Tag: Argentina

Jun 09 2010

Arma de Instrucción Masiva

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This Argentinean artist, Raul Lemesoff, has transformed an old car into a mobile library. His rolling library named Arma de Instrucción Masiva ( Weapon of Mass Instruction) aims are spreading...

Feb 07 2010

Americas, Book Reviews, Books, Latin America, Politics, World

Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America by Chesa Boudin

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Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America by Chesa Boudin My rating: 4 of 5 stars View all my reviews I picked up this book because of the title;...

Mar 18 2009

bi/multilingual, Language, Spain, Technology, World

El Castellano.org

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Sometimes is seems like all my friends are trying to learn or improve their Spanish, which I love, and encourage as much as I can. So here’s a tool that...

Oct 29 2007

Women, World

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

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Argentina made history yesterday by electing their first woman president! Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, wife of the current president Nestor Kirchner, and former senator for Buenos Aires won a solid...

Oct 08 2007

World

40th anniversary of Che’s capture

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Today is the 40th anniversary of “Che‘s” (June 14 1928-Oct 9, 1967) capture and execution (Oct 9th) in the Bolivian mountains. After studying medicine in Argentina, and later traveling throughout...

Jul 12 2007

Venezuela, World

Banco del Sur

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Several nation leaders in Latin America seem to be waking up to the fact that International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) loans aren’t truly benefiting the majority of...

Mar 31 2007

Africa, Americas, Asia, Education, Latin America, Open Source, Technology, Tools, Uruguay, USA, World

OLPC – One Laptop per Child

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One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organization trying to address the lack of resources many Third World Countries struggle with and how these affect education and hinder technological...

Mar 16 2007

Archives, Libraries, Technology, USA, World

PLALA – Program for Latin American Libraries and Archives

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This week I got to meet Dan Hazen, Associate Librarian of Harvard College for collection development, and what a treat it was! I was most interested in learning about his...