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Egypt has disappeared from the internet map. For several hours and almost all of the country (88%) is disconnected from the network. Mobile does not work much of its territory. According to an article Arabist, disconnection, the first large-scale case of a country, took place just after publication of a video of the killing of a demonstrator.

Egypt has disappeared from the internet map. For several hours and almost all the country (88%) is disconnected from the network. Also the mobile phone does not work either in Cairo or other cities. Read the rest of this entry »

The earthquake in Haiti, which struck in January and the release of the Chilean miners trapped 700 feet deep were the ten most important news of the year, according to CNN.

The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 caused more than 250,000 dead, 300,000 wounded and untold damage in the poorest country in the Americas, to which months later joined the cholera outbreak that has caused 2,500 deaths. Read the rest of this entry »

The U.S. president, Barack Obama said yesterday in two telephone calls to the president of Mexico and Prime Minister of Turkey to the leakage of State Department cables were “deplorable”, while Felipe Calderón and Recep Tayyip Erdogan assured him that the incident would not affect diplomatic relations with their countries, according to the White House. Mexico and Turkey are among countries that have been revealed secret information in the filtering of mails to the press by the organization Wikileaks.

Two weeks ago, Erdogan publicly showed his annoyance, since the cables portray him as an authoritarian leader with a direct rejection of Israel and to stop the spread of Islamist influence in his government. Ankara’s alliance with Washington is crucial, since it is the only Muslim-majority country member of NATO and cooperated with the necessary logistics to undertake the invasion of Iraq. “The U.S. is responsible for the slanders and exaggerations of its diplomats,” he told a conference.

In a cable of 2004, Ambassador Eric Edelman Ergodic portrayed in these terms: “Within the party, Erdogan lust for power reveals an extremely authoritarian style and a deep distrust of others. Just as a spiritual advisor Erdogan and his wife Emine says: “Tayyip believes in God but do not trust him.” Read the rest of this entry »

MADRID, Spain, in December. 8, 2010 .- Top officials of Russia’s government admitted last year to a U.S. delegation that had been sold to Venezuela 100 individually operated anti-aircraft missiles, according to State Department cables and filtered by WikiLeaks published today in the Spanish newspaper the Country. ”

Although Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez personally announced the acquisition of such weapons, considered by Washington one of the most destabilizing weapons in the region, had never disclosed the amount or suspected to be so high.

The official reason was the fear in Washington that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were made with an air defense system could be used by one man (MANPADS) and would allow a fighter to shoot down a unit.

With these missiles, which have a range of four to six kilometers, Washington fears that the blackhawk operating in Colombia are an easy target for the Colombian guerrillas.

U.S. monitoring to Manpads was made at the highest level and in July last year, while the U.S. president, Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev met in Moscow, experts from both countries held a meeting which was simultaneously Venezuela as a main character. Read the rest of this entry »

Filtration of diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks has damaged U.S. foreign relations, changing the modus operandi of individuals and governments and provide information to their enemies, today recognized the Pentagon and the State Department.

“For some time, diplomatic relations will be more complicated,” said State Department spokesman, PJ Crowley, in a meeting with foreign press. Read the rest of this entry »

After days of hysterical statements and threats to Wikileaks, Hillary Clinton has imposed a little sanity in the U.S. political debate about the massive leak of diplomatic documents. Secretary of State has concluded a tour of Central Asia and the Persian Gulf, and has been shown that damage to U.S. diplomacy is not irreversible. Clinton said to reporters accompanying him that everything will return to normal. “We continue to work and nothing will stop or slow down our diplomacy,” Clinton said. Read the rest of this entry »

Is Julian Assange a savior of journalism?

It is still curious that this student of physics, active hacker, teenage member of International and editor of Subversive Wikileaks, the website that has jeopardized governments around the world, had said at the Centre for Investigative Journalism Summer School: ” Can not publish a paper on physics without the full data and experimental results and this should be the norm in journalism. ” Certainly, I can not agree more. Complete data, experimental results, and could add reliable sources, budget transparency, that’s journalism.

To be credible a news must pass through the legs of the truth of the sources of funding and the truth of the context. If this is true, as Julian Assange, for scientific information, why does not apply to political information? I say this because the roles that spits Wikileaks from time to time, to the horror of democracies and joy of all the anti-world, violate all the commandments of the famous code of ethics. That is, until violates the axiom that he claimed from the University of London. Read the rest of this entry »

The White House maintains a criminal investigation to clarify the responsibilities of filtering WikiLeaks

Washington fears reprisals. The U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, has assumed that the disclosure of Wikileaks over classified documents of American diplomacy “endanger our relations with important allies in the world.” Read the rest of this entry »