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Two Blogs of interest in Spanish

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

The parent company which owns El Pa??s, Prisacom, has launched a series of blogs written by various of the El Pa??s correspondents. I have found two of them of particular interest (and they are now linked in the “Blogs I read” section of the sidebar).

Javier del Pino is an El Pa??s journalist based in the […]

No need to say more…

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

American Friends Service Committee

Los Blogueros

Friday, November 25th, 2005

Encontr?© un blog en espa?±ol desde Washington, D.C., Los Blogueros.

Contiene noticias desde el mundo hispano con respeto a Los EEUU, y a veces sus comentarios son chistosos.

Venezuela Distributes Cheap Heating Oil to Poor Neighborhoods in Boston and New York

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

The government of Hugo Chavez, the current nemesis of the Bush administration, has begun a program of distribution of significantly discounted heating oil to poor residents and neighborhoods of Boston and New York as reported in El Pa??s.

Recipients include some 40,000 schools, day care centers and hospitals in Boston, as well as a similar number […]

Hispanos en los EEUU

Sunday, July 31st, 2005

El Pa??s is running a series of articles on Hispanics in the United States. The most recent census data shows that there are at present 40 million native speakers of Spanish in the United States–approximately the same as the population of Spain–and census data on hispanics are notoriously low given the reluctance to be counted […]