Global Voices Online

Don Ball Carbajal reflects on his trip up the Incan Trail in Peru.

The Devil's Excrement isn't happy with the new Chavez covered Metropolitan Police cars in Caracas.

Boli-Nica has a Bolivian-centric summary of the recent PBS documentary based on Jared Diamond's book, Guns, Germs, and Steel.

After a batch of hurricanes and tropical storms, Caribbean Free Radio links to an open source tropical storm tracking software program.

Upside Down Blog has a two part series written by Cyril Mychalejko about an “Anti-Mining Coalition Meeting” in Guatemala.

Blog from Bolivia is keeping tabs on what seems to be a US backed militarization of Bolivia as it approaches it special elections in December.

Barrio Flores reports that in the latest, local Cochabamba poll Evo Morales and Tuto Quiroga are running neck to neck.

Doug of all-encompassingly pays tribute to Argentine racing legend Juan Manuel Fangio.

Jeff Barry has another excellent post, this time looking back on the 1994 terrorist bombing in the Bueno Aires neighborhood of Once.

The group blog Sepia Munity notes that it only took 48 hours for pirated copies of the latest Harry Potter epic to appear on the streets of Mumbai.

Saudi Jeans is discouraged by the latest skirmish in the ‘Should Saudi Arabia allow women to drive' debate.

Mr.Brown reviews the Straits Times coverage of Bloggers.SG 2005, as does Tomorrow.sg.

According to Inside PCIJ, President Arroyo has announced that she will create “a commission or similar body to look into the truth behind issues recently raised against me.” The wording of the statement seems to suggest that the purpose of any such commission will be the investigation of the actions of the President's opponents during the scandal…

Brand New Malaysian has been ordered to removed all links to Micheal Soosai's website due to an ongoing investigation. Soosai faked his own death a few years ago and later resurfaced with a website alleging massive police corruption.

The Beirut Spring's “No To Terrorism” banner has made an appearance on the BBC's website.

Bankelele has a brief rundown of the mismangement charges levied against the Central Bank.

The Jordanian blog Mental Mayhem discovered that she had been quoted in the Times of London. Unfortunately, they got her URL wrong…

Japanpundit brings us the tale of a
professional wrestler-turned-politician who is accused of using public funds to travel to a wrestling match. The wrestler/politician–who refuses to take his mask off during legislative sessions–denies the charges.

Here's a great new blog that'll be covering the upcoming elections in Azerbaijan. It apears to be affiliated with a new on-line effort to cover Central Asia called Thinking East. (via oneworld)

Sami of An Iraqi's Thoughts laments continued corruption in Iraq: “The collapse of Iraqi society in front of your eyes is sad, sad because the end of the tyrant was meant to bring a new beggininng.”

Husayn Uthman, who writes Democracy in Iraq (Is Here!), compares the London bombings to daily life in Iraq: “I am very sad to see what happened in London, but for me, it is nothing new, those of us in Iraq have become used to tens of people dying on a daily basis, it is sickening, as I think we have become used to it, almost as if we are losing our humanity in the midst of so much death, pain and agony.”

Raed Jarrar writes that “I used to daydream during my high school years in Baghdad about the day that Saddam will fall; it was one of my fantasies. I wanted to know all the secrets behind his irresponsible and aggressive decisions since he came to power in the early eighties.” He's afraid that the trial against Saddam will prevent the truth about his other atrocities from coming to light.

Gulf News is reporting that the UAE blog Secret Dubai Diary has been blocked by the state telecommunications company. This is believed to be the first blog blocked by the UAE.

Macam-Macam reports that a tentative peace deal in the war-torn Indonesian provice of Aceh has been reached.

In an apparent bid to reduce energy consumption, the Indonesia government has ordered television stations to stop broadcasting between 1 and 5 a.m. for the next six months, reports Jakartass.

SimonWorld looks the complicated world of press freedom in Hong Kong.

A Fistful of Euros looks at demographic information that examines the closing gap in life expectancy for west and east Germans.

The 3rd World View points out an article about blogging in a Bangladeshi newspaper that features his site.