In today’s news, the US Embassy in Caracas is closed due to threats, according to El Universa (h/t Vlad). The nature of the threats was not specified.
While the world’s attention is focused on the Middle East, here are several of the news stories in our hemisphere this week,
CENTRAL AMERICA
Central America, crime, and what the Americas are doing about it
ARGENTINA
Argentine Wheat Exports May Fall to Lowest in Almost 30 Years
ARUBA
Following up on a story from a few years ago, Stanford Judged Incompetent to Stand Trial
BRAZIL
Business in Brazil
Top whack
Big country, big pay cheques
CHILE
Copper Law
COLOMBIA
Colombia economy: Post-flood emergency mode
CUBA
Italian Parliament commits to the freedom of Cuba’s political prisoners
On those New OFAC regulations on Cuba travel released
The interesting thing here is that when originally reported it appeared that remitters would not be able to send more than $500 to Cuba per quarter. It now seems, however, that U.S. citizens can send $2,000 a year to as many qualified Cubans as they like. I’m not a lawyer and I received this information too late to call OFAC, so I can’t say for certain.
Cuba political prisoner Guido Sigler responds with defiance to Castro’s blackmail
EL SALVADOR
Obama’s heading to El Salvador in March. Obama and El Salvador
If there is one thing all media outlets can agree on, it is that they have no idea why President Obama is going to El Salvador.
Salvadoreños al tanto de la visita de Obama antes de su discurso
HONDURAS
Update on Liz
PANAMA
What is economic freedom?
S. Korea to get FTA but not Panama
PERU
State Department says relations with Peru “never been this strong”
PUERTO RICO
Back when I was a student at the University of Puerto Rico, the students were protesting. No change on that front,
VENEZUELA
LOS VENEZOLANOS QUEREMOS SER UN PUEBLO PROPIETARIO, NO UN PUEBLO EXPROPIADO…
How a bully Dictator like Hugo Chavez runs Venezuela
How people in Taiwan see Hugo,
Venezuela tells foreign oil firms to keep output at 3.1 mn bpd
Investing in Venezuela’s Future
English language chavismo in the web on the decline
The week’s posts,
Chavez says Egpyt embassy briefly taken over by protestors
Muslim cleric catapults to fame by crossing the border
Catapult over the border!
Tanks for Hugo, bankrupt states, the Supremes, and the roundup
