Reporters Without Borders notes the arrest of three APPO activists in the death of New Yorker Brad Will, a photographer for Indymedia, in Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, in 2006.
Mexican federal authorities allege that powder burns were found on Will’s body, suggesting a shot fired at short range, despite autopsy findings published at the time and [...]
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Brazilian political and economic commentators perform their analyses before the fact. Before they know that it actually happened, they have an explanation for it. They present opinion divorced from information. –Ricardo Kaufmann (O Globo: “Chávez Won the Referendum Because He Manipulated the System!”)
The editorial pages of the Estado de S. Paulo are a unique [...]
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Outgoing Rio mayor Cesar “The Naked” Maia issues an “extra! extra!” edition of this “ex-blog” to suggest that the recent Rio elections — won by a political rival of the Naked Mayor’s DEM-PFL over the PSDB-Green-DEM candidate Fernando “I Kidnapped the U.S. Ambassador” Gabeira — were rigged!
Chairman Maia has insinuated throughout the elections that the [...]
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