Elizabeth Rivera · November, 2011

Latest posts by Elizabeth Rivera from November, 2011

Mexico: Twitter User Questioned Over Controversial Tweet

  14 November 2011

A Mexican Twitter user know by his nickmane @mareoflores was summoned to clarify, apparently without an arrest warrant, a tweet published before the Interior Secretary's helicopter accident that had "foreseen" his death. Miguel Angel Guevara reports on the first Twitter reactions.

Colombia: FARC Main Ideologue “Alfonso Cano” Killed

  9 November 2011

Alfonso Cano, the top leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), was taken out on November 4 in the department of Cauca during combat against the army. Colombians reacted to his death in their blogs, and also expressed their opinions on Twitter using the hashtag #AlfonsoCano.

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