Stories from 10 October 2006
Panama, Argentina: Blogging Chefs Unite
Panamanian chef Melissa De Leon is on vacation in Uruguay and Argentina, where she met fellow chef and fellow blogger Dan Perlman.
El Salvador: Assassination Attempt on President
Tim Muth has two posts on the alleged assassination attempt of President Tony Saca.
Mexico: Oaxaca Remains at Standstill
On indigenous peoples day, Vivir Latino takes a at the ongoing protest in Oaxaca, Mexico, commenting that “it is important to look throughout our Americas at the people leading struggles in the name of their community's future.” Writing from Oaxaca, Mark in Mexico translates an opinion piece by Sergio Sarmiento...
Brazil: Lula Debates
After citing a poll which puts President Lula da Silva in the lead with 54% compared to Alckmin's 46, Boz gives his impressions of Sunday's debate: “Alckmin risks losing votes by appearing to bully the president, who is fairly well liked.” Colin Brayton also offers his thoughts.
Argentina: Music: Nicolás A. Alonso
Fernando Casale introduces readers to the “brief but intense album of experimental music composed and interpreted by Nicolás A. Alonso, guitarist and pianist of Turpentine. The album was released under a Creative Commons BY 2.5 AR license so you can remix and republish it without restrictions as long as Alonso...
Bolivia: Recommended Links and Movies
Eduardo Ávila recommends three Bolivia-centered links. Jim Shultz reviews the film Quien Mato a la Llamita Blanca? (Who Killed the Little White Llama?) by Rodrigo Bellott and links to its trailer.
Panama: Zombie Walk
Eric “Butter” Levy and Rob Rivera [ES] introduce Panama's first “Zombie Walk.” Jorge Yau has made a badge to promote the event.
Venezuela: Rosales’ Mi Negra Plan
Oil Wars dissects the “Mi Negra” plan of opposition candidate Manuel Rosales and concludes that Rosales is a “phony populist.”
Nepal: Baluwatar Talks
United We Blog! with more on the Baluwatar talks and the outcomes. “Very much unlike the interview of Prachanda which expressed doubts even in the occuring of the Summit Talks, both the SPA and Maoists have expressed hope of its success. At the end of the meeting which lasted for...
Pakistan: Zaakat
Metroblogging Islamabad on Ramadan and Zaakat. “Mosques are full of the faithful worshipers. The bazaars and streets are full of a new type of beggars! These men, women and children are not asking for charity any more. They are demanding ‘Zakaat’. And they are getting it!”
Africa: blogger identity
Uaridi's contribution to the 1st Carnival of African Women is a post about Blogger Identity: “I do not blog about poverty, race, gender and justice. These remind me too much of my work, and much as I love it, I want to stop thinking about it when I am at...
Africa: poem for 1st Carnival of African Women
A poem from Mshairi for the 1st Carnival of African Women.
Jamaica: Rising stars
Stunner gives a post mortem of the Rising Stars television talent show recently concluded in Jamaica.
Jamaica: The 1970s
“Before my ninth birthday I knew IMF was screwing up the economy, socialism was just an appetiser for the communist meal, gunmen would kill you for sporting the wrong colours and Reggae was the music of nasty people,” says Marlon James of growing up in Jamaica in the 1970s. “Still...
Trinidad & Tobago: Double-agent graphic designer?
Nicholas Laughlin is convinced that an advertisement for a meeting of Trinidad & Tobago's opposition party was designed by a double-agent from the ruling party. He supports his claim by annotating a copy of the ad posted at caribbeanfreephoto‘s Flickr page.
Ayatollah Khomeini's Letter: Nuclear Weapons and the End of War
According to various media reports, former President Hashemi Rafsanjani has made public in Tehran a letter from 1988 in which Iran's top commander is quoted as saying Iran would need a nuclear bomb to win the war against Iraq. The letter was written by the father of the Iranian revolution,...
Northeast Asia: Nuclear test
Sun bin blogs the google map on the North Korea Nuclear test and summarizes the test information. In South Korea, there were much discussions in the blogsphere (although I can only get access to English sources). Jodi observes her South Korean friends’ reactions the test: Not surprisingly, however, was the...
Guadeloupe: Telecom Fair
InternetRapide.com explains that at a recent internet and telecom fair in Guadeloupe (Carrefour des Technologies de L'Information et de la Communication, October 5-7), telecom provides competed for consumers’ attention. Now that bandwidth problems have been solved in Guadeloupe, the blogger notes that one of the most interesting new products is...
