Global Voices Online

Quemar las Naves sends greetings to his fellow countryman, Juan David who just finished attending Wikimania in Frankfurt, Germany, the first international Wikimedia conference.

Roberto Borrero of The Voice of the Taino People has the latest on two indigenous Taino protesters in Puerto Rico occupaying the Caguana Indigenous Ceremonial Center in Utuado, Puerto Rico.

MABB says populist leader Evo Morales might try unifying the left by asking leftist intellectual, Garcia Linera to run on the same ticket as vice-president.

Popular food blogger Clotilde Dusoulier writes about the vinyards of Montmartre, in Paris. While one does not normally associate Paris with the creation of wine, apparently a large part of what is now urban Paris had been planted with vines for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

Boli-Nica has the entire story of the Zapatistas' recent adoption of a penguin as a symbol of their decade long struggle for indigenous rights in Mexico. The official Zapatista website, adorned with a small penguin, has been updated and now offers an rss feed and a more blog-like format, including comments on posts.

Jim Shultz of Blog from Bolivia looks into the claim that Hugo Chavez is secretly funding Bolivian leftist presidential candidate, Evo Morales.

Ghanian blogger David Mends–who just started blogging yesterday–asks why do we blog?

Bingfeng Teahouse traces the route that a story about an annual rave at the Great Wall took to get to the front page of China Daily. Unsurprisingly, it's a complicated one.

Sarasonteh looks at a Bangkok Post story about problems with the runways at the Bangkok airport and discovers that the real problems were with the story, not the runways.

A guest blogger on Thai-Blogs.com reflects on the differences between her Thailand and her father's Thailand.

Humanitarian Hijinks reports that tensions are running high in the refugee camps and that it's taking its toll on both aid workers and camp residents: “Truth in Darfur is becoming harder to find every day. The only thing most of us can agree on is that Darfur is still a mess - it just happens to be one that boils along quietly while the world is turning its back.”

Benjamin Dangl, who can usually be found on Upside Down Blog, this week does a roundup on Toward Freedom of local media attention in South America about a supposed U.S. military base in Paraguay which the U.S. embassy has denied. Dangl questions if the U.S. military isn't planning an intervention in Bolivia where the left is making big gains as the December presidential elections near.

Journalists inside Somaliland have developed a code of conduct for covering the upcoming Somaliland elections.

The Singaporean blog Little fish chronicles the top ten most popular pieces of Singaporean slang.

Just a week after Marisa posted photos from her visit to Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires, Line of Sight announces that he has finished a painstakingly detailed map of the cemetary which he is thinking about selling and giving a percentage to the cash-strapped cemetery.

Expat Argentina comments on yesterday's apprehension of Serbian war criminal, Milan Lukic in Buenos Aires. She believes Argentina is still struggling to shed its image as a haven for war criminals ever since Peron invited German Nazis after World War II.

Diego, writing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, continues with his third post on debt-for-education swaps in Latin America.

Siberian Light points out that Russian filmmakers are trying to cash in on the relationship between two former Soviet republics by making a blue movie that features the doppelgangers of Georgian President Mikail Saakashvili and Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

Chippla's Weblog takes another look at the relationship between China and Nigeria.

Tales from Disiniland relays a tale about the beloved late politician Raul Roco.

The Kenya Democracy Project puts up a long post about Kenyan women who blog.

Jakartass is worried that the troops that are being withdrawn from Aceh will be redeployed to West Papua.

Beth Kanter wonders how to remove the barriers that face podcasters from Cambodia.

T-Salon points to coverage of CCTV producer and blog portal director Hu Yong's Hong Kong seminar on blogging.

An unfortunate chat room user found that her picture was hijacked by an unknown party who used it as their avatar in an “adults-only” chat room, reports EastSouthWestNorth.

Attending the first annual Funk On-Tour Festival taking place in Amman - Jordan, Roba describes her experience with this Heavy-Metal competition as a complete shock at the local goth/heavy metal scene that she was completely unaware of.

China Digital Times reports that former US President Bill Clinton will be the keynote speaker at the China Internet Summit this fall in Hangzhou.

Blogrel has a great roundup of the fallout from the arrest of a popular opposition politican in the run-up to parliamentary elections in the fall.

DeshCalling has a post on “Inside the Mind of a ‘Suicide' Bomber”.

Notes on animal welfare and loopholes in Sri Lanka on LankaBuzz.

KO has a post on Altaf Hussain, a man wanted in Pakistan, but sitting safe in the UK.

A long-in-the-making report was tabled in the Indian Parliament, but even after two decades, no justice seems to be in the making for those who suffered in the 1984 riots.

Sepia Mutiny on the varying levels of healthcare provided by doctors in the Public Health system and private practitioners. Despite the reputation India has built as a Health Destination, there is still a long way to go.

Maha is doing research for her Masters about blogging in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon . If you are living in any of these countries, go ahead and share your experience by taking this survey.

Mr.Behi is saying that EU/US and Iran are acting so irrational on the enrichment of Uranium and that he do not want a nuclear electricity.

Iraq the Model provides us with a photographic documented example of the controversy regarding the New ‘Iraq Constitution' between supporters of Islamic Iraqi State and Moderate woman’s who asks for their rights in this constitution. On the other had, The Big Pharaoh asks, By God, which group of women look more forward looking, civilized, and hopeful?

From Cairo, with Love is comparing the treatment of homosexuality in the west and the Islamic countries.

Mahmood is coordinating efforts to make it possible to send a Bahraini Team to play next year at Cape Town-South Africa. The Homeless World Cup is an international event that uses the positive power of football to raise the issue of homelessness and poverty worldwide.