Cross-posted at Global Voices
Some of the very best weblogs from around Latin America hardly ever receive mention on Global Voices. That’s because their authors are also contributors there and spend most of their time drawing your attention to others’ posts. Well, it’s long past time to highlight their personal creativity and boundless enthusiasm for new [...]

They say in the news business that one dead person on your block is worth 3,000 dead in a flood in India. It’s a gruesome, cynical calculation but undoubtedly one streaked with truth.
Marc Cooper
I have an annoying habit of comparing tragedy. A college student walks onto a college campus with two guns and shoots 32 [...]

A rundown of what my circle(s) of cyberspace have been up to:
Guillermo Parra, a Venezuelan-American poet whose book Caracas Notebook I highly recommend, has translated an interesting piece by Alberto Barrera Tyszka from last week’s El Nacional. Barrera Tyszka is, most recently, the co-author of Hugo Chavez, a biography. He was also, writes Juliana Boersner, [...]

Grandpa sporting the cool kicks with his mom and dad, 1927
When people who mattered to me died I began to feel that something was required of me. Sometimes something would be required that I could do, and I did it. Sometimes when I didn’t know what was required, I still felt the requirement. Whatever I [...]