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May 15, 2008

Brazilian blog for Obama

Aggregated from: The World Wants Obama Coalition

A few months ago Brazil topped our Facebook polls, with 71% of Brazilians backing Obama. Now a Brazilian, Miguel Leonel dos Santos, has started a blog about the election at:BarackObamaPresidente.blogspot.com. Miguel writes: "Barack Obama is the hope for change in the U.S., and will not only promote ...

April 18, 2008

Brazil, USA: Sex, Crime and the Vatican

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Antônio Mello, from blogdomello[Pt], blogs about “Sex, Crime and the Vatican” — a BBC documentary (parts 1, 2, 3 and 4)[En, subtitles in Pt] about children sexual abuse by catholic priests and the shelter provided by the Vatican to the accused ecclesiastics — and a Vatican i...

April 5, 2008

The Global movement supporting Obama is growing

Aggregated from: The World Wants Obama

All around the world an energetic and unprecedented movement is growing in support of Senator Obama's candidacy to be the 44th US President. Some examples of the worldwide movement include: In Trinidad, calypso legend The Mighty Sparrow sings that America could "regain worldwide respect with Obamaâ€...

The world wants Obama - on YouTube!

Aggregated from: The World Wants Obama

There are so many videos being created in support of Senator Obama all over the world what we've can't really keep track of them on this blog alone, so we've created a YouTube channel with songs, news reports, personal statements of support and translations of speaches and songs to other languages (...

March 24, 2008

Lusosphera Reactions to Obama's Speech on Race

Following the international trend, Brazilian and Portuguese bloggers reacted to the controversy surrounding comments from Pastor Jeremiah Wright and presidential candidate Barack Obama's speech on race delivered last Tuesday. Paula Góes sums up the reactions of the Portuguese speaking blogosphere in this post.

March 11, 2008

Poll Results: Japan, Brazil, South Africa, Iraq & London for Obama!

Aggregated from: The World Wants Obama

Here are the results from polls we conducted of 1000 people across 5 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Latin America:71% of Brazilians support Obama, (Clinton 22%), (McCain 15%)61% of Londoners (UK) support Obama, (Clinton 32%), (McCain 7%)54% or Iraqis support Obama (Clinton 25%), ...

March 10, 2008

Brazil: Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and the besieged Latin America

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

There was a lot of talk about the ‘Border Crisis in Latin America' on the Brazilian blogosphere in the last few days. Brazilian people suffer from an endemic form of ‘know-it-all syndrom' and, thus, many of us were talking — a lot — and taking sides about the impendin...

March 3, 2008

Brazil: Following up the Democratic Primaries

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

‘Biscoito Fino e a Massa‘ is closely following the Texas Democratic Primary polls [PT], and reports about Obama's surge toward nomination. He also tries hard to explain the primary's rules in the state, and mention past local cases of electoral mess and misconduct like the ‘...