The “back to the Falklands” Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

Welcome to the Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The big story of the week, and probably the stupidest, is Argentina’s renewed claims to the Falklands, which they call Malvinas. Obviously Cristina needs to create a distraction.

LATIN AMERICA
Insulza debe abandonar la OEA

ARGENTINA
Argentina and the Falklands
Oil and troubled waters: Drilling a vein of nationalism

Argentina Seeks Backing in Falklands Dispute

Something fishy going on at Penguin News
Argentinian hackers hijack the website of Falklands newspaper

British cruise ship tests Argentine blockade in Falklands
As the war of words between Argentina and Britain continues, it’s business as usual for the cruise ships naviagating the South Atlantic waters.

UN DIARIO INGLES AGREDIO A LA PRESIDENTA CRISTINA FERNANDEZ

BRAZIL
Lula’s party endorses presidential pick Dilma Rousseff

CHILE
A hope for economic freedom in Latin America

Bachelet excluyó a Vargas Llosa de acto cultural tras apoyo a Piñera

COLOMBIA
Detienen en Venezuela a capo colombiano reclamado por la Interpol

CUBA
Cuban doctors sue Venezuela and Cuba for “modern slavery”

Political prisoners ask Lula to intercede

Love is patient, love is kind…

Orlando Zapata Tamayo, Cuban Political Prisoner of the Week, 2/21/10

GPS

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
The Dominican Republic and Haiti
Helping a neighbour in need: A break in a history of mistrust

ECUADOR
¡Que se quede en Cuba!

Ecuador says Iran ties landed it on laundering list

HAITI
Commission starts preparing plans for Haiti’s rebirth

Haiti a month on
Tarpaulin cities: Shelter is now the pressing need

HONDURAS
Honduras ha detectado que mayoría de vuelos de narcos parten de Venezuela

MEXICO
Mexico’s murder capital
A “dying” city protests: It may have come late, but the president’s emergency plan to save the country’s fifth-biggest city from carnage and crime looks promising

VENEZUELA

Peasant Militias in the “peaceful” revolution of Hugo Chavez

El hip hop antichávez

Chavismo inner trouble might be major than expected: rats abandoning ships or democracy revival?

The week’s posts and podcasts
Meanwhile, in Madrid
Mexican black tar heroin in the heartland
@Juanes tweets #Chavez

And from the past, TANGO
2003 Interview with Robert Duvall on his movie, Assassination Tango, in Spanish, La obsesión de Duvall llega al cine
“Assassination Tango”, filmada en Buenos Aires, se estrenará mañana
Robert Duvall y Luciana Pedraza hablan de la película