This week, members of Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot sentenced to two years in prison, Ecuador granted political asylum to Julian Assange, Mexican poet Javier Sicilia kicks off U.S. Caravan for Peace. Also, news from Burma, South Korea, Honduras.
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In this week’s Freedom of Speech Roundup, prominent investigative journalist Lydia Cacho flees Mexico after death threats, exiled satirist Abebe Tolla talks about censorship in Ethiopia, and author Alom Shaha calls for a discussion on Islam. Plus news and analysis from around the world.
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In this week’s Corkscrew writer Horacio Castellanos Moya compares the recent impeachment of Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo to the ousting of Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, and asks “Who’s next?”
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Para el lector de habla hispana, Sampsonia Way presenta un fragmento de la última novela de Horacio Castellanos Moya en español: La sirvienta y el luchador.
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Sampsonia Way magazine presents fragments from Tyrant Memory selected by author. The tyrant of Castellanos Moya’s ambitious new novel is based on the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez who came to power in El Salvador in 1932.
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Sampsonia Way magazine poses 15 questions to Horacio Castellanos Moya, author of Tyrant Memory, his latest novel, and former writer-in-residence at City of Asylum Pittsburgh.
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Nery Jeremías Orellana is one of 12 journalists killed in the last 18 months in Honduras. A supporter of recently ousted President Manuel Zelaya, Orellana was a member of the Popular Resistance Front, an opposition movement.
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