Just last week Carlos Slim, the wealthiest man alive, bought the biggest suscription TV provider in Nicaragua. That company, ESTESA, was already a de facto monopoly in its market, and now is part of the telecom empire Slim has built in Nicaragua. At this moment, Slim owns ENITEL, with the brands CLARO (Mobile phone), Turbonett (Wireless internet access), AMNET (broadband […]
Ecuador’s Constutient Assembly President Steps Down
Posted by Milton Ramirez to Global Voices Online President Rafael Correa has managed to remain in power no matter his popularity among Latin American presidents. He sits in the 5th position and internally in Ecuador there still is a considerable number of people who have started to feel defrauded by the motto, La Patria ya es […]
Peru: Puno Leader Seeking Greater Autonomy for Region
by Juan Arellano The Regional President of Puno, Hernán Fuentes, is seeking that the region become an autonomous or federated state, in which it is given financial, administrative and political autonomy. This announcement attracted a lot of interest in the media, as well as in the blogs. Bernd Krehoff of Perú Politico [es] writes in […]
Costa Rica: Cow Parade and Internet Video
by Juliana Rincón Parra The Cow Parade calls itself the world´s largest public art event, and for tiny Costa Rica´s standards, it certainly is a huge deal that the capital city of San José was selected to host the legion of cows. On AmeliaRueda.com[es] , a series of online videos have been reporting to the […]