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Luis Carlos Díaz
Luis Carlos Díaz Vázquez (born 15 February 1985) is a Venezuelan journalist and cyberactivist. He has worked at the Instituto Radiofónico Fe y Alegría, the Centro Gumilla and newspapers such as El Nacional (Venezuela), ''El Nacional'' and ''Tal Cual'', as well as a radio host at Circuito Unión Radio, and served as a member of the editorial board of SIC magazine. Luis Carlos was arbitrarily detained in 2019 by agents of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN) during the 2019 Venezuelan blackouts, nationwide blackouts of that year, being declared by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience. He was released the following day with precautionary measures and his case was archived in 2021, suspending such measures. Biography He grew up in the city of Charallave, in the Valles del Tuy, and started using the Internet in 1994. With the popularization of the Internet in the 2000s, he came into contact with the world of blogs where he created his blog ''Periodismo de paz' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central University Of Venezuela
The Central University of Venezuela (Spanish: ''Universidad Central de Venezuela''; UCV) is a public university of Venezuela located in Caracas. It is widely held to be the highest ranking institution in the country, and it also ranks 18th in Latin America. Founded in 1721, it is the oldest university in Venezuela and one of the oldest in the Western Hemisphere. The main university campus, Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas, was designed by architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva and it is considered a masterpiece of urban planning and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000. History Origins The origin of the university goes back to Friar Antonio González de Acuña (1620–1682), a Spanish Bishop born in present day Peru who studied theology at the Universidad de San Marcos and founded in 1673 the Seminary Saint Rose of Lima in Caracas named after the first Catholic Saint born in the Americas. In the following years, Friar Diego de Baños y Sotomayor broadened the scope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Helicoide
El Helicoide is a building in Caracas, Venezuela owned by the Venezuelan government and used as a facility and prison for both regular and political prisoners of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN). In the shape of a three-sided pyramid, it was originally constructed as a shopping mall, but never completed. During the Nicolás Maduro administration, El Helicoide became a high-profile prison for political detainees where systemic torture and human rights violations have taken place. Prisoners have reported "people being beaten, electrocuted, hung by their limbs, forced into stress positions and forced to plunge their face into a bag of faeces and breathe in". History El Helicoide is built on a hill in Roca Tarpeya between the parishes of San Pedro and San Agustín, in the extension of the avenues Armed Forces, President Medina Angarita, and Nueva Granada. It has the shape of a three-sided pyramid with curved points formed by elevated paved roads intended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Guevara Rosas
Erika Guevara Rosas is a Mexican-American human rights lawyer and feminist, and the Americas Director at Amnesty International (AI), Prior to her tenure with AI, she was the Americas Director at the Global Fund for Women. Education Guevara Rosas has a master's degree in Women's Studies, a Post-Graduate degree in Migration and Refugee Studies from York University, and her LLB from Universidad de Londres. Affiliations In May 2015, Erika joined activist Christine Ahn, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Leymah Gbowee and Mairead Maguire Mairead MaguireFairmichael, p. 28: "Mairead Corrigan, now Mairead Maguire, married her former brother-in-law, Jackie Maguire, and they have two children of their own as well as three by Jackie's previous marriage to Ann Maguire." (born 27 Januar ..., and thirty other participants in a peace march across the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea. References American human rights activists Mexican human rights activists Women hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luz Mely Reyes
Luz Mely Reyes (born 1967 or 1968) is a Venezuelan journalist, writer, and analyst. She is known as the director and co-founder of the digital media franchise ''Efecto Cocuyo''. She has received multiple honors for her work. Education Reyes grew up in an impoverished area of Caracas, and so her main aim was to escape poverty, never dreaming of being a journalist. She did not think it was the right job for her, either, but a professor convinced her to study Social Communication. In her first two semesters of it she still did not feel it was a fit. She graduated with a degree in Social Communication from the Central University of Venezuela. She has a Master's degree in Organizational communication and Journalism from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. In 2016, she took a course in Entrepreneurial Journalism at CUNY, studying in the English language. She was an international prize scholar of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and won a grant from the Organization of American Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle (; "German Wave" in English), abbreviated