Writer Horacio Castellanos Moya examines how journalists, not writers and intellectuals, are the new targets of the powerful elite. In Latin America, pursuing investigative journalism, like that of Lydia Cacho, can be a death sentence.
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Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfon’s forthcoming novel The Polish Boxer is expected in October. Word Without Borders is appealing to readers to help bring Halfon to New York and London for a series of readings geared to high school students. We share a video of Halfon talking about his new novel.
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In this week’s Corkscrew writer Horacio Castellanos Moya explains the effects that Spain’s financial crisis will have on Latin American industry, development, and immigration.
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In this week’s Corkscrew novelist Horacio Castellanos Moya reviews The Civilization of Entertainment, a collection of essays by Peruvian author and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.
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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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Journalist Lucía Escobar discusses the situation for journalists in Guatemala, especially with the recent election of General Otto Perez Molina, who has been linked to atrocious war crimes that took place during the thirty-year civil war which ended in 1996.
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In the Weekly Freedom of Speech Roundup Sampsonia Way presents some of the week’s top news on freedom of expression, journalists in danger, artists in exile, and banned literature. This week news from Russia, Tibet, Iran, the Americas, and Julian Assange.
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