About Elia Varela Serra
Spanish journalist currently living in the United States after having lived in a number of countries with long names. Interested in human rights activism, citizen media, development, writing, photography, film, Africa and the Balkans. I blog about these and other issues at www.elia.ws (in Spanish), and I also use Twitter (mostly in English).
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Stories
August 25th, 2008
Blogger of the Week: Janine Mendes-Franco
Today's installment of the Blogger of the Week series is taking us to the beautiful island of Trinidad and Tobago, home to Global Voices regional editor for the Caribbean Janine Mendes-Franco.
August 18th, 2008
Eastern & Central Europe
Margarete of The foreigner's guide to living in Slovakia calculates Slovakia's number of Olympic medals per capita that Slovakia, ranking 10th in a list headed by Slovenia.
Eastern & Central Europe
Tybet Watch in Poland reports that Polish weightlifter Szymon Kołecki, who won a silver medal in yesterday's competition at the Beijing Olympics, shaved his head in a gesture of solidarity with the Tibetan monks.
August 17th, 2008
Eastern & Central Europe
Daniel Durini, a Mexican-Serbian blogger, recalls his childhood (second part here) in Belgrade during the late 1970's and the 1980's in his blog Eslavos del Sur [Spanish]
Eastern & Central Europe
The Journeys of Captain Oddsocks recounts important events of Czech history that happened in years ending in 8, such as the birth of Czechoslovakia in 1918 or the Warsaw Pact invasion of 1968, and wonders if something important is going to happen before the end of this year.
Eastern & Central Europe , Central Asia & Caucasus
Pēteris Cedriņš of Marginalia writes about the sympathy of the Baltic states in general and of Latvia in particular towards Georgia.
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