Stories from 5 September 2005
Colombia: Comparing Bad Responses
Plan Colombia and Beyond compares Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina with President Uribe's response to the besiegement of Toribío, Cauca by FARC guerrillas in April of this year.
Brazil: Tired of Being Sexy
Atari in Rio is a fan of the São Paulo-based rock group, Cansei de Ser Sexy (“Tired of Being Sexy”) and links to two of their songs.
Brazil: Blog Coverage of Katrina
Brazilian blogger, André Lemos writes on the Best of the Blogs weblog about coverage of Katrina in the Brazilian blogosphere.
Bolivia: Newspaper Info Graphics
Miguel Centallas has a Flickr set of Bolivian Newspaper graphics from May 27 to August 05 of this year.
Bolivia: A Day Without Cars
Both Jim Shultz and Almada de Noche [ES] (who will soon be leaving for France) recap yesterday's “Pedestrian Day” in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Bolivia: Tuto's VP Candidate
Eduardo of Barrio Flores writes that conservative presidential candidate, Tuto Qurigoa has selected María René Duchén, from Santa Cruz, as his running-mate.
Mongolia: Leaders’ mausoleum gone
Mongolia Matters reports on the demolition of the Soviet-style mausoleum of two prominent Mongolian leaders, Choibalsan and Sukhbataar, whose bodies have now been removed and cremated.
Poland: State of disrepair
Polblog has an audioblog and photos documenting the state of disrepair of the Polish capital, Warsaw.
Ethiopia: Photo bloggers unite
See Ethiopia through the eyes of Ethiopians with digital cameras in this stunning photo-blog project.
Puerto Rico: Grassroots Tech Innovation
Kevin Shockey compares the lack of grassroots-level technological innovation in Puerto Rico with that of Ireland. He has planned a small conference in mid-October to “kick start [a] Web 2.0 economy.”
Azerbaijan: Big-name lovers
Omnik Krikorian takes us back to the Azeri roots of one of the world's biggest love stories, Layla and Majnun, and of Eric Clapton's rock anthem, Layla.
Romania: The vampire tour
Just before New Orleans stirred political passions over at Working Definition, the city shimmered briefly into focus in an earlier post about vampires, real and imagined, around the world. Not to be missed.
Jamaica, Bolivia: Costly Internet Access
Yannick Laclau posts a reader's email about the price of internet access in Jamaica and Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Katrina: A view from Romania
Romania-based Working Definition starts, and sustains, a debate about racism and poverty in the United States in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Argentina: Thoughts on New Orleans
Argentinian bridge-blogger, Jorge Gobbi conveys some demographics and says [ES], “it's difficult to not make the correlations and see how, in an area particularly populated by Blacks, many of them poor, federal government aid took an eternity to arrive.”
Zimbabwe: Why Mugabe paid up
Zimpundit analyses the decision by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to make a debt repayment to the International Monetary Fund.
Zimbabwe: Comparison with Hitler
Cane Rat, writing on the Sokwanele Civic Action Support Group blog, likens Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to Hitler just before he lost the war.
Ethiopia: Revolutionary lesson
Ethiopundit has some deeply ironical suggestions for the government of Ethiopia as he examines the friendship between the Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez and the father of Cuban socialism, Fidel Castro.
Argentina: New Photos
Line of Sight has added an impressive collection of new photos from around Buenos Aires.
Sudan: Foreign-focused news values
Aid worker Sleepless in Sudan welcomes a report from Reuters about an attack on a foreign aid convoy in the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur, but reminds the world that mainstream media could “probably publish an article like this about incidents involving local people every day.”
Ghanaian music: A hip life
Abocco at GhanaConscious blogs about a Ghanaian-led “hip-life” gig in Cambridge, Mass., and gives a feel for the genre.
