Latest posts by David Sasaki from November, 2006
El Salvador: “Best National Wrestler”
Salvadorean blogger Ethel looks through her “Google biography” and finds an entertaining article about her wrestling days.
Argentina: Pillow Fighting
Pillow fighting fans around the world will be overcome by jealousy after reading Alan Patrick's account of this past weekend's blog-organized pillow-thumping flash mob. Make sure to check out the videos at the bottom of the post!
Bolivia: Majority Vs. 2/3 Vote
Bolivia's constituent assembly had been at a deadlock over whether votes would be decided by majority or require two-thirds. A decision was reached/imposed this past weekend, reports Miguel Centellas, Jim Shultz, and Miguel Buitrago.
Peru: 600 Days in Lima
Wolfy Becker has been living in Lima for nearly two years now. Here's an insightful look back at how he got there and what life in Lima has been like.
Costa Rica: 55,000 Foreigners to Get Free Residency Renewal
Bob Glass writes: “Due to critical renewal lag times at Immigration, the government will renew 55,000 residencies automatically. The lucky foreingners are those whose residency cards expire from December 1st and July 1st of 2007.”
Costa Rica: “Doing the government's job”
Complaining about Costa Rica's government infrastructure and services, Uri Ridelman reveals a clever bit of citizen safety engineering.
Bolivia: Constituent Assembly Consensus
Bolivia Rising translates a piece from La Razon about the political forces seeking consensus to resolve regulations for the Constituent Assembly which will rewrite the nation's constitution.
Mexico: Protesting Wal-Mart
Erwin Cifuentes describes Tuesday's demonstration at a Wal-Mart store on the outskirts of Mexico City. Colin Brayton adds that “Wal-Mart is accused of having violated Mexican election laws with impunity in 2006 and so has been the target of disruptions by the “vote by vote” social movement lead by López...
Latin America: Technorati en Español
Martin Varsavsky confirms [ES] that Technorati will soon be available in Spanish. Argentine blogger Mariano Amartino notes [ES], “what's interesting is that, despite the fact that we're just 2% of the worldwide blogosphere, we're recognized as “the most global language” of all [the blogs] that are tracked on the site....
Latin America, Venezuela: Polling Wars
On top of Boz's weekly poll numbers he also ventures into the controversial territory of the Venezuela polling wars and predicts that neither Chavez nor Rosales will win over 54% of the vote. Daniel Duquenal concentrates on Venezuela's state elections and Oil Wars is skeptical of a recent poll that...
Mexico: Spanish Language, English Acronyms
Hipocratico laments the fact that most Spanish-speaking internet users have adopted English language acronyms: “some very popular bloggers use ‘WTF’ to say ‘que onde con esto,’ or ‘what's up with this.’
Panama, Chile: Information Architecture Retreat
Panamanian Jorge Arango gives his impressions of the Chile Information Architecture Retreat and discusses the state of the profession in Latin America. Leon Kadoch, meanwhile, applauds Arango's thoughts on “Casual Information Architecture.”
Mexico: Bradley Will Killed by Friendly Fire
Ballistics tests examining the murder of American journalist Bradley Will suggest a story line of Hollywood proportions. Says Mark in Mexico: “According to Lizbeth Caña, the Oaxaca State Attorney General, and 2 reporters from Reforma, Daniel Pensamiento y Virgilio Sánchez, it is now believed that Bradley Will was shot first...
Mexico: Mexico City
Ricardo Carreón measures the pulse of Mexico City and shows how it has changed over the years.
Peru: Mega Machu Pichu
Pixel y Dixel describes the process used by Scott Howard [ES] to produce a mega 1.5 gigapixel zoomable photograph of Machu Picchu.
Colombia: “Outside the Lourdes Church, the bodies of two men”
“Around 11pm on Sunday night, November 5th, responding to a phone call by a passer-by, police inves- tigators in Bogota found two men sitting on the steps outside the Lourdes Church in Bogota. One of the men had an arm around the other man's shoulder. Neither man was alive.” So...
Venezuela: Opposite Disappointment
Alfredo Octavio, a consistent source of criticism about Chavez's rule, wonders if the opposition would be able to do any better.
Uruguay: The Iberoamerica Summit
From Uruguay describes all the work that went into this year's Iberoamerica Summit held in Montevideo.
Colombia: Studying Should be Like Reading Blogs
Colombian blogger Arlovich Correa Manchola says [ES]: “studying should be just as fun as reading and authoring blogs. But, today, it's as boring as having to listen to anachronistic old people who nest their truth in history.”
Ecuador: Ecrisis.com
Aleksander Boyd's Vcrisis.com now has an Ecuador-focused sister-site, writes A.M. Mora y Leon. The pro-trade Ecrisis.net [ES] so far has little information about who is behind the site.
Ecuador, Guatemala: Podcast on LatAm Issues
Romulo Lopez Cordero of ¡¡¡Cambiemos Ecuador!!! (“Let's Change Ecuador!”) was recently in Guatemala where he recorded a four-part podcast [ES] with Pablo Kleinman, Chilean journalist Pia Greene, and Eneas Biglione about current Latin American political issues.