The Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

ARGENTINA
Argentina Deputy Commerce Secretary Found Dead

As Argentina Seizes Newsprint, Press Freedom Suffers

Cristina prepares to defy gravity
The president begins her second term facing an economic slowdown. She will meet it with a mixture of rhetoric, controls and austerity

Ash From Chilean Volcano Craters Argentine Towns
Unpredictable Eruptions Leave a Pristine Patagonian Region Bereft of Its Tourism Lifeblood; Planes Grounded 7,200 Miles Away

BRAZIL
Brazil Police Seek to Indict Chevron, Transocean Staff

Mystery Of Amazonian Tribe’s Head Shapes Solved, via GoV.

COLOMBIA
Rescuers End Search for Colombian Blast Survivors

CUBA
American Not in Cuban Prisoner Amnesty

60 Minutes Fails to Note Why Invasive Lionfish Dominate Cuban Coral Reef

Political arrests on rise in Castro´s Cuba

GUATEMALA
Journalists who denounced human rights abuses in Guatemalan civil war accused of participating in kidnapping, torture

LATIN AMERICA
THE MEANING AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN CARIBBEAN SUMMIT

Iranian Regime TV Beamed in the Americas

Headquartered in Madrid, Spain, Hispasat claims it reaches 15 million homes in Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean. In addition to this new Iranian line-up, they also carry programming for another state sponsor of terror, Cuba. Cuba Vision Internacional (CVI), one of Cuba’s propaganda arms of the Cuban Communist party, is broadcast via Hispasat systems.

Intelsat is a owned by a several private equity firms including one based in Chicago, Illinois. They have several offices in the United States, including one large office right here in Washington, DC.

Iran and S. Arabia launch 2 tv channels in Spanish, via MEXICO
MEXICAN EX-OFFICIALS WORK FOR US INTELLIGENCE

“Underwater” Santa Claus a Hit in Mexico

PUERTO RICO
US-based Excelerate to develop liquid natural gas port off Puerto Rico

VENEZUELA
Venezuela, Iran Linked to Alleged Cyberattack Plot

The Region: Obama preaches, dictators sneer