>> Russian social-networking website VK aims at displacing Facebook as the Peruvians’ favourite by 2015 as a first step toward establishing its presence throughout the Latin American market, its representatives said. Ilya Perekopsky, the corporate vice-president of VK, said the website intends to win 2 million Peruvian users by 2015.
>> The Venezuelan government has closed down the radio station Voz del Orinoco, which broadcasts in the southern state of Amazonas, because of its “call to rebellion” and for “creating divisions among Venezuelans”. The radio station is owned by Liborio Guarulla, the governor of Amazonas state, who opposes Venezuela’s ruling United Socialist Party.
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