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Beautiful Horizons calls the Bush-Lula joint statement a “study in hypocrisy. Boz says the U.S. must follow through on promises to cut farm subsidies. Comings Communique wishes Brazilian protesters against Bush would get better translators.
Rob Mercatante discusses Guatemala's place in Western Hemisphere drug smuggling while Chapinadas is thankful for the aid of 600 Cuban doctors [ES] currently in Guatemala to help hurricane Stan victims.
Descriping here hometwon during her Eid vists, Farah says, “I cannot begin to describe the comfort I'm instantly overcome with as soon as I set foot in to this land. It is a land where simplicity prevails, where maintaining a kind heart and an affectionate, caring and God fearing soul is the underlying constitution, and where mud homes stand tall and persist to look modernism in the eye.
As shameless as this may sound,(it is my hometown after all,) it is a land where men can still be described as gallant, chivalrous, and courteous, and where getting the female tingles all over as a result of these fine young men's ongoing fine deeds is the norm.”
Luís Afonso Assumpção goes through the speculation that the Cuban government helped finance Lula's presidential campaign. Comings Communique posts an audio file describing, among other things, Brazilian red tape.
Nadine Farid offers an up-close description of the rioting at the Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata.
Guillermo Juan Parra introduces Venezuelan poet and novelist, Antonia Palacios and posts the first of eight translated poems.
Head Heeb reports on the latest developments in the conflict in ‘Cote d'Ivoire. French peacekeeping troops are once again responsible for the death of an Ivoirian - this time a local gang leader - who was suffocated to death by an amored vehicle. However Heeb points out that this time “the French government seems to be doing the right thing with respect to this killing; the soldiers involved are facing charges, and their commanders have been suspended pending investigation. At the same time, it is further proof that the French presence in Cote d'Ivoire is turning into a case study in how long-term peacekeeping can turn into counterinsurgency” .
Tanzanian/Ugandan blog East African_Peripetatic reports that Ugandan democracy is still ” a big dream“
Ethiopundit provides an analysis of the government of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia 14 years after liberation “MELES THE SUPERMAN SWALLOWS GOLD AND SPOUTS JUNK“
I strongly believe this is the real reason for the Mauritanian government striking a deal to settle the dispute with...
Miran, I love this post. I live in Qatar and to be honest, all you ever see is girls ignoring...
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==> As Africans we need to let go of our victimhood, inferiority complex & acceptance of the mediocre. We deserve...