Today’s Carnival is dedicated to the Argentina Renault 4 Motor Club, which granted Pope Francis a lifetime membership, for his fondness for the “roadrunners”, as the fans call their little cars.
Over in Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro fell off his bike. The clueless anchorwoman went on reading the scripted propaganda as if nothing had happened. She probably didn’t even have a livefeed for the event, demonstrating it’s all about the narrative,
For more serious news,
BELIZE
See the Cathedral of Human Sacrifices in the Cave of the Crystal Maiden
CHILE
David and Daniel (h/t American Digest)
Forty years after the coup and the IACHR
COLOMBIA
Colombia Implements Hotel Guest Immigration Tracking Program
The US Embassy tweeted on its campaign to save endangered species,
#EEUU promueve una campaña más intensa para detener el tráfico de especies amenazadas por la caza ilegal http://t.co/VPLXTsvYFR
— US Embassy Bogota (@USEmbassyBogota) September 12, 2013
CUBA
Makes you wonder what kinds of strings Vlad attached to his $800 million offer: Concrete Crypt for Communist Dreams: Cuba’s Unfinished Nuclear Power Plant
Lacking nuclear fuel and without the primary components installed, the plant sat in limbo until December 2000, when Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a visit to Cuba. Putin offered Fidel Castro a belated $800 million to finish the first reactor. Despite Cuba’s reliance on imported oil for power, Castro declined. Project status: officially abandoned.
Amnesty International calls on Castro Kingdom to free Ivan Fernandez Depestre
GUATEMALA
Guatemalan bar attack leaves 11 people dead
HONDURAS
Honduras, A Bottomless Pit
MEXICO
Mexico captures third man linked to killing of U.S. border agent
MEXICAN SMUGGLER’S WILD RIDE: DRAGGED PASSENGER, RAMMED BORDER PATROL, CRASHED IN DITCH
NICARAGUA
Territorial disputes
A sea of troubles
NOTHING brings together domestic foes like an external enemy. So when President Juan Manuel Santos announced that Colombia would not heed a ruling last November by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague that granted 70,000 sq km (27,000 square miles) of the Caribbean Sea that Colombians have considered their own since 1928 to Nicaragua, even his harshest critics applauded.
PERU
Drug labs on Brazil-Peru border targeted in joint operation
PUERTO RICO
Analysis: Puerto Rico’s population drops as economy wobbles
The 4.9 million Puerto Ricans living in the continental United States as of 2011 outnumbered those on the island by more than 1 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
VENEZUELA
“New Conferry” Chronicles (Corrected)
Venezuela: From crazy to insane
The week’s posts and podcast:
Argentina: Pope Francis, Renault 4 Club’s lifetime member
En español: El primer podcast de HACER
New book: Latin America in the Post-Chávez Era: The Security Threat to the United States
Colombia: Alvaro Uribe at the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Argentina: SCOTUS to hear defaulted bonds case
Mexico: #EstamosHartosCNTE Fed up with the teachers’ union
Mexico: Bloomberg wants “sugary drinks” taxed
Venezuela: Can Chavismo last long?
Mexico: How the teachers’ union became so unpopular
Podcast:
Syria and Latin America reaction