Sambodian Cultural Observer: “The Biennial of the Void”

Grupo invade a Bienal e picha o segundo andar: “Group invades São Paulo Biennial and grafitti-bombs the second floor.”
The international art exhibition had its budget cut by half this year by the president of the foundation that puts it on. I have not been able to understand why. The last Biennial had sort of a [...]

What Ever Happened to Mexico’s “The Man Behind the Meth”?

The government of Mexico, negligent in the case of Ye Gon
JORGE CARRASCO ARAIZAGA of Proceso magazine (Mexico) with an update on the case of a China-born Mexico citizen who became the focus of an enormous, “mountain of money”-themed political scandal a year ago.
In the meantime, little has been revealed, as they U.S. Dept. of Justice [...]

Folha de S. Paulo: “Brazil Still Sunk in the Dark Ages”

Writing in the (Ford Foundation-funded) Observatório da Imprensa, Bernardo Kucinski complains that the Folha de S. Paulo has provided viciously slanted coverage of a rural electrification project here in Brazil known as Luz para Todos (“electricity for all”).
Bernardo Kucinski is a USP journalism professor, a co-founder of the lefty Carta Maior alt.news agency, and worked [...]

Colombia: “Black Eagles Issue Death Threats to Student Activists”

Graffiti on walls inside the university campus remind them that “the Black Eagles are watching.”
The administration of President Álvaro Uribe is jeopardizing efforts to secure justice for crimes committed by paramilitaries and their accomplices in Colombia, Human Rights Watch said in a report released October 23, 2008.
Treinta estudiantes de la U. del Atlántico dejaron las [...]

NET x GatoNet: Rio Militiamen Protest Globo-Slim Cable Monopoly in Batan!

Item: Policiais fazem ameaças no Batan. In the shantytown community of Batan, a plan to replace black-market cable TV hookups run by militias with low-cost cable TV hookups from Net Serviços (a joint venture betwen Globo and Mexican telecoms mogul Carlos Slim) results in an îllustration of what we here at the Sousaphone like to [...]