Daily Report
Exiled Chiapas newsman dies in Miami
From the Editor & Publisher, Jan. 22:
Conrado de la Cruz Jiménez, the publisher of the most influential daily in the Mexican state of Chiapas, has died in Miami, where he fled to escape prosecution by the state government, the Mexico City newspaper El Universal reported.
Mexico: Calderon responds to "tortilla crisis"
On Jan. 18 center-right Mexican president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa and a group of business executives signed an agreement to hold the price of corn at 8.5 pesos ($0.78) per kilogram. The plan for de facto price controls, a shift from Calderon's free market agenda, came after corn prices jumped from about six pesos in most of 2006 to 10 pesos ($0.90) in January. The "Agreement to Stabilize the Price of the Tortilla" will be in effect until April 30, when it will be subject to review. (AP; La Jornada, Jan. 19)
Iraq: campaign to repeal sharia law in Kurdish constitution
From the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), Jan. 22:
To: Kurdistan Regional Government
International Campaign to remove Article No 7 from the Kurdistan regional constitution!
Article 7 of the proposed constitution for Kurdistan is an open threat to the rights and freedoms of the people.
Armenian editor assassinated in Turkey
This is what George Bernard Shaw called "the extreme form of censorship." From the New York Times, Jan. 19:
ISTANBUL — The editor of Turkey's only Armenian-language newspaper was assassinated today on an Istanbul street.
Bloggers in the news: China
From the China Daily, Jan. 18:
An online campaign initiated by a television host to drive Starbucks out of the Forbidden City has won the backing of more than half a million netizens, who see the presence of the coffee chain in the heart of Beijing as an insult to Chinese culture.
Bloggers in the news: Egypt
From the AP, Jan. 19:
CAIRO — An Egyptian blogger went on trial Thursday on charges of insulting Islam and causing sectarian strife with his Internet writings. Egypt's first prosecution of a blogger came as Washington has backed away from pressuring its Mideast ally to improve its human rights record and bring democratic reform.
Iranian activists condemn revisionist confab
Another glimmer of hope—or is someone going to rain on our parade by demonstrating that these people are all domesticated neocons or State Department dupes? From the AP, Jan. 19:
NEW YORK - In a statement to be published next week, more than 100 Iranian activists outside that country have condemned its recent conference questioning the Holocaust.
Amazon's "uncontacted" peoples: more than thought, facing peril
From the New York Times, Jan. 18:
BRASÍLIA — Far more Indian groups than previously thought are surviving in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest isolated from the outside world, but they risk destruction at the hands of encroaching loggers and miners, experts said Wednesday.

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