· September, 2005

Stories about Latin America from September, 2005

Mexico: Criticizing Mexican Culture

Mark in Mexico tries to defend an earlier post in which he was critical of Mexican culture and corruption. Today's post has new examples of cultural deficiency such as unclean...

1 October 2005

The State of Bolivian Blogs

Este artículo también está disponible en español Over the past year, the number of blogs about Bolivia, by Bolivians and by those living in Bolivia has multiplied. Projects like Blogs...

30 September 2005

Chile: March Supporting Gay Rights

Andrés Duque has a summary of last weekend's march in Santiago, Chile to celebrate the “decision by the Education Ministry to adopt sexual orientation non-discrimination language in the standard high-school...

30 September 2005

El Salvador: Evacuation Unpreparedness

After summarizing an investigation which found that the Salvadoran government “has done little to prepare to evacuate the 12,700 people who live beside the Ilamatepec (Santa Ana) volcano,” Tim's El...

30 September 2005

Mexico: Chespirito

Matthias Goodman has an exhaustive post on the career of famed Mexican slap-stick comedian, Chesperito.

29 September 2005

Bolivia: Global Perspective

MABB has a collection of news excerpts from around the world relating to Bolivia including a focused look on U.S. interest in the region.

29 September 2005

Brazil: A Blogger's Introduction

Claudio Tellez, a German-born, conservative, Chilean mathematician living in Brazil offers an introductory first post on his new English-language weblog.

28 September 2005

Venzuela: Starting to Dialogue

Responding to recent violations to freedom of speech in government-run media, Venezuelan bloggers have launched a collective weblog, En Diálogo [ES] (In Dialogue). The blog intends to bring people together...

28 September 2005

Bolivia: Latest Poll

Barrio Flores has the results from the “latest” pre-election poll taken nearly three weeks ago. Eduardo wonders if the numbers have changed since front-runner Evo Morales announced he would end...

28 September 2005

Argentina: Podcast Directory

podcast.com.ar has a comprehensive list of the few podcasts currently being produced in Argentina along with a larger list of podcasts from the Spanish speaking podosphere.

28 September 2005

Bolivia: BBC Makes Factual Error

Miguel Centallas caught a factual error in a BBC article about Bolivia's election status, which so far has not been corrected. Several comments following the post are critical of BBC's...

26 September 2005

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