The Southern Exposure bloggers are pleased to welcome to our team a new blogger from Brazil, Cláudio Shikida. Cláudio is an economist, has recently completed his Ph. D at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and has been blogging on his small-group site, Economia Everywhere, for about...

Regular readers will notice a slightly different feel to the Southern Exposure website. We've tried to reflect comments y'all have made about the site to make it a bit more easier to find your way around & read. Please let us know how you feel about the new site, either...

This is an experiment on a more analytical way of approaching blogging, one step beyond the traditional "read news-post a comment-repeat" cycle....

ção sâö íóúáé êô ÇÃáà ñãõ I got tired of looking at all the butchered diacriticals, especially in Josephine's post. I changed the character encoding to Windows 1252. I hope everyone should be able to post in Spanish or Portuguese now, but if you have any trouble reading or posting,...

Miguel sent some media links for Venezuela that I've added to the national links section: El Universal On-line is one of Venezuela's national newspapers, the last one with free content. Globovision is a site for a 24-hour news network in Venezuela, with live breaking news. Venezuela Today is a portal...

Marcelo has contributed some more press links for Argentina: Clarin, Argentina's largest-circulation daily Pagina 12, from left-of-centre, and InfoBAE from right-of-centre...

I've added a couple of weblogs in Portuguese to the blogroll at right. Economia Everywhere is a 3-man effort commenting on economic topics in the news, usually with an amusing spin. Austriaco is intelligent insights and interviews from the keyboard of Lucas Mendes. I've also started by adding some country-specific...