The Festivus Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

Welcome to the Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean. If you would like your posts included in next week’s Carnival please email me, faustaw2 “at” gmail “dot” com.

The Festivus theme comes from Seinfeld, of course, and I explain it in my Real Clear World post. In that spirit, here’s the Carnival,

LATIN AMERICA
DEA: Law Enforcement Efforts Pushing Mexican Drug Cartels into Central America
Drug Enforcement Administration officials said there are growing signs the stepped-up law enforcement efforts on the U.S.-Mexico border are driving the cartels south toward Central America.

Presidentes del Alba firman acuerdo para materializar moneda común

The Obama weakness offensive

Why American leadership still matters

Americas Summit: Missed Opportunity

Obama Proves Stupid is as Stupid Does

ARGENTINA
Che, the Musical

BOLIVIA
Bolivia’s Evo Morales: Fasting and dealing.
A presidential hunger strike

A Plot to Kill Bolivia’s Leftist President?

BRAZIL
Conexão Irã-Venezuela ameaça América Latina

Brazil and climate change
Dancing with the bear: A soya king’s change of heart on the rainforest

The Crafty Superpower

COLOMBIA
The Bubbles Shrink

Obama might meet with Uribe

From Medellin, Hopeful Signs For A Free-Trade Pact

CUBA
Via Babalu, Capitol Hill Cubans, who list 50 Reasons Against Lifting Sanctions Towards Cuba’s Regime

Castro Complains; Cubans Suffer As Usual

Cuba: Words and deeds matter

Now Open Cuba’s Prisons: The Obama opening does little for Castro’s political prisoners.

Keep the embargo, O

Thawing with Havana

White House Embraces Opening for Talks With Cuba: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says the administration was struck by Raul Castro’s statement about Cuba potentially being “wrong” about avoiding talks with the U.S.

It takes two to rumba: Raúl Castro’s reaction to a small American olive branch may be even more cautious than Barack Obama’s offering of it

Don’t expect big changes soon on U.S. Cuba policy

ECUADOR
Chávez le da vida a nueva moneda “Sucre” y Ecuador apoya su creación
Será “virtual” para el comercio subregional

Ecuador to Give Details of Plan for Defaulted Debt

Debt Proposal By Solvent Ecuador May Well Spawn Lawsuits

MEXICO
Counting Mexico’s guns

Barack Obama way wrong on U.S. guns in Mexico–FactCheck.org

Drug control breeds gun control

Obama, the Mexican guns, and Latin America: blame the US first

PARAGUAY
Definitely not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy

PUERTO RICO
Transportation Worker Identification enforcement begins in USVI and Puerto Rico

VENEZUELA
Chavez’s Banco del Tesoro is not much of a treasure

A Gauleiter first day on the job: Farias takes over Caracas

Chavez: Let’s host the Sixth Summit in Havana

“HAMPONATO DE ESTADO” ARREMETE CONTRA LOS MÁS POBRES

Hugo and Barack: Two sides of the same coin

Note to the Apologizer-in-Chief: No, a Republic Is Not Equal to a Dictatorship

Chavez, upon returning from the Summit of the Americas, reviews Venezuela’s new anti-aerial weaponry received from Russia (Video #1), and proclaims the Summit “one of Venezuela’s greatest victories” (Video 2) , all to the Cuban Communist salute, “Homeland, socialism or death, we shall win!”

Video 1

Video 2

IMMIGRATION
Obama to Potential Illegals: Arrive Now, Get Legalized Later

kausfiles, the Golden, Assaultive Years!

Bring it on!

LANGUAGE
The Spanish Tutorial Blog asked to be included in this Carnival, too.

UPDATE
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