Tag: argentina
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From the terrific democracyos of Argentina, a piece fronted by Pia Mancini, commissioned by BBC Newsnight in the run-up to the UK election: Here is DemocracyOS in BBC Newsnight, in case you missed it. “Technology alone is not going to do the trick. And so to get real change we decided we had to hack the system…
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This groundbreaking new book presents the most important examples of world-changing journalism, spanning one hundred years of history and every continent. Carefully curated by prominent international journalists working in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, Global Muckraking includes Ken Saro-Wiwa’s defense of the Ogoni people in the Niger Delta; Horacio Verbitsky’s uncovering…
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From VIPPAL, an initiative of the Argentine think-tank CIPPEC. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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The dictatorship still casts a big shadow, though sometimes indirectly, as in Sobrevivientes (Shipwrecked) by Fernando Monacelli. Twenty-five years after the war in the Falklands, a mother finds the frozen body of a soldier, her son, adrift in a lifeboat near the Antarctic. In other cases it is barely perceptible or merely metaphorical. Soy Paciente…
Sameer Padania 