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[Report] Parliamentary Power to the People
Brazil-based transparency and freedom of information scholar Greg Michener has authored the first major report on the use of online platforms to understand and monitor parliaments in Latin America. Commissioned by the Open Society Foundations, “Parliamentary...![[Inequality] A US – Latin America Middle Class Reversal?](https://i0.wp.com/davidsasaki.name/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Screen-Shot-2012-03-10-at-8.36.PM_.jpg?resize=489%2C411&ssl=1)
[Inequality] A US – Latin America Middle Class Reversal?
Last Sunday Jorge Castañeda wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times Sunday Review warning Americans what happens when a country doesn’t have a middle class. Yesterday he extended his argument in an hour-long interview with Tom Ashbrook. Castañeda argues...![[Translation] The Military and the Homicide Rate in Mexico: A Meditation](https://i0.wp.com/davidsasaki.name/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/OG-Merino1-1.jpg?resize=425%2C254&ssl=1)
[Translation] The Military and the Homicide Rate in Mexico: A Meditation
What follows is my translation of José Merino’s article for this month’s Nexos magazine. With clearly presented statistical analysis, he shows that the deployment of the Mexican military in the so-called “War on Drugs” has led to a sustained...
Fame, Followers, Anonymity and Activism
What follows is more or less a rough approximation of my notes for a presentation I gave on Monday at a conference organized by the United Nations Development Program and the Institute for Elections and Citizen Participation of Jalisco. The panel, “Technological...
#PublicidadOficial
In April 1982 then-President José López Portillo ordered all government agencies in Mexico to cancel their advertising contracts with Proceso Magazine. It was well known that López Portillo ran one of the most corrupt governments in the world at the time, but he was...
Keeping Internet Service Providers Transparent and Honest
In his review of Tim Wu’s The Master Switch, Evgeny Morozov writes: Net neutrality is a simple idea with powerful implications. A neutral net would, for example, prevent cable providers from slowing down their customers’ connections or, worse, banning them from...[Translation] Mexican Interview with Cuban Dissident 4 Hours After Liberation
I’m blown away by the pace of journalism these days – but also, more importantly, the quality. In Mexico I used to surf a lot of news sites to try to get a grasp of what was going on in the country: El Universal, La Jornada, Milenio, Proceso, Nexos, The...
On America Having No Culture
Back in 2005 – when this blog was still a wee pup – I made a mistake common to young American liberals that have recently set out to explore the rest of the world: I claimed that America has no culture. I distinctly remember comments from Derek and Erick...
Como Mejorar el Acceso al Acceso de Información Pública
El jueves pasado participé en un encuentro de periodistas y programadores organizado por Gabriel Sama que se llevó a cabo en Telmex Hub, un centro con entrada gratuita donde la gente pueden usar laptops prestados y una conexión de internet abierta. Cada semana hay...Latest Photos
