Wednesday, August 9, 2006

Ella uso mi blog como un revolver

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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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous5:25 PM

    Hi Erwin,
    I’m from Edelman (www.edelman.com) and we work for the Panama Canal Authority.

    You asked a very good question about the Panama Canal expansion and you linked to a report from the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA). I don't know if you've had a chance to read through the whole thing, but there are a number of factual inaccuracies in the document that I thought you would want to be aware of –

    For example:
    1) The report claims that the expansion project includes the expansion of existing locks in addition to the construction of a third set of locks. This is is just blatently incorrect. The Third Locks Project does not involve an expansion of the existing locks. This is fundamental.

    2) The COHA report claims that, somehow, the expansion project is going to increase Panama's foriegn debt. This claim is not only false, but, in fact, against the Panamanian constitution. The ACP is prohibited from creating debt for the government of Panama.

    In addition, the report makes blanket accusations, but simply does not back them up. I’d be happy to send you our complete rebuttal if you’d like.

    Moving forward, I’d like to offer to be a resource for you on any news about the expansion. If you’d like, I’d be happy to send you the occasional bit of news or information as well. Please let me know.

    Best,
    Mary

    Mary E. Whittle
    Edelman
    (o) 202.350.6673
    (c) 202.344.6166
    mary.whittle@edelman.com

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  2. Anonymous5:33 PM

    Mary Whittle,
    now that you work for the Panama Canal.. earning a juicy quarter million contract thru Edelman...

    http://www.dealante.com/nodo.php?nodoid=13499

    ...can you confirm if it is true that, inside the Panama Canal Authority there was a survey in which most of the Panama Canal workers voted against the Canal Expansion Proposal as it was presented?

    Will you answer this? Because the Panama Canal Authority wont...

    Mary Whittle...
    are you there?

    ACP MIENTE / ACP LIES

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  3. Anonymous8:15 PM

    Don't know if you have heard...

    PANAMA DID APPROVE THE EXPANSION. 76% of the votes backed the expansion, vs a mere 24% that was against it.

    I guessed you were preaching to the wrong crowd.

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  4. Erwin C.1:16 AM

    "Preaching to the wrong crowd."

    Huh? What do you mean?

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