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To the Roots
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This blog will focus primarily for the time being on culture, news, politics, literature, art - things that someone like me, a college student, can mull over and analyze and recommend. I have included blogs that I frequent as well as important websites bringing news and culture from Latin America to the world, please visit some of them to see where this blog takes its cues. This blog will be historically rooted, and by history I want to emphasize the power of the people. This is a people’s blog - people’s politics, people’s literature, people’s culture. The hope is as times change and diplomas are handed out, this blog will enhance itself into a news engine - but for now, I can only look from afar, take others with me, and move ahead together.
- Added on: May 17th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Daniel
- Listed in: News & Media History
- Tags: politics Opinion journalism history latin america investigation
Recent Posts
Environmental Milestones
Deforestation in the Amazon The Guardian has a short recap of environmental milestones of this decade – from deforestation in the Amazon to the heat wave in Europe in 2003 to Hurricane Katrina to the rapid decline in food supplies across the wo...
So Chávez hates golf…Thanks WaPo
As if giving time to golpista dictators or Charles fucking Krauthammer wasn’t enough – the Washington Post is talking about Venezuela (excuse me, Hugo Chávez) again. As a former resident of the Washington area (Manassas, if you must know...
Manuel Zelaya, the Coup and the Americas at the United Nations I
The 64th meeting of the UN is now in session (check the webcast here). With Day One over, I decided to keep track of what our dear heads of state had to say about the more pressing events happening in the Western Hemisphere. Everyone loves the enviro...
Evo Morales defends the environment
It has been a stellar couple of weeks for Bolivian president Evo Morales. He’s leading the polls for the upcoming presidential election. He just negotiated his debt with Spain and delivered a speech at Leganés in Madrid (check out Machetera...
‘Their struggle is not about class’
In what became a very interesting interview, Bill Weinberg at WW4R talks to Hugo Blanco about the state of Peru and the current Amazonian struggle, which erupted this past June. (Follow the latest news from Amazon Watch.) What interested me most was ...
Nailing Descartes to the wall…
Highlighted this morning in the Washington Post, Cattle once ruled the seemingly endless grasslands here, delivering decades of prosperity for Argentina and producing a brand familiar to the world — natural, grass-fed beef. But a quiet revolut...
