Today’s featured cartoon was created by artist Pedro X. Molina, which provides commentary on recent state-owned media responses to protests in Venezuela.
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In this Exile Hangout, Cuban writers including Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Lien Carrazana Lau, Danilo Maldonado Machado “El Sexto”, and Elena Victoria Molina speak about an anthology of Cuban short stories published by Sampsonia Way. They nuance Cuban literary generations and how “censorship is creating new spaces” in current conversations.
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Sampsonia Way is excited to announce its newest series: The Freedom Chat. Through Skype we are reaching out to journalists and other media figures from around the world to share their firsthand experiences with censorship, repression, and exile. In this very first Freedom Chat, Naziha Syed Ali comments on a multitude of threats felt by journalists in Pakistan.
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Tienchi Martin-Liao writes about how the concept of “servitude,” or nuxing, has impacted Chinese and Indian literature and culture throughout history. She then discusses China’s current servitude to wealth and its recent offer to modernize India.
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Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo discusses the importance of a new book that implicates the Cuban state in the murder of dissidents Harold Cepero and Oswaldo Payá in 2012.
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Bolivian cartoonist Al-Azar has been harassed after publishing a cartoon about the tragedy in the Carnival of Oruro, where several musicians died after a footbridge collapsed. Since then, many citizens and media professionals have stood in support of Al-Azar.
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In this cartoon Makhmud Eshonkulov (Uzbekistan) comments on the violence surrounding the current elections in Afghanistan.
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