http://www.blogher.com/node/1078 Comments for " Iria Puyosa: blogging on politics, news, literature, art" en http://www.blogher.com/node/1078 <p>Iria Puyosa's bloggity goodness ripples out from multiple places. For English-only readers, you can get an idea of her writing here at her profile on <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/author/iria-puyosa" />Global Voices</a>. She rounded up a <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/2006/01/28/revolutionary-awareness-in-the-wsf" />world of links to bloggers</a> writing from the recent World Social Forum in Caracas, including <a href="http://sarifb.blogspot.com/2006/01/hugo-chavez.html">Sarifb</a> reporting on a speech by Hugo Ch&aacute;vez - with pictures. </p> <p> As so many women do, Iria keeps several blogs for different subjects - she is large, she contains multitudes: for literature, social networks, hacktivista news, art, and blogging about blogging, you can check out her thoughts on Rulemanes para Tel&eacute;maco. For politics, especially her take on current Venezuelan politics, take a look at her poliblog, <a href="http://resteados.blogsome.com" />Reste@dos</a>. </p> <p>I'd like to point out her entry on Rulemanes, <a href="http://rulemanes.blogsome.com/2006/01/11/bitacoras-repatriadas" />Bit&aacute;coras repatriadas?</a>, about bloggers writing from exile. Do they blog and leave home from the same personal/political motivations? Are more bloggers writing from exile, or are they just easier for the world to see because they're displaced? Do Venezuelan bloggers/writers have to emigrate to get world-level recognition? What happens when the exiled blogger goes home? (In the comments, aid&aacute; replies, "El retorno, querida Iria, siempre es traici&oacute;n." [The return, dear Iria, is always treason.) </p> <p>As I read this I realized that my growing list of Latin American blogs to read has a lot of "exiles". I'll keep an eye on my own tendency to pay more attention to the bloggers abroad, and make sure not to neglect the others. </p> <p>Oh and by the way, I had to look up what "Rulemanes" meant, because I'm a dorky gringa who does not know all flavors of Spanish by magic and telepathy. I have about 10 dictionaries. Curlers? Steamrollers? What? No way! The net came to my rescue: rollerblades. Then the title of Iria's blog made sense, kind of: wheels for Telemachus. If you forget your Odyssey then I will remind you Telemachus is the son of Odysseus; he's cheated out of his inheritance and his position by Penelope's maurauding suitors, and he sails off on a trip to other islands to find news about his dad. If I've gotten this wrong, it won't be the first or last time... and I hope someone corrects my understanding.</p> <p>Iria's multifaceted, erudite, intense blogs made a big impression on me - she's a Latin American and now (temporarily?) US-ian blogger not to be missed.</p> <p>Oh and don't miss her humorous dig at the <a hef="http://rulemanes.blogsome.com/2006/01/16/tendras-que-ir-vestido" />naked protesters</a> and the US/Venezuelan response to the Caracas-La Guiara bridge collapse!</p> http://www.blogher.com/node/1078#comments Latin America &amp; Caribbean Media &amp; Journalism Politics &amp; News Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:02:15 -0600 Liz Henry 1078 at http://www.blogher.com