Following the U.S. political conventions in Spanish

Despite the unprecedented role that Spanish has played in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, unless you're fortunate to have access to the CNN en Español cable TV network, extensive televised coverage in Spanish of the Democratic National Convention this week is hard to come by.

But if you can read Spanish, you can find plenty of coverage by from the major Spanish-language news sources on the Web. While I haven't checked all the Spanish-language news sources out there, there are two of them — one in the U.S., one foreign — that I can especially recommend. The first is the Univision website, which features staff-written stories as well as translations of Associated Press news accounts with an emphasis on stories relating to Univision's viewing audience. The second is the Spanish ABC daily, which has at least one reporter covering the conventions in person and is also carrying news service reports.