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November 26, 2007 By Fausta

Today’s Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean


Last week’s top story:
Not as strident as all the Venezuelan news, but very important, Four killed in Bolivia clashes over new constitution

A Bolivian protester died early on Monday after being injured in clashes with police over the weekend, local officials said, raising the death toll to four from violent confrontations over a new draft constitution.

Jose Luis Cardozo “died in the early hours on Monday,” said Fidel Herrera, the head of the municipal council of Sucre, and one of the protest leaders.

Cardozo suffered serious injuries on Saturday as thousands of demonstrators demanded their southeastern city of Sucre be named the capital of Bolivia and protested pro-government delegates approving a new constitution.

The protests took a violent turn on Saturday evening when another demonstrator, a 29-year-old lawyer, died of a gunshot wound. Police later used tear gas to quell the protests.

Two other people, a police officer and a third protester, were also killed in the street violence and dozens were injured.

The Bolivarian Revolution’s not quite going as planned in Bolivia.

Bolivian protesters free prisoners

SUCRE, Bolivia (Reuters) – Demonstrators opposed to efforts by Bolivian President Evo Morales to overhaul the constitution on Sunday torched police stations and stormed a jail, freeing 100 inmates, while on the streets protesters clashed with police and one officer was killed.

The protests in the southern city of Sucre came hours after pro-government allies in a constitutional assembly approved a preliminary draft late on Saturday of the new constitution, a key Morales political project.

Morales, a leftist and Bolivia’s first Indian president, says the new constitution will give the country’s indigenous majority more political power.

But the vote was boycotted by the rightist opposition, which has heavily criticized the assembly.

On the streets of Sucre, protesters stood face to face with police officers, setting fires to tires as tear-gas rained down on them.

They also set fire to Sucre’s San Roque prison, starting a prison riot that saw at least 100 inmates escape, local media said.

In other Bolivian news, Bolivia’s Gas Nationalization: Opportunity and Challenges

Spanish-language website of the week:
RELIAL Red Liberal de America Latina

Don’t miss HACER’s roster of Latin American blogs and the Wall Street Journal in Spanish.

SOUTH AMERICA:
Crisis in the Americas

Terrorist In The Neighborhood

As fears mount, experts debate terrorist inroads in Latin America (registration required)

Don’t like your constitution? Then rewrite it
In Latin America, revisions can renew a nation’s pride – or exploit its people

CHILE
I want my two dollars

COLOMBIA
Media Myths About Free Trade Cause Many To Forget Benefits

Notes from a Reader in South America, Ambassador Gherbasi

Betancourt’s husband asks Chavez to keep mediating

Uribe and Chavez trade insults as Venezuela freezes ties

Uribe: Chavez wants a Marxist FARC government in Colombia

Further adventures in Bolivarian diplomacy

CUBA
Is there a doctor in the Gulag?

Around the Block for Some Cafe … (roundup)

Jeff Jacoby: Writing the truth about Cuba

ECUADOR:
I Marched with the Terrorists: Chevron-Texaco sued again in the Amazon

Ecuador’s Correa wins control of constituent assembly, official results show

Unofficial Vote Count Confirms Correa Victory

VENEZUELAN-ECUADOREAN-IRANIAN AXIS ON THE MOVE

IMMIGRATION
Estados Unidos, Admision Gratis

MEXICO
U.S. Anti-Drug Plan Would Recast Legal System in Mexico

From Mexico but posting on the Brooklyn madrassa, War of Ideas on the Homefront

PANAMA
Panama November Rains Leave Jamaica Mission Team Stranded

PERU
Victims of Ica Held a Peaceful Strike During Friday’s Riot

Violently Treated Women in Peru March for Their Rights

You tax money at work: UN declares 2008 as ‘International Year of the Potato’ (IYP)

PUERTO RICO
Pageant officials investigate who put pepper spray on Miss Puerto Rico Universe’s gowns

VENEZUELA
The referendum on the extensive rewrite of the Constitution is scheduled for December 2.

Who are the students of the Venezuelan opposition?

This Ain’t Hell has a roundup of referendum articles and posts.

Read the item-by-item analysis of the constitutional reforms at the Venezuela’s Constitutional Reform website.

To vote or not to Vote? Venezuela at the crossroad or all the doors will open Chavez’s reform

Venezuela’s path to self-destruction
Voters are on the verge of handing President Hugo Chavez the power to turn their country into a dictatorship

Vi a Maria A comeback for communism

Do Wealthy Liberal Democracies Fail?

Chavez Loses Lead; Declares Opponents Traitors

Only The Sith Deal In Absolutes

Center for Security Policy‘s articles on Venezuela via CVF
(In Spanish)
Countdown to Tyranny I
Countdown to Tyranny II
Countdown to Tyranny III
Countdown to Tyranny IV

Article 98: Patents and the decline of innovation in Venezuela

Other Venezuela-related posts:
Yes, we have no milk in Venezuela

“Do you want me to pee on you?”

Chavez budgets $250 million for ‘alternative’ groups
Venezuela’s proposed budget includes more than $250 million for ‘anti-imperialist’ groups in the United States and Latin America.

Colombians fire Hugo

Video: Unhinged in Venezuela
Breakdown

Excusing Chavez and Defending The Indefensible
Voting in Tyranny
Loving Chavez
Excusing Chavez

Chavez under fire

James Petras, Gunslinger

Clown Conference, Tehran, November 19, 2007

HUGO CHAVEZ VS. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

Stalin Vs. Chavez

“I hope so, too.”

Hugo and ‘Jad, talking currency

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Special thanks to Maggie, Eneas Biglione, Larwyn, and Maria.

Linking to the Carnival:
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Comments

  1. FeathersMcGraw says

    November 26, 2007 at 8:03 pm

    Thanks Fausta for the link. Regards,
    -f

  2. Julia_1984 says

    November 26, 2007 at 8:50 pm

    thanks for the link!

  3. Kate says

    November 27, 2007 at 1:30 am

    Great round-up, Fausta. As always, thanks for the link!

  4. GM Roper says

    November 27, 2007 at 2:29 am

    Fausta, great roundup and you’ve provided me with enough reading material to last till NEXT Monday’s carnival. I’m working on a spoof of Hugo so maybe I’ll have it finished for the next carnival.

    Cheers and damn what a fine job you’ve done here!

  5. newton says

    November 27, 2007 at 2:51 am

    Now, why would someone, for the life of anybody, pepper-spray a pageant’s gown?

    I’ve never seen anything like that… wait… When my husband was a midshipman, someone sprayed ammonia on my husband’s underwear at his dorm room.

    Malice: that’s the name of the game.

  6. FeathersMcGraw says

    November 27, 2007 at 6:12 pm

    Fausta, btw, couldn´t find the code to post on your carnival map of latin america to put it on my blog.

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