Global Voices Online

Some time before tonight at midnight, the majority of households and businesses in Aruba will throw a pagara to ward off fuku, says ArubaGirl.

Melody reports that the Belize Free Press news portal has been updated. The site features links to Belize newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations and online news sites.

Teresa Cavanagh has an eye-opening first hand account of last month's election in Honduras.

The bloggers behind Guate360 did a great service to their country by collecting online donations (ES) in order to buy discounted Christmas gifts for rural children around the country. You can still make a donation via Amazon. One commenter notes that the first gifts were handed out on Wednesday in Jocotán.

The traditional Coyol Wine of Santa Cruz and Nicoya is now in season. Costa Rica Blogs advises that you can “hoose from the strong, bitter wine that is milked from the tree at 6 am, or from the sweet wine that comes out when the tree is milked at noon or 4 pm.”

Both Alvaro Ruiz-Navajas and Eduardo Avila have updates on President-Elect Evo Morales. Speaking of a recent Wall Street Journal article on the Bolivian Election, Jim Shultz says, “This just proves how utterly wrong writers can be when they try to paint themselves as experts about places they have never been.”

Toutatis remembers the first anniversary of the Cromañón tragedy, when 194 concertgoers died in a blaze at the República Cromañón concert venue. Toutatis remarks that the tragedy “has changed the way nightclubs, rockclubs and bars in the city are controlled and granted permits” as well as influenced the impeachment trial facing Buenos Aires mayor, Aníbal Ibarra. Blog Argentina calls today (ES) “a day of pain in Argentina.”

Earth, a movie made in India dealing with the 1947 partition of the sub-continent impresses Komiyage Loke.

Razib on a different kind of Bangladeshi export - a p0rn star called Jazmine.

Legal News From Nepal on “Auditor General said that the Welfare Fund of the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) has been used haphazardly without any standard and systematic auditing.“

Metroblogging Islamabad on troops going to Sudan - “Another Batch of 275 Pakistani peacekeepers felt here from Islamabad Airport to serve under UN flag in Sudan. The Contingent comprised officers and men of Infantry, Engineers, Army Services Corps, Medical, and Aviation.”

The links between the Indian Film/ TV industry and Pakistan are more than just skin deep. Metroblogging Lahore on some connections and emotional bonds.

Nigerian blogger, Teju Cole, writes about his arrival back home in Nigeria…

Arjen Westra's African blog writes about his arrival in Kampala, Uganda.………..For the first time I didn't experience the 12,5 hour bustrip on the bumpy Kenyan roads. I flew in: 50 minutes from Nairobi to Entebbe. From there an less than an hour to Kampala

Arjen Westra's African blog writes about his arrival in Kampala, Uganda.………..For the first time I didn't experience the 12,5 hour bustrip on the bumpy Kenyan roads. I flew in: 50 minutes from Nairobi to Entebbe. From there an less than an hour to Kampala