ARGENTINA
Argentina’s debt default
The noose tightens
I was in Buenos Aires the day Kirchner died, and the graffiti read, “Evita and Nestor, together in heaven”; Make room, Evita: Argentine leader seeks to put late husband Nestor Kirchner on Peron pedestal. The only surprising thing is that it’s taken Cristina two years.
BRAZIL
Brazil busts corruption ring
CHILE
Chile Faces Hurdles to Sustain Robust Economic Growth
COLOMBIA
Land reform in Colombia
Peace, land and bread
The hard bargaining start
FARC rebels release 4 Chinese oil workers
From Colombian evangelicals to Jews in region with a hidden Jewish past
CUBA
As predictable as a soiled diaper on a newborn baby
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
The Dominican Republic’s Taxing Turn
Servicing its debt will take 44% of government revenue by 2015, despite steep new taxes.
A rum do
The new president faces a tax revolt
HAITI
Haitian ex-soldiers in hiding renew call for president to restore disbanded military
MEXICO
Lame-duck lameness: Mexico’s President Calderon seeks to change country’s name
Profile: Felipe Calderon
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has sent a bill to congress to change the official name of the country.
Chinese-Mexicans expelled during xenophobic period celebrate anniversary of repatriation
1 of FBI’s 10 most wanted arrested in Mexico
NICARAGUA
Colombia awaits government´s San Andrés reaction (h/t Silvio Canto)
PANAMA
Angry Panama
The earthbound bite back
Why is Latin America’s fastest-growing country so furious?
PUERTO RICO
The 51st state?
America may not want what its Caribbean outpost now does
Ex-boxer Hector ‘Macho’ Camacho dies after shot
TURKS & CAICOS
The Turks and Caicos Islands
Paradise interrupted
A troubled Caribbean territory tries to turn over a new leaf
VENEZUELA
Breaking Bad? Venezuela National Guard finds buried stash of cash
Security forces in Venezuela have found $550,000 (£343,000) buried near the border with Colombia, interior ministry spokesman Jorge Galindo said.
The building up of a FARC/drug corridor in Venezuela
The week’s posts:
Venezuelan immigration to the USA quadrupled over the past 15 years
Argentina: Now on general strike
Mexico: No Iran or Hezbollah here
I was in Buenos Aires the day Kirchner died, and the graffiti read, “Evita and Nestor, together in heaven.”
Which is why I call Cristina Evita III. [Isabel Peron being Evita II.] [Would Juan Domingo’s first wife then be Evita 0? :)]