The Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
ARGENTINA
¡Estamos salvados! Ahora tenemos a Hugo Chávez
Latin America Gears Up as Bike Hub. I’ve been to Buenos Aires, and I wouldn’t try it. Plus, if Buenos Aires is so intent on “improving quality of life”, they could start by repairing the sidewalks.
BRAZIL
Paulo Coelho v James Joyce
Lost in Translation
From Poverty to Power
How Good Governance Made Brazil a Model Nation. I wouldn’t call it a model nation yet.
The China Temptation
Why Brazil should reject Beijing’s economic model.
CENTRAL AMERICA
Confronting Drug Gangs in Central America
CHILE
Catholicism Condemns Chileans to Epidemic
COLOMBIA
Acid attacks in Colombia reflect rage
Car bombs cause major blackout in southwest Colombia, via Gates of Vienna.
WHITEWASH IN COLOMBIA, U.S. MILITARY TAKING THE FALL
CUBA
Swede involved in Cuba dissident car crash concerned about fate of Spanish driver
ECUADOR
PDF file H. RES. 745
GUATEMALA
Ancient Mayans May Have Sacrificed Earliest Domestic Turkeys, via Gates of Vienna.
JAMAICA
Jamaica at 50: A Caribbean island that has far more to offer than Bob Marley and Usain Bolt…
MEXICO
Schumpeter
Narconomics
From HR to CSR: management lessons from Mexico’s drug lords
Mexico Ousts Brazil as Investors’ Top Choice in Latin America
Mexico rises from the drug ravages
Undefeated
A Mexican demagogue rises again.
He May Be Leader of Peru, but to Outspoken Kin, He’s Just a Disappointment, via ¡No Pasarán!
PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico, Drug Corridor to the Mainland United States
Uncle of Calle 13 hip-hop singer killed in Puerto Rico
URUGUAY
Uruguay Mulls Over Legal Government Marijuana Dealing
VENEZUELA
Sean Penn joins Chavez on campaign in Venezuela
Handles like oil, priced like coal
Venezuela’s army
The vote that counts
Would the generals accept a presidential handover?
The week’s posts:
Crony capitalism: in Argentina, it’s a way of life
Estas manos/These hands UPDATED
Cuba: Still no offshore oil, but 1 more foreigner taken hostage
Kenya: Venezuelan ambassador murdered
In The Green Room:
Chavez: American “mercenary” detained in Venezuela
Tags: Fausta's blog
August 18th, 2012 at 11:37 am
Never heard of “orimulsion” before. Seems that it would produce a LOT of high silica ash.
Additionally, China has been granted concessions to develop the Orinoco Belt bitumen deposits.
Petroleum coke produced via an upgrader of bitumen would not count as crude oil either. Not knowing OPEC’s definitions, I’m not certain whether or not “syncrude” counts either. Not knowing the depths of the deposits of the bitumen deposits the ratio of produced bitumen (from wells) and strip mining of “oil sands” is unknown. In Canadian the rise in production is due to produced bitumen of a consistency similar to Boscan crude from Venezuela, very heavy.