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May 3, 2010 By Fausta

The first Monday in May Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

LatinAmerWelcome to the Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean.

LATIN AMERICA

Chávez says that Cuba helps Venezuela defend itself from U.S., Colombian malice

ARGENTINA
Argentina’s Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo accuse journalists in mock trial

Antonini Wilson dice que era “vox pópuli” que el Gobierno argentino cobraba sobornos

BOLIVIA
Bolivia Takes Over More Firms

BRAZIL
Brazil’s Fraga Says Government Bailouts, Spending ‘Not Healthy’

Lula Tops Times List

What’s Good for Petrobras Proves Bad for Shareholders

CHILE
Carta destacada de la semana: Mapocho Navegable

COLOMBIA
Colombia’s presidential election
The maths of a Green revolution
Antanas Mockus is in many ways the opposite of Álvaro Uribe, the popular outgoing president. So why are the polls saying the upstart might replace him?

Economy, Not Security, Is Key Colombia Issue

Five Colombian troops killed in minefield

CUBA
Omar Gude Pérez, Cuban Political Prisoner of the Week, 5/2/10

What Cuba can teach us about health care

The brevity of the slogans

ECUADOR
Ecuador’s President ‘Freeing’ Central Bank Funds for Citizens

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa said he will seek to change the central bank’s accounting rules in a bid to free capital needed to invest in the country’s development.

The government is seeking to change accounting rules regulating how the bank reports its reserve funds, Correa said in his weekly televised address to the nation, broadcast today.

Ecuador, which has defaulted on $3.2 billion of international bonds since Correa took office in 2007, is trying to plug a budget deficit the Finance Ministry estimates will reach $4.2 billion this year. The president of the country’s private bank association, Cesar Robalino, said March 29 the government was using central bank reserves to finance spending.

Ecuador’s new constitution, approved in a 2008 referendum, stripped the central bank of its autonomy.

“Why does a central bank that doesn’t even have a national currency need $2 billion in capital,” asked Correa, a 47-year-old former economics professor. “We are freeing the funds for the benefit of the Ecuadorean people.”

Yeah, right.

GRENADA
Grenada labour minister proposes extended weekend, shift work

HONDURAS
Journalists Killed in Honduras: The Myths and the Truth

The egg assembly line

MEXICO
Mr. Calderon, Tear Down this Wall

Mexico Accused of Human Rights Abuses in Amnesty International Report

Border disorder

Mexican officials condemn Arizona’s tough new immigration law

Italian in Mexican ambush safe and sound
Gunmen kill two in attack on humanitarian convoy

Inside Mexico, Illegal Aliens Get No Breaks

NETHERLANDS ANTILLES
The Netherlands Antilles
The joy of six
Curaçao savours the prospect of autonomy

NICARAGUA
Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua
The show goes on
More blows against democracy

PANAMA
Police Seize 1.5 Tons of Weapons in Dolega, via Chiriquí Chatter

PUERTO RICO
Democrats ‘rigging’ Puerto Rico path to statehood?
House votes on option for island to become 51st state

US regulators seize three Puerto Rico banks

VENEZUELA
Deadly New Russian Weapon Hides In Shipping Container

A Russian company is marketing a devastating new cruise missile system which can be hidden inside a shipping container, giving any merchant vessel the capability to wipe out an aircraft carrier.

Potential customers for the formidable Club-K system include Kremlin allies Iran and Venezuela, say defense experts. They worry that countries could pass on the satellite-guided missiles, which are very hard to detect, to terrorist groups.

Oil-rich Venezuela gripped by economic crisis

Chávez Decaffeinates Venezuela
Coffee shortages predictably follow his price controls.

Housewives, bankers battle in Chavez militia

PRIMERO DE MAYO DESDE EL BARRIO (o “así se pudre un país…”)

PSUV: towards the Leninist model (with pictures)

Chávez, candanguero

While Venezuelan militia are trained to fire machine guns to the cry, “Kill the gringos,” Chávez asks Americans to wash their butts, again:

IMMIGRATION
AZTLAN ASTROTURF – MAY DAY MARCH in DENVER

“Our Gloria” Leads our Dear, DEAR “Latino brothers and sisters” in Los Angeles May Day March! (UPDATED)

HUMOR
Revisiting the Isla Presidencial:

(My apologies: the video starts automatically. You can watch it here)

The week’s posts and podcasts:
Great news from Colombia
VIDEO: Now Chavez wants Fidel and Evo to tweet, while Venezuela’s in ruins
Mexico’s illegal alien laws
Cuban blogger sentenced to prison: 15 Minutes on Latin America
Remember Noriega? He’s off to France
Cuba: Dania Virgen Garcia and the Ladies In White
Chavez as a security threat

At Real Clear World:
Chavez Tweets!

At Latineos:
Walking along Cortázar

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Comments

  1. Gringo says

    May 3, 2010 at 6:37 pm

    Re the Madres holding a mock trial in Buenos Aires. Haven’t they heard? The milicos stepped down nearly 30 years ago. Many high level milicos have been jailed.

    Perhaps the Madres should ask questions about the Montoneros who have worked in the Nestor and Evita III administrations,in rather high posts. If the Montoneros et al hadn’t done their bombing, killing, and kidnapping during a time of a democratically elected government, the milicos would never have taken over.

  2. Fausta says

    May 4, 2010 at 7:34 am

    Gringo,
    And don’t forget that Cristina and Ernesto are Montonero alumni.

  3. Gringo says

    May 4, 2010 at 9:43 pm

    Nestor has denied being one. If he didn’t inhale, he definitely had the cigarette in his hand. Leftist Peronista before 1976. OTOH, there were many flavors of that particular insane species. At times my take on it is that if he didn’t partake in the kidnappings et al, he knew people who did, whether or not he was formally a Montonero.

    But one argument against the above is that he is still alive. The milicos took whoever was in the address book of a captured terrorist, and proceeded to kill those who were in the address book. Or at least that is what I heard during the junta from someone who was not a leftist. If any of Nestor’s friends were doing dirty stuff, and got captured by the milicos, the milicos would have grabbed him off the address book.

    What I find repugnant about Nestor and Evita III is their refusal to acknowledge what I wrote about in the above comment: the milicos would never have assumed power were it not for the gross misbehaviors of the left.
    http://www.clarin.com/diario/2003/05/06/um/m-555412.htm

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