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Nicaragua: Facebook is new face of young people's protests
| Nicaragua: Facebook is new face of young people's protests |
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| Sunday, 22 June 2008 | |
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BY TIM ROGERS A new brand of subversive is being born in a country with a history of traditional guerrilla movements: clean-cut youths who wear Hollister shirts and conspire on Facebook. A small and unlikely group of students from well-to-do Managua families showed their solidarity through the simple gesture of forming a Facebook group called ''We Support Dora María Téllez.'' Within a week, more than 1,200 people had joined the Internet group, and the movement began to show signs of transcending the confines of cyberspace in a nation where citizens can vote at age 16. READ MORE: http://www.miamiherald.com/1043/story/579046.html |
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