Colombia: kidnapped journalist and author released by guerrilla
PEN is delighted to report that the veteran Spanish-Colombian journalist and author Salud Hernández-Mora was released by the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group on the afternoon of May… More
Jineth Bedoya Lima | Status: Under Threat | Colombia
Jineth Bedoya Lima is a Colombian journalist who reports on law enforcement, paramilitary groups, and abductions within Colombia. Bedoya Lima was abducted twice while reporting—once on May 25, 2000,… More
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On this week's THESE TRUTHS episode, Mexican authors Fernanda Melchor (@fffmelchor) and Yuri Herrera, discuss the importance of silences in storytelling & how literature can open the door to a more truthful—and more complicated—understanding of culture: https://bit.ly/2TNm3wJ.
There are relatively few titles translated from Chinese into English each year. One of the reasons there may be so little literary trade between the two countries is that a great deal of the most dynamic and honest writing in China is taking place online.
https://lat.ms/3chvjQc
Beijing ordered that a new law be written to extend many of mainland China’s security practices to #HongKong, creating broad powers to quash unrest.
https://nyti.ms/3gvQ5Pg