Stories about Latin America from May, 2006
The Week That Was – Bolivian Blogs
Bolivians have long resigned themselves to the fact that their football national team will also be home watching the upcoming World Cup on television. For the third straight tourney, Bolivia...
Peru: Voters Safety
Fabiola Bazo describes the measures being taken to ensure peaceful elections this coming Sunday.
Mexico: Preview of Open Source Movie Elephants Dream
Eduardo Arcos informs his readers that a preview showing of the film “Elephants Dream,” which was made using only open source software and is licensed with a Creative Commons 2.5...
Argentina: Music: Travesti
Fernando Casale introduces readers to Travesti: “It means ‘transvestite’ and it’s the name of an Argentinian duo that came out from within the suburbs of Buenos Aires (by the way,...
Peru: Creative Commons Launch
With exclamation marks of enthusiasm, Derecho y Cultura Libre desde Perú announces the planned launch date for Creative Commons licenses to be June 27th at the iLaw Peru workshop.
Mexico: Green Party Luxury Toilets
Wave Making is offended by the “VIP bathrooms” of Mexico's young Green Party candidate. (Also in Spanish)
Venezuela: Luis Velásquez Scandal
Francisco of Caracas Chronicles calls the Luis Velásquez Alvaray affair the “mother of all scandals.” Two days later, however, he wonders where all the coverage went.
Venezuela: Former Yaracuy Governor detained
Commenting on the detention of Former Yaracuy Governor Eduardo Lapi who was Miguel Octavio opines: “Reportedly he will be charged with misuse of funds. Thus, as the robolution robs, steals...
Mexico: AMLO Back in the Lead?
Goleech cites the May 29 poll by María de las Heras, which has leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrado back in the lead with half a percentage point over Felipe...
Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, US: Border Frustrations
In a summary of Latin American news, Western Hemisphere Policy Watch describes tension over the militarized border … the Costa Rica-Nicaragual border. Isopixel is upset [ES] by an offensive song...
Caribbean: What blogging is for
“Blogging … challenges the elitism that pervades the Caribbean and is a great experiment in the democratization of data,” says Geoffrey Philp in a thoughtful essay on the potential role...
Colombia: President Uribe Reelected in Landslide
In a landslide decision (66% compared to runner-up Carlos Gaviria's 22%), Colombians went to the polls on Sunday and reelected President Álvaro Uribe. Here is a selection of what Colombian...
Bolivia: “The Evo and Hugo Show”
Jim Shultz, referring to the recent media coverage on the relationship between Evo Morales and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, writes: “One of the interesting things about having lived in and...
Costa Rica, Peru: Same-Sex Marriage Ban and Anti-Homophobia Vigil
Rounding up LGBT news in Latin America, Andrés Duque writes that Costa Rica's Constitutional Court ratified a same-sex marriage ban. An anti-homophobia candlelight vigil will take place in Lima, Peru...
Global Food Blog Report
#1: Viaggi & Sapori, an Italian living in Sweden, goes home in Venice for the weekend. She was invited to a wedding of a friend: Matrimonio al profumo di muggheto....
What Salvadoran bloggers are saying — violence and generals
The high levels of violence in the country continue without solutions. Much of the violence is tied to gang activity. Blogger Hunnapuh notes that pressured by the business sector, which...
Guatemala: Video of Hurricane Stan and the Weekend's Orange Alert
Patrick of the Guatemala Solidarity Network Blog has posted a 13 minute video of “what it was like in Panajachel when Stan struck last year.” In a followup post, he...
Peru: Cucho La Rosa's New Restaurant
Peru Food describes the new restaurant in Pachacámac village by renowned chef Cucho La Rosa.
Mexico: “Friki”
“Friki [ES],” defined by Wikipedia as someone interested in or obsessed by a topic, is a must-know word for the reader of Spanish-language blogs. As Eduardo Arcos points out [ES],...
Argentina, Chile: El Chaltén
“Just when you thought nationalism had nothing good to offer the world, along comes a wonder like El Chaltén. A town with no conceivable economic or geographic purpose other than...
Argentina: The 25th of May
Yesterday was Día de la Patria in Argentina, which From Bmore to BA explains commemorates the end of Spanish rule. Jeff Barry describes the rally held in the Plaza de...
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