Mockus won the Internet campaign

The official Website of Antanas Mockus

Colombia 2010 is probably the first massive Internet presidential campaign in Latin America and one of the most significant examples in the world of how Internet has changed politics. A few days before the election, the positions have been completely changed in comparison with what it was at the beginning of the presidential campaign. And Internet has played a major role. The last few days have seen the irresistible rise of Antanas Mockus, who seemed to be marginal at the beginning, the long fall of well-established candidates like Noemi Sanin or German Vargas Lleras.

The singer, the president and a “H1J0D3PU7A”

Here is another proof of how Twitter has changed the way people communicate, especially celebrities. And so on, as the story has many dimensions. Colombian singer Juanes worsened the diplomatic crisis between Colombia and Venezuela. The reason: a message he left on his Twitter account. The man who sang “La Camisa negra” made a joke. “They just gave me the PIN code of Hugo Chavez’s cellphone. Do you want it? It is H1J0D3PU7A”. Well, not so funny, it makes me better think about the jokes children make with their calculator. But the fact is that the relationship between Colombia and Venezuela were particularly tight.