ARGENTINA
Buenos Aires va a las urnas con alta probabilidad de reeditar duelo de 2007
CHILE
Knight News Challenge winner Poderopedia aims to map power in Chile (Interview with Miguel Paz)
COLOMBIA
Security in Colombia
Never-ending
The FARC is not finished yet
CUBA
Travel to the ‘Authentic’ Cuba!
Cuba and Venezuela Both Face Succession Challenge
GUATEMALA
Gunmen kill folk singer Facundo Cabral in Guatemala
HONDURAS
The ultimate hypocrisy
Honduran Truth and Reconciliation Commission Issues Ruling
MEXICO
LulzSec doc drop: Arizona Officials Say Hezbollah Operating in Mexico
Fighting in Michoacán, Attacks on Hotels
State elections in Mexico
A hat trick for the PRI
PERU
Obama Meets Peru’s Incoming President
The White House said Obama dropped by Wednesday while the incoming Peruvian leader was meeting with U.S. National Security Advisor Tom Donilon.
Natural resources in Peru
The trials of miners
Romantic outsiders see in the events in Puno an uprising by Aymara-speaking Indians against multinationals. But the truth looks much uglier. The towns around Lake Titicaca are at the centre of a huge contraband trade. The protesters are silent about large-scale informal gold mining, which pollutes rivers far more than formal mines. In Puno’s lowlands, cocaine production is rising. Some locals say that the protests are a rebellion inspired by the leaders of illegal businesses against the rule of law.
Visit to Russia by brother of Peru’s Humala results in controversy
PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rican scholar Ricardo Alegria dies at 90
The week’s posts,
Gunwalker in 1 equation
Fast and Furious from stimulus money?
The Invisible Hugo & the worst of both worlds
