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June 1, 2009 By Fausta

The cash crunch Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

Welcome to the Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Many important news in the region this week, including a new agreement on nuclear development between Cuba and Russia, new ties between Iran and Paraguay, and Chavez’s cash crunch. Scroll down for all these, and more.

LATIN AMERICA
Ahmadinejad defends presence in US backyard

A Time of Reckoning for the Poor

Drug gangs in Canada: British Columbia or Colombia?
Organised crime brings fear to Vancouver’s streets

ARGENTINA
Argentina’s farming in crisis: Parched earth, empty barns
Don’t get mad, get organised, battered farmers conclude

BOLIVIA
Bolivia Confirms Plans to Explore for Uranium

Evo Morales, The Mugabe of the Andes?

BRAZIL
‘Homophobic’ Christian TV on the outs in Brazil?

CHILE
What Norway and Chile can teach America

Chile’s coming presidential election: Winds of change
The Concertación is disconcerted

COLOMBIA
Insulza opina que el conflicto en Colombia debería negociarse

CUBA
A Look at Cuba Before Its Destruction By the Castro Regime (Video)

How to help the internet revolution in Cuba.

Judge awards $1 billion to man in suit against against Fidel Castro, Che Guevara

Over 100 leaders ask he U.N. to not reelect the island to the Human Rights Council

Veggies rot in sun; inept pickup blamed

Russia praises Cuba for atomic research

ECUADOR
Iran May Inherit U.S.-Taxpayer Built Military Facility in South America

Via Astute Bloggers, ‘No Good Deed Goes Unpunished’ (Part 1 of 2)

Ecuador Pays 35 Cents for Defaulted Bonds in Buyback

Ecuador saves $252 million swapping oil for products with Venezuela

Ecuador’s Correa says AT&T, Sprint, MCI owe fees

GUATEMALA
Insanity in Guatemala: Rosenberg case

MEXICOMexican trains, trucks hijacked in new crime wave

New rules to impact U.S.-Mexico border

Mexico’s deep recession: Not made here
It is little consolation to Mexicans that the slump is not their fault this time

PANAMA
Panama Canal Expansion Under Way

PARAGUAY
Iran: Tehran looking to strengthen ties with Paraguay

PUERTO RICO
In Puerto Rico, Supreme Court Pick With Island Roots Becomes a Superstar

VENEZUELA
Chávez’s Cash Crunch
Will Uncle Ben and the Fed help him out?

Chavez: Venezuela could leave OAS, join Cuba

Independent Institute Fellow Victim of Chavez’s Abuses

RELIAL Celebrates its Annual 4th Congress in Caracas

13 signals of cessation of democracy in Venezuela

Embajador critica la imagen que da diario francés de Venezuela Here is the original article, Venezuela : la fuite en avant d’Hugo Chavez, par Jean-Pierre Langellier, and Daniel’s post Paris: Le Monde blasts Chavez

BlackBerry Nation

Venezuela’s missile purchases could go to FARC

Missile buildup in Venezuela has U.S. on edge
Venezuela’s recent weapons-buying binge has stoked U.S. fears that portable missile launchers could end up in the hands of Colombia’s FARC rebels.

This week’s posts and podcasts:
Chávez chickens out
More Alvaro in Venezuela
Today’s podcast at 11AM Eastern: Mario Vargas Llosa detained at Caracas airport
Mario Vargas Llosa detained at Caracas airport
Andres Velasco’s plan: Save for a rainy day
Álvaro detained
Brazil arrests high ranking al-Qaeda spy

At Real Clear World:
Venezuela: Chávez’s Persecution, and No Debate
Israel: Venezuela and Bolivia Providing Iran with Uranium

Special thanks to Ada, the Baron, Eneas and Maggie.

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  1. Pat Patterson says

    June 1, 2009 at 7:25 pm

    I think this is the same bar, as shown above, in the 1959 movie Our Man in Havana. Looking a little worse for the wear some 20 years later. The bar scene is at around 7:20 into the video.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upc9FVdIXqs

    My dad was a midshipman in 1938 and his summer cruise consisted of a hammock in the USS Minnesota as part of a small flotilla that visited most of the major ports in the Caribbean. He told me years later that Cuba looked just like San Diego and was clean and exciting. By 1991 when I went to Havana for the Pan American Games it was dirty, dreary and looked just like East Berlin but with a much better climate.

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