La idea nació con el objetivo de responder de manera eficaz a cuestiones que cotidianamente entran en conflicto con el ejercicio de la libertad de expresión y que van desde aspectos constitucionales hasta derivaciones éticas de este derecho esencial. “Hemos querido con la Clínica Jurídica Virtual, cubrir un vacío sobre el tema en México y América Latina y al mismo tiempo crear entre personas e instituciones un vinculo constante que permita ensanchar el sentido y la valoración de la libertad de expresión”- afirmó Benjamín Fernández Bogado.

Editors Note: Fellow Mia Malan returns to South Africa.

Greetings from Santa Cruz, Bolivia! The carnival is over and routine has come back to the capital of the eastern part of the country. Santa Cruz was paralised for one week, with thousands of people in the street drinking, throwing water and painting the walls, dancing with loud music... It was really crazy.Today starts a very interesting workshop organised by the ABOCCS, the association that integrates the main university graduates in communication, in Santa Cruz.

Benjamín Fernández Bogado, reconocido periodista y constitucionalista paraguayo, es quien sostuvo lo anterior en su conferencia “Los nuevos paradigmas del periodismo” e indicó que el periodismo que va a sobrevivir a los retos del siglo XXI, es aquel que sepa contar historias y lo haga de manera atractiva.

Los nuevos y antiguos paradigmas van a ser rescatar los géneros periodísticos, la crónica, el reportaje, la entrevista, la opinión, aquello que nos permita atrapar la atención de la gente para construir comunidad.

A seminar in the largest public university in Latin America, ( Feb. 11) showed me how necessary is to stress on the importance of freedom of the expression and public access to information for a healthy democracy. I gave a lecturer on the Mexican legal tools to reform public services and how important is to pass an Archive law in order to organize public bodies. Many questions arose by people in Mexico are not possible to respond because there is not a national archive organized for public access.

It has been already three weeks!! I arrived to Bolivia with my family the 16th of january to work with the ICFJ implementing a digital platform that will entitle the journalists from rural areas to share their contents and stories. My partner in Santa Cruz will be Radio Fides, a networks of stations owned by the jesuitic company and considered to be one of the most serious and balanced in a country torn by a fierce political struggle between the capital, La Paz, and the capital of the eastern part, Santa Cruz.

There is a sense of failure among Latin American people on fighting corruption. This article was published in the January magazine "Transparencia y corrupcion" in Mexico City and points out the idea that using freedom of expression as a tool could be successful.

Articulo publicado en diarios mexicanos en el dia de la declaración universal de los DDHH el pasado 10 de diciembre.

LIBERTAD DE EXPRESION Y VIOLENCIA

Los pueblos se construyen a través de las palabras. Ellas crean el imaginario de lo posible y lo imposible. Ellas determinan la distancia que separa la utopía de la realidad, la misma que la construimos no solo por lo que decimos sino también por lo que toleramos que digan los demás.

In December 2008, from Monday December 8th to Saturday the 13th, (the week of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations) a series of interviews about the importance of freedom of the expression were broadcasted on Antena Radio in Mexico City and 10 other radio stations throughout the country, Radio Libre in Paraguay and Radio Nederland from Holland with its 1,500 radio afilliated stations all over Latin America.