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Nicaragua: Facebook is new face of young people's protests PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 22 June 2008

BY TIM ROGERS
MIAMI HERALD

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.
The cyber-revolution was inspired by a hunger strike launched this month by 1970s rebel leader Dora María Téllez, of Nicaragua's old-school revolutionary left, to protest what she calls the ''dictatorial intentions'' of President Daniel Ortega's government. At issue is a ruling by the Supreme Electoral Council to eliminate two minority political parties in the November municipal elections.

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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