Former editor of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Spain and Latin American/Caribbean diasporic blogospheres. Puerto Rican journalist specialized in human rights issues. PhD research focuses on social movements, digital technologies, gender, and development in Latin America and the Caribbean. I tweet here: @firuzehsv.
Latest posts by Firuzeh Shokooh Valle from March, 2011
Puerto Rico: Violence and Music?
Redod criticizes how the media has created and disseminated the myth of the supposed link of rock and reggaeton with violence. The editor of the music blog Puerto Rico Indie [es] explains that violence is much more than a musical genre.
Puerto Rico: New Artist Collective
The new artistic collective La Tachuela [es] aims to “fixate on starving minds the fruits of collective creativity.”
Puerto Rico: Social Protest and Institutions
The Center for Investigative Journalism organized a forum to analyze the criminalization of social protest. The Center has posted an article and the live stream video of the event [es].
Puerto Rico: “You Will Not Silence Them…”
Illinois Congressman Luis Gutiérrez took the floor once again before the Congress of the United States to denounce human and civil rights abuses that are being committed in Puerto Rico and to the attempts to silence him. He referred to ACLU's report Human Rights Crisis in Puerto Rico: First Amendment...
