The week’s top headline is that authorities may have found the remains of the 43 student teachers missing since September. The state of decay of the remains makes it necessary that they will be sent to the University of Innsbruck in Austria, which officials said had the most advanced forensics laboratory, for further attempts at identification.
Violent protests and the social media hashtag #YaMeCansé are symptomatic of how Mexicans are fed up with their government’s inability to stop the drug cartels.
ARGENTINA
Factory Explosion Leaves 66 Injured in Argentine City of Cordoba
Argentine Journalist on Trial for Not Revealing Sources
BELIZE
S&P Switches to Positive on Belize Outlook
BOLIVIA
Concern in Bolivia Over Increase in Sexual Violence Vs. Girls
Brazil’s economy
After the election, the reckoning
CHILE
Former President Calls for Drug Decriminalization in Chile
COSTA RICA
Costa Rica struggles to manage $1.7 billion in development loans
CUBA
Hiding the Real Cuba
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
The Dominican Republic pulls out of Inter-American Court of Human Rights
PANAMA
After the Panama Canal Zone
PERU
Putin Welcomes Peruvian President
PUERTO RICO
Murder Rate Down; 2014 May Bring US Commonwealth Its Lowest Number of Homocides in 15 Years
VENEZUELA
Venezuela reaps benefits of Cuban “medical internationalism”
Dengue fever soars by 2,475% in Venezuela’s capital city
Idiocy And Airlines In Venezuela
Venezuela shows the biggest global drop in the 2014 Prosperity Index
The week’s posts and podcasts:
Mexico: Remains of #Ayotzinapa students found
He can have my Volvo for US$500,000
@Fausta Since when have "Arab Sheikhs" been so in love with old Marxist wankers?
— ¡No Pasarán! (@nopasa) November 7, 2014
Brazil: A petition to the White House
Mexico: 22,000 missing, 43 of them are the #Ayotzinapa students
Venezuela: $15 smugglers jailed, $3.08 billion a year smugglers go free
At Da Tech Guy Blog:
Why Obama should not be impeached when he grants executive amnesty
Comparing voting in NJ to voting in FL
Podcasts:
Election night extravaganza
US-Latin America issues with Fausta Rodriguez Wertz & Michael Prada