A Facebook group purportedly made up of Mexican nationals living in China has sprung up in support of the Chinese government's reaction to the H1N1 flu outbreak, part of which has included the quarantining of Mexicans.
The Facebook group claims that there is no discrimination taking place against Mexicans there, and claims that there is a lot of "media manipulation" on the issue.
Blogging isn't just confined to the young in Cuba, and someone other than the island's star blogger, Yoani Sanchez, is generating attention abroad with their cyber-scrawls.
The 82-year-old former President Fidel Castro may be out of the real-life spotlight, but his public musings are alive and well in the online world, as Bruce Wallace reports here on Foreign Exchange.
"Castro blogs with the frequency and energy he once devoted to his exhaustive and exhausting speeches," Wallace writes. "His Reflections by Comrade Fidel is translated into seven languages, and remains a fascination for Cuba watchers trying to measure the island's political mood -- though the extent of his remaining influence is unclear."
Click here to read extracts from Castro's online writings.
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City
Photo: Fidel Castro. Credit: Associated Press
*Edited Friday 6:25pm Mexico City time - AP video embedded.
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