Welcome to the Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean. This week’s big stories: Cuba and the OAS, the Air France plane crash in Brazil, and the violence in Peru.
CARIBBEAN
Commentary: Regional Integration or Caribbean Catastrophe?
LATIN AMERICA
Dupes
Latin America’s Progress
What the global financial crisis has demonstrated.
Quotable quotes from OAS conference
Via Protein wisdom, Plying the Pacific, Subs Surface as Key Tool of Drug Cartels
The Russians, Arabs, Drug Cartels and our Southern Border
Video: The amamzing dancing bird
ARGENTINA
Argentinian team searching for oil near the Falklands Equipo argentino buscará petróleo cerca de Islas Malvinas
La inspección se llevará a cabo en los límites acuíferos entre Argentina y las islas británicas, los trabajos iniciarán antes de 2010
Argentina: Mario Vargas Llosa afirma “Elegir al peronismo es elegir el error”
Kirchner se diferencia de Chávez: “Cada país tiene su propio modelo”
BRAZIL
Air France flight victims bodies reportedly found
CHILE
¿Quién pagará por Transantiago?
COLOMBIA
Entrevista a Alvaro Uribe Velez
CUBA
Cuba insists it will NOT return to OAS
Latin America’s Brave New World: Cuba gets a vote of confidence from the OAS.
I have heard this story before
Castro questions timing of Cuban spy arrests
Obama Administration Needs to Re-assess Approach to Cuba in Light of Spy Arrests
Retired U.S. State Official, Wife Indicted on Charges of Spying for Cuba
Quotas of beans, peas, salt are reduced
ECUADOR
Militares y socialismo
GUATEMALA
Guatemala: The Next Mexico
MEXICO
Mexican nursery fire kills 40 children
Shootout kills 16 in Mexico’s Acapulco resort
NICARAGUA
Diputado sandinista justifica uso de “fuerzas de choque” oficiales
PANAMA
Comfort in the Canal
PERU
Fatal Clashes Erupt in Peru at Roadblock
Via Prairie Pundit, Suspicions link Chavez to Peru revolt
Amazon activists aim to thwart energy decrees
Peru Struggles to Defuse Amazon Violence With 50 Dead
Officers buried, Indian protests continue in Peru
Up to 100 dead in Amazon clashes: activist
Peru: controversial death toll on Bagua’s clashes
Search on for missing Peru police
At least 30 dead in Peruvian protests
Peru’s worst nightmare: Ollanta Humala
PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico Readies $3.5B Sales Tax Deal. Officials look for bigger retail role.
VENEZUELA
Venezuela, Sad and Surreal
An electoral Sunday in Caracas
Venezuela Chavez says “Comrade” Obama more left-wing
“Nos fueramos quedao con las contratistas”
Chavez backed away from debate with intellectual opponents
Spiked: Hugo Chavez Jokes With GM Nationalized, ‘Comrade Obama’ Makes Castro Look Conservative
A peek into the oxymoronic economic models of XXIst. Century Socialism
This week’s posts and podcasts:
Venezuela to launch its own Blackberry
Retired U.S. State Official, Wife Indicted on Charges of Spying for Cuba
Reading Sotomayor’s thesis
Today’s podcast at 11AM Eastern: Cuba in the OAS
Cuba back in the OAS
Congressman Connie Mac on Chavez and Iran
Al Qaeda eyes bio attack from Mexico
Hugo gets a tummyache… and missiles
Hot dog diplomacy: El Salvador, Iran’s next buddy?
Brazilian Air Force find debris of Air France plane
The end of the batatita?
