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COMMUNICATIONS-MEXICO: Doors Closing on Once-Prominent Daily

By IPS Correspondents
The Mexican newspaper 'Excelsior,' once considered a top daily in all of Latin America and now suffering debt and loss of prestige, has been in agony since the worker-owners threw out the board of directors.

COMMUNICATIONS-PERU: Public Internet Terminals for the Rural Poor

By IPS Correspondents
Peru's potato farmers would not have lost 460,000 tonnes from their last harvest if a network of public Internet terminals, like the ones that are to be installed in low- income rural communities starting next year, had been functioning.

CULTURE-CHINA: Beijing Stays Mum on Nobel Prize for Exiled Novelist

By IPS Correspondents
Each year when the Nobel Prize in Literature is announced, Chinese newspapers are filled for days with articles lamenting the failure of a nation with a literary heritage so enduring and rich as China's, to win the prize even once.

COMMUNICATIONS-CUBA: Gov’t to Set Up Public Internet Terminals

By Patricia Grogg
Internet access from home does not figure into the Cuban government's plans to expand information technology throughout the island, instead, it has opted for a less expensive community-based approach.

COMMUNICATION-TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Court Ruling Hailed for Upholding Fairness

By IPS Correspondents
A ruling by the Trinidad and Tobago High Court that the Prime Minister acted "unconstitutionally" in denying a cellular telephone licence to a local media conglomerate has been seen here as a blow to the government that could also slowdown the timetable for liberalising the telecommunication industry.

MEDIA-BRAZIL: Gov’t Limits Sex, Violence on TV

By Mario Osava
Brazil's Justice Ministry has begun to enforce a new resolution aimed at reducing the exposure of children and teenagers to scenes of explicit violence and sex on TV.

COMMUNICATIONS-GUYANA: Longing to Keep in Touch

By IPS Correspondents
Maybe if it had not happened to President Bharrat Jagdeo there would not be such an urgency to solving the problem. But last week, while the Guyanese president was attending the UN Millennium Summit in New York, he got a first hand demonstration of just how difficult it has become to contact Guyana by telephone.

RIGHTS-LATAM: Computers a New Weapon against Impunity

By IPS Correspondents
Human rights activists, families of the disappeared, and South Americans living in other countries are using the Internet to demand the trial of former Argentinean navy captain Miguel Cavallo, arrested in Mexico on charges of genocide.

YUGOSLAVIA: Journalists See Jail Term for Colleague as Repression

By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
Journalists in Serbia say they see the recent arrest and conviction of a colleague for espionage as an ominous sign of further repression against all who differ in opinion from the government of President Slobodan Milosevic.

TRANSPORT-BRAZIL: Information Battle Keeps Traffic Moving

By Mario Osava
Life in the mega-city of Sao Paulo, with its traffic-choked avenues, is a daily exercise in patience, but the situation would be worse without the army of workers waging war on traffic jams with information as the principal weapon.

MEDIA-ARGENTINA: Investigative Reporting Competes with Judiciary

By Marcela Valente
The media, especially investigative journalism programmes on TV, are seen by the Argentine public as the most effective weapon today against corruption, while the judiciary's already battered image continues to slide.

COMMUNICATION-COLOMBIA: Newsletter Keeps Tabs on Urban Conflict

By IPS Correspondents
The 'Observatorio del Conflicto Urbano' newsletter, published in the Colombian city of Medellin, is an effort spearheaded by a group of social organisations to differentiate the ongoing armed conflict occurring in rural areas from the violence of the country's major urban centres, and to seek solutions for it.

COMMUNICATION-VENEZUELA: ‘Reality’ Talk Shows Hit a Nerve

By IPS Correspondents
Talk shows specialising in the crude and intimate reality of their guests is good business for television stations in Venezuela, but feed doubts as to the integrity of their creators and the effect on society when they are broadcast at hours traditionally reserved for children's programming.

RUSSIA: Media Under Pressure

By IPS Correspondents
The Kremlin has vowed to support Russian democracy, but the troubles of the independent mediaaccepted worldwide as an important component of democracysuggest that the days of government tolerance of dissident voices may soon be over.

RIGHTS-CHILE: New Book Stirs Up Conflict Over ‘Disappeared’

By IPS Correspondents
A book on the case of the daughter of victims of Chile's 1973-90 dictatorship, who was adopted by a right-wing family, has once again highlighted the conflict between the search for the truth and the various forms of censorship that invoke the right to privacy as well as political reasons.

COMMUNICATION-COSTA RICA: Indigenous Voices Take the Airwaves

By IPS Correspondents
Indigenous groups in Costa Rica are using radio waves to preserve their cultures and traditions, resolve community problems and spread news from their villages in their own languages.

COMMUNICATIONS-ARGENTINA: Paper Gives Homeless Take on News

By Marcela Valente
For the past year, homeless men and women in the capital of Argentina have been producing and selling a newspaper, with the help of professional journalists and church group volunteers.

COMMUNICATION-PERU: Channel 45 – Alternative, Community-Based TV

By IPS Correspondents
Channel 45, a television station run by residents of Villa El Salvador, one of the Peruvian capital's poorest neighbourhoods, puts up a good fight against the area's commercial broadcast giants in competing to attract millions of urban viewers.

MEDIA: Newspaper Circulation Growing Despite Internet/CORRECTED REPEAT/

By Mario Osava
Newspaper circulation and readership is growing worldwide, despite the spread of Internet, the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) reported at its annual congress, held this year in Brazil.

MEDIA: Circulation Growing Despite Internet

By Mario Osava
Newspaper circulation and readership is growing worldwide, despite the spread of Internet, the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) reported at its annual congress, held this year in Brazil.

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Dogfight Over Cellular Licenses

By IPS Correspondents
The Trinidad and Tobago government's plans to liberalise the telecom industry have given rise to confusion, allegations of nepotism, legal battles and a call by the opposition for an official investigation into how cellular licenses are being awarded.
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