The Argentinian government produced its first drug: a generic version of Viagra. Good thing no one in Argentina needs aspirin.
ARGENTINA
Argentina: revés para el neopopulismo
Indigenous peoples in Argentina: “We are strangers in our own country”
BOLIVIA
A report on the Mennonite colony of Manitoba, Bolivia: THE GHOST RAPES OF BOLIVIA
THE PERPETRATORS WERE CAUGHT, BUT THE CRIMES CONTINUE
CHILE
Endesa Chile Appeals Ruling Against Thermoelectric Project
COLOMBIA:
Talking to Colombian Guerrillas Doesn’t Make You Popular
3 years with Colombia`s President Juan Manuel Santos
HONDURAS
Attorney Who Revealed Death Threats Murdered in Honduras
LATIN AMERICA
Opinión: 101 años de Milton Friedman y su legado para la libertad del mundo de hoy
PANAMA
U.N. probes Cuban arms shipment bound for N. Korea
36 Hours in Panama City, Panama
PARAGUAY
Paraguay Rebuffs Mercosur’s Rapprochement
PUERTO RICO:
Puerto Rico Utility Pays a Premium to Borrow
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority Sold $673.1 Million in Bonds
VENEZUELA:
Corruption in Venezuela
The billion-dollar fraud
Evidence of huge rip-offs at the heart of the “Bolivarian revolution” has unleashed political infighting, Unsurprisingly,
Claims of corruption involve some of the most senior figures in Mr Chávez’s “Bolivarian revolution” (named for Simón Bolívar, Venezuela’s independence hero). In an audio tape leaked in May, Mario Silva, a presenter on state television and (it now appears) a Cuban agent, enumerated to his handler the sources of illicit finance he said were available to Diosdado Cabello, speaker of parliament and leader of the ruling socialist party, who is a potential rival to Mr Maduro. They included the tax authority, headed by Mr Cabello’s brother, and Cadivi. Mr Cabello dismissed the audio tape as a fake, the public prosecutor has yet to investigate and Mr Silva lost his job.
Instead, Mr Cabello has gone after the opposition.
Apotheosis of Chavez proclaimed by Maduro: Christ became incarnate in Hugo
A heavy fine for El Nacional to attack freedom of expression
The week’s posts and podcast:
Argentina: Free (homemade) Viagra
Venezuela: Supreme court dismisses the Capriles election appeal
Cuba: 100 political arrests in 5 days
Mexico: Pemex to allow foreign investment?
Cuba: The Russia, Iran, & North Korea trifecta
The search for a natural aphrodisiac is as old as humanity with limited success. Viagra, whether ‘homemade’ of laboratory made, has really changed the rules of the game. At last, something that really works!