Applause for Casarosa

A month ago Fabricio Casarosa didn't even know what a blog was. On February 19th he created his own blog and the following Sunday, with the blog, he really shook up politics in the province of Chubut that ended with the resignation of a teacher from the Universidad de Chubut who was accused of collaborating with the Triple A (Alianza Anticomunista Argentina, [a paramilitary organization that acted with military/government]).
Fabricio is one of the most brilliant young political leaders from Chubut of his generation and he is politically active in Generación K.
After Casarosa published informal charges on his blog, an online newspaper uploaded the information and then an avalanche of emails poured in, youth groups asked for the teacher to be removed as well as later publications in different graphic media.
Occurrences like this, where an extremely valuable testimony is heard by all, show us to what degree this tool is beginning to influence the reality of politics.
In 1995 a group of bloggers and journalists (including Pablo Manzini and Dario Gallo) set up the “Casa de Mafalda” blog and asked the Buenos Aires City Government for a commemorative plaque to be placed at the house where Mafalda "lived": Chile 371, San Telmo, Capital Federal.
More than 300 people from all over the world (readers of Quino), signed the blog. And finally, at the close of 2006, the law was passed that ratified the placement of the plaque that said “Mafalda sat here”.
This is good news for all of us that have enjoyed her stories throughout the years, as well as for those imagination revolutionaries.
The blogosphere has several unique characteristics. The most interesting one refers to the fact that it is a communications medium that cannot be controlled by the mass-media.
This is why it is deeply democratic and we must encourage its use so that more citizens take a stand and speak-up. Today the blogosphere is a mass distributed, citizen-used, open and free communications medium.