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October 31, 2008

Today's Faves: Dubai, Perth and Lima

Voices without Votes continuously aggregates interesting links about the election from world bloggers. Our authors take turns picking their top 3 personal favorites every weekday. Today's picks take us to the United Arab Emirates, Australia and Peru.

October 17, 2008

Bush Signs Trade Deal

Aggregated from: PoliGazette

U.S. President George W. Bush signed another (free) trade deal with South American countries on Thursday. The deal is not new, but merely a one-year extension of an earlier treaty known as the Andean Trade Preference Act. “We want there to be a prosperous neighborhood. It’s in the int...

September 11, 2008

Peru: Internet and Religion in the U.S. Election

Ernesto Cardenas, a Peruvian blogger who resides in Spain wrote a post [es] with some reflections on internet and religion and their role in the U.S. elections. He also makes a comparison of how this issue of religion was also present in recent Peruvian elections and concludes by saying that separation between church and state is maybe not as clear as we are used to in the U.S. Juan Arellano translates.

April 30, 2008

Peru: MRTA No Longer on US Terrorist List

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

Silvio Rendon of Gran Combo Club [es] notices that the guerrilla group MRTA (Revolutionary Movement Tupac Amaru) is no longer listed on the U.S. list of terrorist groups, and that its declassification was made with little fanfare. ...

April 29, 2008

U.S. Navy Humanitarian Mission in Latin America a Smokescreen for New Buildup in Region

Aggregated from: VivirLatino

I have a healthy cynicism when it comes to the U.S. military, so when this morning I read that the U.S. Navy was sending a warship it used in the Iraq War in 2006 filled with Navy doctors, nurses, dentists, medical technicians, veterinarians and Seabee construction sailors to Guatemala, El Salvador...

March 7, 2008

Peru: Bloggers Provide Thoughts on U.S. Elections

The primary elections in the United States has aroused interest all over the world. Peruvian blogs are not foreign to that interest and are concerned with the subject in many ways, such as simple references, casual commenting, analysis of the situation or just by reproducing things that have appeared on the web. In this post, Juan Arellano sums up some of the original content he was able to find online.

February 3, 2008

Peru: Free Trade Agreement Mentioned in Democratic Debate

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

Carlos Quiroz of Carlos @ DC points out how the Free Trade Agreement between the US and Peru was a topic of discussion in a recent debate among Democratic candidates in the United States. ...