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1 August 2006

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Stories from 1 August 2006

Cuba: FidelWatch

Written by Georgia Popplewell · North America, Latin America

The Miami Herald's RSS feed is buzzing today with reports of Miami's Cuban community and their anticipation of the death of Fidel Castro, in light of Castro's announcement yesterday that...

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American Dictionary

Written by David Sasaki · Latin America

There is a persistent myth which says that, save Brazil and a few indigenous communities, Latin America speaks a singular, uniform language. In fact, the Castilian Spanish carried over by...

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Trinidad & Tobago: Replant the land

Written by Georgia Popplewell · Caribbean

Attillah Springer has been an active and vocal participant in the movement protesting the establishment of an aluminium smelter in a community in southern Trinidad. Here, from her Flickr page,...

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International Military Tattoo 2006

Written by Maurina H · East Asia

By now, most of us living in Brunei has seen the International Military Tattoo 2006 either live from the Stadium Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah or on national tv station RTB....

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Lebanon: Qana II on the Third Week of Israeli War on Lebanon

Written by Moussa Bashir · Middle East & North Africa

The war Israel is waging on Lebanon continues to be the focal point of most bloggers in the Lebanese blogosphere. For the third week the posts cover topics such as experiences, expectations and reflections on this situation.

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Poland's Pulse in the Blogosphere

Written by Jordan & Maria Seidel · Eastern & Central Europe

Gushers of cool at the local Mall in Warsaw - by Embe, WarsawDaily Poland is a hotspot in a few ways this week. While the heatwave is starting to take...

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Pana-Blogs Report

Written by Melissa De León · Latin America

#1: Chiriqui Chatter: "US Consular Outreach Happened" Michelle Javor, Vice Consul – Chief, American Citizens Services and Mayra Luaces, Foreign Service National Supervisor, met with a large group of US...

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Zenia reports from Cuba (ES) that “a message from Fidel was read at 645pm — Cuba time — during the information round table on Televisión Cubana, in which he made it known that known that in due course the Cuban people would be given details of the progress of his convalescence, as was the case the time he fractured his knee. . . . “

• Georgia Popplewell

Cuba

“Those rejoicing in the streets of Miami could do well to rethink their jubilation,” says Curzon as he posts an excerpt from a profile of Raúl Castro, the brother of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, to whom the latter temporarily passed presidential power on Monday night. According to Curzon's profile, Raúl is “regarded as more hardline than his brother”.

• Georgia Popplewell