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The third Monday in February Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

LatinAmerWelcome to the Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean.

ARGENTINA
Argentine Suit Says Falklands Role Bars Barclays From Debt Swap

La lideresa exasperante

BOLIVIA
If you can’t blind them with brilliance, baffle them with bullsh**t: Evo Morales says “Our grandfathers fought against the English empire and the Roman empire, too,


Bolivia: Una decepción silenciada

BRAZIL
Heatwave roasts Rio, kills 32 in southern Brazil

I guess we should all move to Rio today!

Olympians To Indigenous: Where’s Your Country?

Brazil’s recovering economy
Joining in the carnival spirit: The government will be less abstemious than it claims

CHILE
Piñera to back Insulza for OAS chair. And what else did you expect?

COSTA RICA
Costa Rica’s new president
Thriller for Chinchilla: Another woman president

CUBA
Rolando Pérez Oro, Cuban Political Prisoner of the Week, 2/14/10

Castro Catches Useful Idiot Celebs on Candid Camera

The instant creation of emerging teachers

COSTA RICA
Costa Rica elects first woman president, inspiring the region
Laura Chinchilla won Costa Rica’s presidential election in a landslide victory Sunday that is eliciting cheers from women across Central America.

ECUADOR
Gigantesca marcha cívica en Guayaquil
Nebot: Guayaquil le ha dado una “patada cívica” a Correa


Salvaguardias, crecimiento economico y desempleo

Ecuador’s Version of the Tea Party Movement?

HONDURAS
Mel Zelaya never disappoints

MEXICO
THE HEROIN ROAD
A lethal business model targets Middle America
Sugar cane farmers from a tiny Mexican county use savvy marketing and low prices to push black-tar heroin in the United States.

Interactive: Black-tar heroin

JOURNAL: Open Source Networks and Heroin

Black-Tar Heroin: A Glimpse of California Before Decriminalization

NICARAGUA
El Gran Gobierno, práctica común del sandinismo en Nicaragua

PERU
The general’s gesture

Starbucks, Kraft help Peru coffee sales

Peru’s flood-hit tourism
Ruined: Making do without Machu Picchu

PUERTO RICO
Industrial windfarm development in Puerto Rican IBA rejected by government

VENEZUELA
Venezuela and Cuba
“Venecuba”, a single nation: Hugo Chávez, as he drafts in ever more Cuban aides to shore up his regime, is fulfilling a longstanding dream of Fidel Castro’s

Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez Follows a Well-Trodden Path

Oil in the Orinoco Flow
Autopsia de una cadena

Silly things I heard recently that matter to Venezuela
A Cuban vampire in Caracas

The electricity mess of Chavez for dummies

Venezuela: HRF condemns media crackdown and relaunches its campaign for press freedom in Venezuela

En video: Revela que “vamos a hacer nuestra energía nuclear” y se solidariza con Ahmadineyad

Hugo Chavez’s Year of Living Dangerously

The week’s posts and podcasts:
Brazil next?
Chavez and the “terrorist” Twitter: 15 Minutes on Latin America
Today’s headlines: 15 Minutes on Latin America

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Comments

  3. So Morales spilled the beans and revealed that Bolivians were descendents of the Carthaginians and the Boers.

  4. Zelaya should have been jailed for the crimes he committed. This is the problem with Latin America- coupsters and gangsters walk free on political deals or amnesty. Look at Chavez! Criminals should be punished and until the rule of law is enforced from top to bottom, nothing will change. It took the US military to arrest Noreiga. Why not Panamanians?