When the Venezuelan government emitted Decree No. 6649, it raised red flags within the online community concerned about the possible effects to education, research and other fields important to development. The decree seeks to eliminate “luxuries” or “superfluous expenses” among the public expenditure, among which includes the Internet. As a result, the online campaign Internet […]
A broken vow of silence…
El 30 de enero de 2008 murió uno de los hombres más influyentes en la historia del siglo XX mexicano: el padre Marcial Maciel Degollado. Fue el fundador de la orden religiosa más importante y con mayor crecimiento en México y en el mundo: la Legión de Cristo. Con un especial interés por "reevangelizar" a […]
Pseudohistoria IV: “¡Pero si nunca mataron a los judios!”
El Nazismo y la Segunda Guerra Mundial fueron la culminación de una postura cultural hacia los judíos: el antisemitismo. Durante siglos a los judíos se les acusó de haber asesinado a Jesucristo para quitarles sus pertenencias y acosarlos por toda Europa. Los guetos y pogromos caracterizaron a la historia judáica por mucho tiempo, pero fue […]