Archive for February 18th, 2008
Video Shows Cuban Youth Discontent or Freedom of Speech?
3:05 pm By Maegan La Mala · Controversia|Cuba|Media|Politics|society · Comments Off
18 Feb 2008This news is admittedly over a week old, but I couldn’t let this slip by without drawing you attention to it. An anonymous source sent the BBC a tape of an encounter between Cuban IT students and the head of the country’s parliament, Ricardo Alarcon and what is seen might be shocking for some. Students ask some very tough questions. The video is in Spanish, but if you don’t speak it, I’ll try to summarize after the jump.
Anti-Immigrant Groups in Denver Protest Actions of Guatemalan Consul
9:56 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Guatemala|Immigration · Comments Off
18 Feb 2008
They say third time is a charm, but this wasn’t the case for the Denver-based consul of Guatemala, that renewed passports and embassy identifications for its citizens living and working in Utah, Colorado and Nevada. Anti-immigration groups protested the event because the Guatemalan nationals didn’t have to prove their status in the U.S. (why would they- this was for Guatemalan documents!). Protest groups said if the Guatemalans were legal immigrants, they wouldn’t need secondary forms of identification.
Via / Local News 8
Buenos Dias : Meet the World’s Newest Nation : Kosovo
8:39 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Kosovo|Politics · Comments Off
18 Feb 2008
While you were off partying this weekend, some people in Europe decided to declare their independence (don’t you feel like a slacker now?). Yesterday, the province of Kosovo declared independence from Serbia prompting some sightings of people waving the flag of Kosovo in NYC streets yesterday, confusing people (What flag is that? Is there a parade today?). The declaration of independence is the latest chapter in a long history of events in the former Yugoslavia that include a civil war between ethnicities in the region.
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