Latin American blogs

Now it is time to explore a few, just a very few, Latin American blogs.
Greg Weeks edits the academic journal The Latin Americanist, and his blog Two Weeks Notice is a good place to start for the political science perspective. A blog also called The Latin Americanist rounds up stories on business, politics and culture. La Profesora Abstraida writes about Mexico. The Latin American News Review gives a left perspective of LA politics. Ricardo Carreon is a Mexican living in Brazil who works for Intel; he gives a great overview of how the Mexican elections have motivated a host of new bloggers.

En castellano:EBRmx (El blog de Rodrigo) is described as a "citizen journalist" blog and has incredible photos, a huge blogroll of press sites, and a soundtrack! Chilangabanda is a metroblog about el D.F.--more commercial and cultural than political. NO HAY TAL LUGAR is a fabulous feminist creative "space" where Cristina Rivera Garza writes. Her co-conspirators include Amaranta Caballero, and they sometimes hang out together in their "ciberestudio" Un Blog Propio.

Mexico-in-English is a good place for folks who don't speak Spanish to connect with Mexico. Here is a clip of Lila Downs singing La cumbia del mole. And here's the biggest, most comprehensive Frida site.