Fausta’s Blog

Welcome to the Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean. If you would like your links included in the next Carnival, please email me.

The top story: The murder of Guatemalan lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg. Check out the links below, particularly Mary O’Grady’s excellent article on the ProReforma project.

(For posts on Padre Alberto click here)

LATIN AMERICA
Via Dymphna, The growing Afghanization of Latin America

ANTIGUA
Stanford Bank’s Antigua receivers can seek bankruptcy in US

ARGENTINA
¿El principio del fin de la “era K”?

Argentina: Shiny, Happy Jews Brutally Beaten at Street Fair

Argentina’s legislative election
Double or quits: The Kirchners’ electoral gambit

BOLIVIA
Standoff between Evo Morales and media outlets escalates

Bolivian Court Orders Arrest of Fugitive Officials

BRAZIL
Brazil and China eye plan to axe dollar

CARIBBEAN
BBC Caribbean report (audio)

COLOMBIA
Will Uribe change the constitution and run again? The Economist says “yes,” while a member of his cabinet says “no:”
Presidential re-election in Colombia: Uribe edges towards autocracy
A popular president seems to be heading towards a third term, despite the damage this would do to democracy

Tiene la “intuición” de que Uribe no buscará una segunda reelección

CUBA
Wanted: Cambio We Can Believe In

Things are getting better in Cuba

U.S.-Cuba Sanctions: Bitter Pill, Good Medicine

Careful with the spontaneity

ECUADOR
Is the Obama administration condoning Ecuador’s default?

In Ecuador, Resentment of an Oil Company Oozes

Correa and U.S. Democrats Must Quit Claim its Specious Lawsuit, Correctly Called an Extortion Racket, against Chevron Texaco

GUATEMALA
Guatemala murder scandal deepens

President, Murderer, or Both?

Ni familiar, ni amiga, ni complotista… ni apatrida

Finally, a Real Revolution
A civil-society movement emerges in Central America.

HAITI
Bill’s new gig: Clinton to be named UN special envoy on Haiti

MEXICO
Mexican Bank Pays $355,340 Above Cost in Dollar Sale

Mexicans fear America is becoming the land of unemployment not opportunity
In good years, the US runs on Mexicans but the American Dream is losing some of its most devoted fans, says Tom Leonard

PERU
No gay police in Peru

Bolivia estudia demandar a Perú ante La Haya

URUGUAY
Mario Benedetti: Retrato Critico

VENEZUELA
The Chavez bubble: The increasing probability of the country’s default

Chavez Seizes Oil Infrastructure

Pro-Chavez Web site Features Anti-Semitism

Unintelligent Design: Chavez and PDVSA

No more separation of Church and State in Venezuela

Venezuela’s oil industry
Skint: Expropriating accounts payable

Vargas Llosa: “Desde luego que en Venezuela expondré mis ideas”

Radical OPEC members cheat the most

Así, así, así es que se gobierna…

The week’s posts and podcasts
Brazil and China eye plan to axe dollar
Benedetti and the south
Guatemala: The Twitter arrest and the Rosenberg murder
“The rich are not human” and Globovision’s troubles: 15 Minutes on Latin America
Guatemala and the Rosenberg tape
Guatemala: The Rosenberg video
“No progress” at EU-Cuba meeting

At Real Clear World:
Guatemala: The strange case of Rodrigo Rosenberg

Tags: Antigua, Rodrigo Rosenberg

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