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Here are some recent posts from around the blogosphere for your reading enjoyment:

*Tim’s El Salvador Blog looks into the difficulties of measuring poverty in El Salvador.

*Survey by the Pew Hispanic Center shows Latino support has slipped for both the Democratic and Republican parties.

*Via the very informative Global Voices: highlights from Panamanian blogs.

*How can Argentina gain attention to its growing economy? By re-branding its image.

*Will an expansion of the Panama Canal help the country’s economy and attract foriegn investment or sink it into massive debt and preserve social inequality? The Council on Hemispheric Affairs investigates.

*Chile’s first musical, based on that country’s version of “American Idol”, is on pace to becoming the country’s highest grossing local film.

*A look back at a set of cards from 1989 that described “Friendly Dictators” well-known for the human rights abuses including Argentina’s Jorge Videla and Paraguay’s Alfredo Stroessner.

*Guyana’s president set the Election Day for president at August 28. In the meantime, it’s never too early to speculate on a presidential election that will take place in 3 years.

*One less challenger Hugo Chavez has to worry about: Teodoro Petkoff dropped out of the race for president over the weekend.

*Lastly, there are several music blogs that highlight the best in Latin American and world music. From a personal standpoint, I highly recommend all of these music blogs for their variety and knowledge in music:

-Búscate un novio may be off for the summer, but it is a great blog on rock from around the world.

-La Onda Tropical’s motto is “guide to the best Latin music.” They’re not kidding.

-Motel de Moka tends to group their entries according to mood or genre rather than artist. This lends itself to compiling contributions from many different musicians.

-zonaindie specializes in different indie musicians from South America. Most of them you may not have heard of but they are still of great quality.

With that I leave you until the next post sometime on Friday. Take care everyone!

(Images from National Geographic’s photo gallery entitled “Life in Castro’s Cuba.”)

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