ANTIGUA
Stanford Sentenced to 110 Years in Prison for Ponzi Scheme
ARGENTINA
Peso Blues
The shows highlight Argentine veterans’ difficult postwar adjustment process. A repressive military government mobilized the veterans, often conscripts from working-class backgrounds, for Argentina’s 1982 invasion of the islands in a last-ditch bid to rally popular support. Argentina’s leadership hadn’t expected the British to dispatch its own invasion force to retake the islands. Argentine troops were left underequipped and with only an improvised plan to confront the professional U.K. army.
Britain warns Argentina over Falklands “aggression”
COSTA RICA
Princeton U goes on the road: Lacrosse Team from American Ivy League School Visits Costa Rica
CUBA
Sen. Bob Menendez regarding the arrest of Cuban pro-democracy leader
GUATEMALA
The gringo was Russian, The Fish That Ate the Whale:
The Life and Times of America’s Banana King, via American Digest.
ECUADOR
ALBA attacks justice, human rights
The referendum will be organised by the Falkland Islands government and will take place in the first half of next year.
The NYTimes magazine has a must-read report, Cocaine Incorporated (h/t AD), with a yowza,
In 2007, Mexican authorities raided the home of Zhenli Ye Gon, a Chinese-Mexican businessman who is believed to have supplied meth-precursor chemicals to the cartel, and discovered $206 million, the largest cash seizure in history. And that was the money Zhenli held onto — he was an inveterate gambler, who once blew so much cash in Las Vegas that one of the casinos presented him, in consolation, with a Rolls-Royce. “How much money do you have to lose in the casino for them to give you a Rolls-Royce?” Tony Placido, the D.E.A. intelligence official, asked. (The astonishing answer, in Zhenli’s case, is $72 million at a single casino in a single year.)
Go read every word.
NICARAGUA
Venezuela buys 12.56% of Nicaragua exports
Nicaragua’s global exports have increased by 11% in 2012
VENEZUELA
Venezuela court decisions shake up 2 small parties
The TEA Party and the GOP can learn a thing or two from Venezuela.
Venezuelans consider the unthinkable: a government without Chavez
VIRGIN ISLANDS
“A sunny place for shady people”, Sideways.
The week’s posts:
Chavez’s Iranian drones
