Letter from indigenous Mexican man who was denied a US visa to receive an award for internet development

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: September 14, 2017 at 12:35:29 PM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Letter from indigenous Mexican man who was denied a US visa to receive an award for internet 
> development
>
>
> Letter from indigenous Mexican man who was denied a US visa to receive an award for internet development
>
> https://boingboing.net/2017/09/14/ikta-kop-collective.html
>
>      Mariano Gomez is a 23 year old Tseltal from Abasolo, Chiapas,
>    and a member of the Ikta K'op Collective; he is being given an
>    award by the prestigious Internet Society for his work
>    creating "a wireless Internet and Intranet network that
>    provided connectivity and access to information to his
>    community, which has no telephone or radio service," but will
>    not be able to attend the awards in Los Angeles because the US
>    embassy has denied him a tourist visa.



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