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...live here. I work here. Why would I have an issue with America? This is the only country that gives you freedom - freedom of religion, freedom of choice. You don't get that elsewhere. Nobody wants to leave America. People die to come here." - In an interview with the Denver Post, Sept...
...Argentina, President Cristina Fernández is about to win a measure that will drastically reduce the number of licenses for privately owned media while ratcheting up the presence of state-owned broadcasters. The Miami-based Inter American Press Association (IAPA), while acknowledging that press freedom still exists in Bolivia, warned recently of an increasingly "dangerous climate" for media under President Evo Morales. Ecuador's national assembly is debating a bill that would give President Rafael Correa's government - which recently trumpeted the creation of "revolutionary defense committees" that opponents call Cuban-style organs for spying on citizens - control over...
...ousted President Manuel Zelaya this summer. But "President Chávez and his bloc of allies all want to consolidate power, neutralize any opposition and remain in office beyond their elected terms," says Robert Rivard, editor of the San Antonio Express-News and chair of the IAPA committee on freedom of expression, which held an emergency forum in Caracas over the weekend. "They probably can't gain the kind of grip on their respective countries without passing laws to legitimize their moves and limit independent media...
...election in 2011 for herself or her husband and predecessor, former President Néstor Kirchner. Adrián Ventura, a columnist for the Buenos Aires daily La Nación, wrote last week that Fernandez "has started to unveil a true systematic policy of violation of freedom of expression. We are on the same road" as Venezuela...
...Castros for 50 years," says Francisco (Pepe) Hernandez, 73, president of the Cuban-American National Foundation in Miami, which backed Juanes' efforts despite protests by more hard-line exiles that included smashing the singer's CDs in Little Havana. "But it was tremendous to see Juanes sing about freedom in that plaza to the new generation of Cubans. We've thought for too long that we could topple the government in Cuba from here in Miami, but we have to approach it more from the bottom up by taking this kind of thing directly to the Cuban people...