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.