ARGENTINA: Opposition, Media Giants to Fight New Law
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - While civil society groups celebrated Argentina's new broadcasting law, media giants threatened to fight it with a wave of lawsuits, and opposition lawmakers pledged to revise it after the next Congress convenes in December.
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ARGENTINA: Through the Lens of Young Slum Dwellers
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Two dozen young slum dwellers in Buenos Aires began filming a documentary about themselves this month, in an attempt to break down the negative stereotypes with which they are portrayed in the media.
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MEDIA: South-South Radio from Caracas to Africa
By Mildred Pineda
CARACAS - Poverty, attacks on human rights and corporate fraud will be among the main news coverage focuses of a new regional public radio network, Radio del Sur, which will link stations from South America and Africa.
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CUBA: Restoring Historic Santiago for Its People
By Patricia Grogg
SANTIAGO DE CUBA - Even with her house practically in ruins, Isabel García wouldn’t dream of living anywhere else. She’d rather stay where she knows that no matter what corner she turns she’ll always be able to gaze out into the blue sea or raise her eyes up to the green mountains that shelter her beloved city of Santiago, in eastern Cuba.
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CUBA: There Are No Tough Guys; It’s Tough To Be a Guy
By Dalia Acosta
HAVANA - It has been three years since he separated from his second wife and realised he did not have a home to return to. Although he has always been able to count on a helping hand from one friend or another, and his children help him out now and then, Humberto Martínez spends most nights sleeping on a park bench in the Cuban capital.
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ENVIRONMENT: Turning Junk Mail Into Art
By Alecia D. McKenzie
PARIS - Like everyone else, Barbara Hashimoto hated the junk mail coming in through the door. Until she decided one day that it could be transformed into art, and lessons about the environment.
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MEXICO: Underwater Museum to Protect Coral Reefs
By Verónica Díaz Favela*
MEXICO CITY - Four sculptures in human forms, made of concrete, will be submerged in November in the Mexican Caribbean - the first of 400 figures that will comprise the world's largest underwater museum.
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BRAZIL: Olympics in Rio – 'Happiness' Trumps Wealth and Technology
By Mario Osava *
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil has "the happiest and most creative" people in the world, and deserved this opportunity, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in Copenhagen, celebrating Friday's election of Rio de Janeiro as the host of the 2016 Olympic Games.
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MEXICO: Black Minority Invisible in Bicentennial Plans
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Mexico has big plans for celebrating its 200th anniversary of independence from Spain next year. But Mexicans of African descent are as invisible in those plans as they are in everyday life.
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JAPAN: Buddhist Priests Use Pop Culture to Win Back Faithful
By Catherine Makino and Naoyuki Ogi
TOKYO - Hip hop. Fashion. Zen café. Animation.
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