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The following are several interesting blog posts from the past week. Please feel free to reply in the comments section of this post if you have a specific blog or blog article that we should know about.

If you don’t mind, we’re off for the rest of the day to celebrate our one-year (plus one day) anniversary. New posts will be coming up on Tuesday.

• It seems like Hugo Chavez will get a chance to make his best impression of Spike Lee at a Knicks game. (First left image via this site).

• AlterNet looked at recent Latin America news stories. http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/41179/

• Mark on Mexico described how Felipe Calderon was all but confirmed as Mexico’s nest president, while Global Voices linked to Guyanese bloggers’ comments on their country’s presidential election.

• Ben Dangl survived the “most dangerous road in the world” road in Bolivia and lived to tell the tale. (First right image via this site).

• Thursday was Blog Day and on that day two bloggers found several interesting blogs from Latin America.

• Will future wars be fought over water? Not so said experts including analysts from Latin America.

• Latin America News Review reminded us of the other 9/11- the 1973 coup against Chilean president Salvador Allende.

• Andres Oppenhiemer gave several election scenarios for Latin America in the upcoming months.

• NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg had a thing for Shakira in MTV promo.

• The story behind the libation that would become Cuba’s most popular beer.

• Guest blogger on political commentator Andrew Sullivan’s blog touched on the seizure of Caracas golf courses (second left image via CBS News) and crackdowns along Guatemalan border.

• Be all that you can be (especially if you’re poor and a racial minority).

• Sound Roots posted on Electro Côco (image via this site), a Dutch-based band that blends samba, bossa nova, and electronic music.

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