The Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

LATIN AMERICA
Connecting the dots: Internal developments in Latin America & regional security

Military Spending in Latin America, 2009

Secretary Clinton’s Upcoming Travels to Latin America and Barbados

CARIBBEAN
Green passport no longer accepted for intra-regional travel

ARGENTINA
Argentines Engage in a Labor of Love on a Railroad to Nowhere
Volunteers Fight Weeds, Wasps and Highways in Hopes a Train Will Come Back, Someday

Turkish PM Cancels Visit to Argentina

Argentina Boudou: Debt Swap Advancing As Expected

China, Argentina Said Unable to Reach Deal on Soy Oil

Trade Balancing

BOLIVIA
Bolivian Indians Who Killed Cops Seek License to Smuggle

BRAZIL
Hillary: Brazil Growing Like Crazy

Hillary’s revealing tax gaffe

Brazil Election to Slow Investment, Real Forecast Cut

Ahmadinejad’s Sugar Daddy
How Brazilian ethanol could help Iran outwit American sanctions.

Rousseff, Serra Tied in Run for Brazil Presidency, Poll Shows

CHILE
Lo mejor de flickr en plataforma urbana

COLOMBIA
Bid for Green-Left Alliance Fails in Colombia

Colombia sticks with Santos
Buoyed by the party machine and rural voters, a win for Juan Manuel Santos means an uphill battle for Antanas Mockus

Colombians Opt For Strong U.S. Ties

CUBA
37 arrested in Cuba crackdown
Two major Cuban dissident groups have been raided in Havana in the past two days and 37 members were arrested, group leaders said.

Dylan, but sanctioned by the deadly regime: Cuba’s ’Dylan’ Plays Carnegie Hall as U.S. Boost Cultural Trade

Cuban singer Silvio Rodriguez last played New York City in February 1979, when Jimmy Carter was president and the Cold War defined international politics.

Romanticizing Misery

Long embraces

Atención Venezuela: lo que se prohibe en Cuba

Diosdado González Marrero, Cuban Political Prisoner of the Week, 6/6/10 (UPDATED x2)

ECUADOR
Ecuador plans to curb Cubans’ resort to fraudulent marriages to obtain citizenship

GUATEMALA
Geologists baffled by what to do with giant Guatemala sinkhole
Scientists say filling the giant Guatemala sinkhole isn’t as simple as just dumping in gravel and dirt. First, geologists have to understand the conditions that caused it.

GUYANA
QUIEBRAN EMPRESAS DEL ALUMINIO EN GUAYANA: OTRO IMPRESIONANTE LOGRO DE LA REVOLUCIÓN

HONDURAS
Honduras is in a state of emergency

Honduras Trying to Attract Foreign Investment is Good, but, What About Honduran Investment?

JAMAICA
Jamaican Suspect Eludes Capture
Security Forces Search for Alleged Drug Lord on Fourth Day of Violence

Jamaica’s national security ministry says 35 bodies identified so far

PANAMA
Clave Card Advisory

PERU
Peru Frees Radical Marxist From Prison

PUERTO RICO
Stealth task force on Puerto Rican statehood moving bill forward

URUGUAY
Alberto Breccia trafico de influencia

VENEZUELA

VIDAS QUE NO FUERON COLGANDO DE UN CABLE, DE PEREZ I A CHAVEZ III

Chavismo Meets the Market

So what else is new? Filmmaker Oliver Stone admires Hugo Chavez
Oliver Stone and his fight against terrorists

Venezuela creates agency to control and classify information

Another one for the annals of Chavista idiocy

If the 60,000 Tons of rotten food is so little, how come there is hunger and malnutrition in Venezuela?

The week’s posts and podcasts:
Mexico’s Zeta drug cartel plotted to blow up Falcon Dam
Mexico’s re-organized crime: 15 Minutes on Latin America
Van der Sloot arrested in Chile
Chile hunts Holloway suspect over Peru killing VIDEO and podcast
The new drug route: Liberia?
Sunk in Guatemala
Chavez backs Mexican leftist guerillas