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 Global Voices. She rounded up a world of links to bloggers writing from the recent World Social Forum in Caracas, including Sarifb reporting on a speech by Hugo Chávez - with pictures.

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 Telémaco. For politics, especially her take on current Venezuelan politics, take a look at her poliblog, Reste@dos.

I'd like to point out her entry on Rulemanes, Bitácoras repatriadas?, 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, aidá replies, "El retorno, querida Iria, siempre es traición." [The return, dear Iria, is always treason.)

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.

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.

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.

Oh and don't miss her humorous dig at the naked protesters and the US/Venezuelan response to the Caracas-La Guiara bridge collapse!