News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 110
CULTURE-CUBA: Night of One Thousand and One Texts
- Inter Press Service
The legendary Scheherazade has exchanged her enthralling tales of 'One Thousand and One Nights' for a compact disc with 1,001 academic articles, essays and books, giving Cubans access to materials that would otherwise be very difficult to obtain.
CUBA: Urban Tribes Prowl Havana Nights
- Inter Press Service
A different city emerges on the weekends in Havana. Young people, whose faces are as strange as they are common, take possession of the city and reinvent it. They are the 'urban tribes,' a global phenomenon that has made its mark on Cuba.
VENEZUELA: New Rules to Rein In the Internet
- Inter Press Service
Controversy has flared up in Venezuela over planned reforms to the law on online media, especially because restrictions that already apply to the content of radio and television broadcasts would be extended to the internet. Portals and networks that transmit messages deemed to be illegal may face heavy fines, or even be shut down.
Yemen Funneled U.S. Aid to Insurgency War
- Inter Press Service
Yemen is diverting U.S. military counterterrorism assistance to an abusive military campaign unrelated to terrorist threats, a prominent human rights group has learned from Wikileaks.
Wikileaks 'Gossip' Merely Annoying in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
Although revelations by the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks concerning Latin America have caused irritation in the region, they have not had any significant effects so far.
ARGENTINA: New Campaign Calls Dropouts Back to School
- Inter Press Service
Convincing young people who have dropped out of school to resume their studies is no easy feat. Which is why a group of social organisations in Argentina are joining with the government to launch a different kind of campaign to bring young people back into the classroom in 2011.
CHILE: Flood of Criticism for 'Retrograde' AIDS Campaign
- Inter Press Service
'It’s much more fun to die of old age than to die of AIDS. And if you die with your lifelong partner, so much the better. Avoid AIDS: be faithful' is one of the controversial TV spots in this year’s edition of the annual anti-AIDS campaign by Chile’s Health Ministry.
CAMEROON: Profits Were Only a Phone Call Away
- Inter Press Service
These are awkward times for the men in the middle in Cameroon's Western Highlands. A profitable niche buying produce cheaply on farms, and supplying farmers with seed and fertiliser at premium prices has been shattered by the sound of a cellphone ringing.
CUBA: Drag Queens and Volunteers Promote Safe Sex
- Inter Press Service
Margot Parapar gets plenty of laughs from the audience with this joke: 'Now the human body is divided into five parts: head, trunk, upper and lower limbs, and condom.' Using his female stage name, Cuban drag queen, comedian and health promoter Oliver Alarcón includes HIV/AIDS prevention messages in his shows.
SPAIN: Wikileaks Revelations Put Pressure on Justice Officials
- Inter Press Service
The highest authorities of Spain's judicial system will have to explain to the Congress of Deputies their repeated refusals to bring U.S. soldiers to trial for the 2003 killing of journalist José Couso in Baghdad. The recent diplomatic cables made public by the whistleblower organisation Wikileaks reveal contacts with U.S. authorities aimed at preventing a trial.
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