Juan Carreón

Antonio Martínez Luna tiene los días contados,

Al menos eso dicen en Youtube, una herramienta habitual de los narcos.

El vídeo, de 54 segundos y a ritmo de corrido, muestra fotos del procurador de Baja California y le advierte que morirá por lo que ha hecho. Lo vinculan con el Cartel de Sinaloa.

Vía EBRmx

Otra Tele entrevistó a Víctor Hernández, creador del sitio web de el Sendero del Peje.

My blogging adventure started outside of my country, actually while living in Brasil. I can easily say that the whole blogging phenomenon was not very well known to me until I moved to the largest country in South America. Brasil is one of the countries that has at points in time being highlighted as one of the top blogging countries. In fact, Brasil is one of the top countries of social networking sites and sites like Linked In and Orkut are quite popular here.

Blogging in Mexico was not as common when I moved to Brasil more than a year ago. Few blogs were found back then and many had a somehow modest production behind them. In addition to that, blogs did not had large audiences as they did in other countries in which blogging were already booming in full swing. A few initiatives, like the BlogsMexico directory was already there helping get the emerging Mexican blogosphere get developed.

But everything was changed with the Mexican Presidential Election of 2006. The race was very close, even months before the election. People from the different parties and political current saw blogs as a primary vehicle to express their ideas. Blogging became the megaphone that helped ordinary people speak their minds and support their candidates. Blogging in Mexico after the 2006 election was changed forever.

In many senses the changes were very positive, as blogs arrived and filled a space that large media was not filling. In many cases some bloggers devoted many hours to produce very high quality materials. The reason behind this was simple, many were following their passion and therefore the time and effort they dedicated was very significant.

In my particular case, as a Mexican living abroad, I started to get more and more interested on the election months before the election took place. A simple query opened up my eyes that blogs were really taking off. As I was looking for the survey results about the election, I struggled to find the information in the newspaper sites. Most quoted their own polls and it was very hard to find somebody that did a good job of showing all of them in one place. I found a blog that did just that and had all of the surveys under a tag called “encuestas”. I continued following blogs and found voices that allowed me to form my opinion and that complemented the newspapers and other sites nicely.

For me it is clear that the Election was the killer application for Mexican blogs. However, I think that those independent and authoritative voices will continue to play a role on shaping the future of my country. Many of them actually continue to do so.

The main challenge that I see with Mexican blogging is to transition out of the current political stage that was heavily polarized between the left and right (as the country was). If bloggers want to continue to be credible post election, many of them need to leave the partisan hats they wore during the election and continue to play a role simply as Mexicans. Mexicans that go beyond a political tag and that dare to be themselves and blog accordingly. This upcoming transition in the Mexican blogosphere will be a key one to continue to have a strong voice in shaping the future of the country.

Héctos Díaz Polanco menciona en relación a la lucha electoral en los nuevos medios (blogs):
"habría que ponderar la importancia de los “blogs” (entre los que destaca el irreverente El sendero del peje: senderodelpeje.com). Estos medios contribuyeron a fortalecer la idea de que se había urdido un fraude, proporcionaron una abundante información sobre el proceso y establecieron una relación crucial entre ciudadanos y organizaciones civiles de todo tipo."

http://mx.search.yahoo.com/search?p=blogs+and+eleccion+mexico+2006&prssweb=Buscar&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t&x=wrt&meta=all%3D1

Para los extranjeros que disfrutan y padecen la Ciudad de México y además por razones profesionales tienen que seguir la guerra mediática y fuera de los medios entre Calderón y AMLO:

"The fiercest and funniest attacks have come in the form of homemade videos distributed on Internet sites like YouTube.com. In one, Barney the dinosaur and a chorus of children sing a profanity-laden ditty taunting López Obrador. Another video, this one anti-Calderón, offers a primer on 'How To Commit Electronic Vote Fraud.'" afirma Chris Hawley

Manuel Mandujano escribe desde 1987 sobre los mercados de las tecnologías de información y comunicaciones (TIC). Ahora, desde febrero de 2006 edita Compuchannel, revista mensual centrada en el negocio de los canales de distribución de América Central y el Caribe. De ahí la oportunidad de analizar los mercados de esas regiones. En México, creó y dirigió durante 12 años la Sección de Computación del diario Excelsior, la primera de ese país en un periódico de circulación nacional.

From around the region, nearly every major newspaper picked up on this list of polls from Consulta Mitofsky. Every few months the polling firm collects presidential approval numbers from around Latin America and arranges them in a list from top to bottom. Being that the polls were all done by different firms with different methodologies, the list is not completely accurate. However, people like lists and the media likes to say "President Bachelet is the tenth most popular president in the region," even though that ranking really means nothing. This list received more coverage than most polls and despite my criticisms is worth reading.

In Mexico, a poll from Reforma (English info here and here) said 60% believe that a full recount is not necessary. In the "never going to happen" hypothetical second round, Calderon leads AMLO 46-33. A poll from Cronica de Hoy says 56% of Mexicans believe Calderon won and about the same number believe there should be no full recount.

In Nicaragua, a poll from Investigaciones Centroamericanas has the race Ortega 40, Rizo 21, Pastora 19, Montealegre 8. One question I thought was interesting: when asked who is the most honest candidate the results were Pastora 40, Ortega 27, Rizo 24, Montealegre 6. Pastora was polling 1% two months ago. This election still has plenty of time to tip a variety of different ways.

In Ecuador, former President Gutierrez will not be allowed to run and businessman Noboa dropped out of the race, shaping up the presidential field a bit. A new poll with the reduced number of candidates has Roldos 31%, Viteri 21%, Correa 13%.

In Venezuela, a poll from Hinterlaces has Chavez winning 55% of the vote. However, the same poll says that nearly half the population refuses to place themselves in the pro-Chavez or pro-opposition camp.

In Brazil, Datafohla has the race Lula 44, Alkmin 28. Vox Populi has the race Lula 42, Alkmin 32. Randy has a Brazilian friend give some analysis of the race here.

Finally, in the final Apoyo poll in Peru during his term, President Toledo ends with 33% popularity. For someone who spent most of his term fighting to stay in double digits, that's not too bad.