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October 12, 2009 By Fausta

The Columbus Day Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

Welcome to the Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean.

UPDATE
Carlos Alberto Montaner: Honduras Must Hold Firm on Zelaya

Politics is full of surprises. Roberto Micheletti, designated president of Honduras by that country’s parliament, wanted former President Manuel Zelaya to remain in jail in Tegucigalpa while judges and prosecutors formalized the judicial process against him for violation of the Constitution, corruption and misappropriation of public funds. Curiously, Hugo Chávez, Lula da Silva and Daniel Ortega have made that detention possible.

True, Zelaya is not in a Honduran jail but in the Brazilian Embassy in the capital, but that’s a lot more convenient for the government of Micheletti. It is unlikely that pro-Zelaya commandos will break into the Brazilian haven to try to rescue him, because he entered it of his own will and, in any case, the responsibility for Zelaya’s physical integrity is now in the hands of Brazil. The Honduran police need only guard the building’s exterior and control the comings and goings. At some point, Zelaya will decide to submit to his country’s justice, or maybe he’ll choose to spend a long time under asylum.

Meanwhile, President Micheletti, with remarkable firmness, says that he’s going ahead with the elections planned for Nov. 29. Shortly before Zelaya’s return, Panama declared that, if the upcoming Honduran elections are fair and transparent, it will recognize the new government. That’s the sensible thing to do. Fortunately, President Ricardo Martinelli is a brave statesman who doesn’t mind swimming against the current if it is morally justifiable to him.

LATIN AMERICA
The American journey
Columbus Day celebrates our ever-new beginning

“HITN, Latino and Categorizing”

George Shultz on the Drug War
The former secretary of state has long doubted the wisdom of interdiction.

Pot cartels busted

Commentary: How realistic is it for the Caribbean to join the G20?

Maya Disparage Apocalyptic Nutjobs, since 2012 isn’t the end of the world, Mayans insist

ARGENTINA
Obituary on Mercedes Sosa

BOLIVIA
Buenos días represión

INTO THE ABYSS: BOLIVIA UNDER EVO MORALES AND THE MAS

CHILE
Fiesta de las Bicicletas en el Forestal.

CUBA
Architecture of the emergency

Yoel Lázaro Carbonell Guilar, Cuban Political Prisoner of the Week, 10/11/09

Michael Moore proven a liar on national TV

The Accolades Keep Coming In… Castro Praises Obama’s Nobel Prize

Fidel Castro Lauds Obama’s Nobel Prize

GAO Report, Another U.S.-Cuba Policy Sideshow

Cuba’s economy: The demise of the free lunch
Near-bankruptcy is causing Cuba to jettison the Utopian paternalism of Che and Fidel. The future involves hard work for higher, but still-paltry, wages

Defector goes AWOL in Spain

ECUADOR
NY Times Plays Photo Tricks to Condemn Chevron in Ecuador Dispute

GUATEMALA
The entire country of Guatemala had an electric blackout yesterday due to a lightning strike. Didn’t take long for a crazy conspiracy theory to come up with a nutty explanation – Apagón en Guatemala fue causado por terroristas indígenas y un líder español

HONDURAS
What Micheletti really said to the OAS

Crisis in Honduras: What was really behind the removal of President Manuel Zelaya, and is he likely to be reinstated?

Conozca al padre Tamayo, el guía espiritual de Zelaya en la embajada de Brasil

Jim DeMint’s Report From Honduras–>Obama Is Wrong

The Honduras article Sen. Kerry (D, MA) didn’t want you to see.

Important news from Honduras

Release the Koh Memorandum on Honduras

Barack Fidel Che Obama, the Bolivarian Revolution’s useful idiot, reverses the Monroe Doctrine

MEXICO
Additional 300 miles of border fencing killed, via The Latin Americanist

NICARAGUA
DeMint vs Kerry on Honduras

PANAMA
Death Paperwork For Foreigners in David

PERU
The Mystery of Capital among the Indigenous People of the Amazon

VENEZUELA
The 2010 votes: legal cheating in a pro Chavez electoral system

So you want to know what Chavez’ economic plan is?

Off target

Muertos de sed o ahogados por la lluvia

Venezuelans got a reprieve from the endless cadenas yesterday when Chávez called in sick, Hoy no hubo Aló Presidente por un “quebranto de salud” de Hugo Chávez

Chávez: Obama no merece el Nobel Unlike Castro, Chavez says Obama doesn’t deserve the Nobel Prize.

Janissaries or Mercs?

IMMIGRATION
Workplace Immigration Raids Not a Cure-All
Experience shows that even though such crackdowns are necessary, they often cause more problems than they solve.

Special thanks to Ada, Bill, and Dick.

This week’s posts and podcasts
Argentina’s new media law: 15 Minutes on Latin America
The complicated Brazil Olympics
Argentina’s new law limits the media
Why won’t the Obama administration support the upcoming Honduran elections?
Lanny Davis proposes a new solution for Honduras
Honduras’s Micheletti blasts OAS
Chavez shouldn’t travel as much, and other headlines: 15 Minutes on Latin America
Hondurans start new talks
VIDEO: Venezuelan farm stolen by Chavez

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Comments

  1. safariman says

    October 12, 2009 at 11:26 am

    There is a link problem on your article Barack Obama …Reverses Monroe Doctrine!

  2. Fausta says

    October 12, 2009 at 11:48 am

    Sorry about that. Link corrected now.

  3. Gringo says

    October 12, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    Sorry to hear the news about Mercedes Sosa. How that woman could sing!

  4. Fausta says

    October 12, 2009 at 3:21 pm

    Yes, Mercedes was wonderful

  5. Pat Patterson says

    October 13, 2009 at 12:01 am

    It is amazing that almost twenty years after the fall of the Soviet Union examples of that type of architecture has migrated into areas that had strong architectural traditions but now seem intent of making every building look like a temporary office of the DMV. That photo looks exactly like the construction is saw before the Moscow Olympics and 1980 where at the last minute everything was swept, washed, painted and even new glass put in where none had been before. Except then they would post a militia man to keep the tourists from having plates of very thin glass fall off the building on top of the Mischa hats.

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