to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget. The service is available in 32 languages. DW's satellite television service consists of channels in English, German, Spanish, and Arabic. The work of DW is regulated by the Deutsche Welle Act, meaning that content is intended to be independent of government influence. DW is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). DW offers regularly updated articles on its news website and runs its own center for international media development, DW Akademie. The broadcaster's stated goals are to produce reliable news coverage, provide access to the German language, and promote understanding between peoples. It is also a provider of live streaming world news which can be viewed via its website, YouTube, and various mobile devices and digital media players. DW has been broadcasting since 1953. It is headquartered in Bonn, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caracas
Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern part of the country, within the Caracas Valley of the Venezuelan coastal mountain range (Cordillera de la Costa). The valley is close to the Caribbean Sea, separated from the coast by a steep 2,200-meter-high (7,200 ft) mountain range, Cerro El Ávila; to the south there are more hills and mountains. The Metropolitan Region of Caracas has an estimated population of almost 5 million inhabitants. The center of the city is still ''Catedral'', located near Bolívar Square, though some consider the center to be Plaza Venezuela, located in the Los Caobos area. Businesses in the city include service companies, banks, and malls. Caracas has a largely service-based economy, apart from some industrial activity in its metropolitan ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. It is the world's largest and most familiar international organization. The UN is headquarters of the United Nations, headquartered on extraterritoriality, international territory in New York City, and has other main offices in United Nations Office at Geneva, Geneva, United Nations Office at Nairobi, Nairobi, United Nations Office at Vienna, Vienna, and Peace Palace, The Hague (home to the International Court of Justice). The UN was established after World War II with Dumbarton Oaks Conference, the aim of preventing future world wars, succeeding the League of Nations, which was characterized as ineffective. On 25 April 1945, 50 governments met in San Francisco for United Nations Conference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Universal (México)
''El Universal'' is a Mexican newspaper based in Mexico City. ''El Universal'' was founded by Félix Palavicini and Emilio Rabasa in October 1916, in the city of Santiago de Queretaro to cover the end of the Mexican Revolution and the creation of the new Mexican Constitution. The circulation of the print edition of ''El Universal'' is more than 300,000 readers. In 2013 the ''El Universal'' website claimed to have an average of more than 16 million unique visitors each month, with 140 million page views, and 4 million followers on Facebook. ''Aviso Oportuno'' is the classifieds service of ''El Universal''. The brand has become widely known in Mexico, and the phrase ''Aviso Oportuno'' is sometimes used as a generic term for the classifieds business. This brand has four sub-sites: ''Inmuebles'', ''Vehículos '', ''Empleos'' and ''Varios'' (Real Estate, Vehicles, Jobs and Miscellaneous). News items are open to reader comments through a simple sign-up system which has resulted i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infobae
Infobae is an online newspaper based in Miami, Florida in the United States. It was launched in 2002 by businessman Daniel Hadad, with the original headquarters in Buenos Aires. Infobae has 450 staff journalists and over a thousand stringers. The company expanded globally with local editions in New York City, Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ..., Miami, Bogotá, São Paulo, Lima, and Madrid, all led by Marcos Stupenengo. The expansion increased Infobae's international audience, becoming one of the most read Spanish-language online newspapers worldwide. Demographics Infobae.com is primarily viewed in Spanish speaking countries: Latin America, Spain and the United States. History Notable columnists *Domingo Cavallo *Geovanny Vicente *Jaime Bayly *Reynaldo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Pitazo
''El Pitazo'' is an independent Venezuelan multimedia franchise. The name " pitazo" refers to whistleblowing. It is part of the Latin American media Rebel Alliance, with ''Tal Cual'' and Runrunes. They also collaborate with NGOs to be more informed on diverse groups of people in the nation. According to ''El País'', the aims of ''El Pitazo'' are to bring news to the most isolated areas. The company director is César Batiz. In 2019 it won the Ortega y Gasset Award for Best Multimedia Coverage, for a report on starving children, "''La generación del hambre''"" ( en, The generation of hunger). The report can be found aConnectas According to Batiz, this is the first time a Venezuelan media outlet has won the award. Censorship Reporters on an ''El Pitazo'' press pass have been denied access to events, particularly covering government activities and elections; a security guard told one reporter he barred from the National Electoral Council that the order "came from above". Actions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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