Global Voices Online

Wave Making notes that the popular, controversial (and often offensive) blog, Pinches Chinos has celebrated its one year anniversary and takes the occasion to examine the complex feelings Mexicans have towards China. As always, the post is also available in Spanish.

Leon Kadoch sees a bright future for up-and-coming Panamanian musician, Manuel Escala.

Author and activist, Luis J. Rodriguez offers his experience at last week's World Social Forum in Caracas.

Vikrum reflects on visiting Dharamshala - the town which is now home to refugees from Tibet, and houses the Tibetan Government in Exile.

BlogHer's new “internationalized” site is now online, with Karen Walrond covering Latin America and the Caribbean.

Indigenous issues blog Voice of the Taino people links to an article entitled “Christianity, Capitalism, Corporations, and the Myth of Dominion”, noting that the “Roman” Catholic Church still has not properly addressed the call by the Taíno and other Indigenous Peoples world wide for the revocation of the 1493 Inter-Ceatera Papal Bull” and that “as Samuel Alito is posed to be confirmed as its next justice, for the first time in U.S. history, five Roman Catholics — a majority — would now sit on the Supreme Court”.

Yamfoot posts two photos of Grand Anse beach, and wonders if the sea's unusual turbulence in the second could mean that submarine volcano “Kick ‘em Jenny” is acting up.

MediaCritic has begun posting a series of conversations with anonymous Guyanese figures. So far he's conversed with London-based Guyanese, Prodigal, a journalist who's moved to another island, and Young Bright Guyanese Female. And Guyana Diaspora profiles CCH Pounder, Guyana-born star of television series The Shield.

Caribbean Colors ventures out on to the highways and byways of Belize during the recent flooding, and takes some photos.