Bloggers of the world unite and take over

• Via sports blog Deadspin: Behold the power of Shakira over soccer!
• Mexican comics from the perspective of MIT Professor Henry Jenkins.
• Being physically disabled in the Americas has its challenges (trust me, I know!). Case in point: the difficulties in maneuvering in a wheelchair around Santa Cruz, Bolivia. (Hat tip: Global Voices Online).
• Maternity wear from “an American expat” living in Argentina.
• Plan Colombia and Beyond informs of us of the visit to Washington by the governor of violence-wracked Nariño, Colombia.
• PostGlobal correspondent Miriam Leitao gives her views of monarchy through the prism of Brazilian society.
• Now we can add a fourth official political party in Puerto Rico for the first time in nearly 25 years.
• Compare and contrast: one blogger’s ten reasons why he doesn’t like living in Uruguay vs. a video of dally life in Montevideo.
• If this makes Lou Dobbs a “Hispanic journalist” then writing an op/ed letter to the Washington Post makes me a columnist.
• Yankees vs. Red Sox, Ecuador style.
• Mr. Trend at Alterdestiny wonders why non-religious Brazilians seem to have been “left out of the discussion” regarding the pope’s visit.
• A writer to conservative political commentator Andrew Sullivan’s blog clarifies that anti-immigrant does not equal racist.
• Looks like Brazil’s president has learned a thing or two from George W. Bush, according to one blogger’s observations.
• Death and taxes aren’t the only two sure things in life. Try problems with your local phone company; in this case, the setting is Santiago, Chile.
• One blogger argues on why RCTV should not be shutdown in Venezuela.
• Lastly, we agree with Wonkette who called it “one of the strangest things we’ve ever seen.” Presenting U.S. presidential candidate Bill Richardson’s ads:

Links- Too many to mention!