The week’s headlines in a sentence: While the Supreme Court ruled on Obamacare subsidies and gay marriage, the deadline for the Iran negotiations looms and terrorists are blowing up people and pipelines all over the place.
The location of the judge is rather interesting: Argentine judge orders seizure of Falklands drillers’ assets
Lilian Herraez, a federal judge in Tierra del Fuego, ordered the seizure of $156 million in bank accounts, boats and other property, the government said on Saturday.
BOLIVIA
Pope sends video-message to Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay. The guy can’t stay away from socialist throwaway terminology:
“I want to be a witness of this joy of the Gospel and bring to you the tenderness and caress of God, our Father, especially to your children most in need, to the elderly, the sick, the imprisoned, the poor, to those who are victims of this throwaway culture,” he said.
CHILE
Chile’s Bachelet Hits New Low Approval Rating
FARC rebels kill four and rupture Colombian pipeline
CUBA
Cardinal SinsA Castro cleric brings disgrace.
Top Intelligence-Defense Lawmakers Introduce Cuban Military Transparency Act
Double surprise! Cruz and Rubio are “non-whites”!
State Dept: No Change in Iran, Cuba Human Rights, Despite Obama Overtures
HONDURAS
Thousands march in Honduras to demand resignation of president
Thousands of angry, torch-bearing Hondurans marched on Friday to call for the resignation of President Juan Hernandez and demand an independent probe into one of the worst corruption scandals in the country’s history.
JAMAICA
PM: Jamaica’s Economic, Industrial Climate In ‘Delicate Situation’
LATIN AMERICA
Interesting premise, but premature, Move over, China: Latin America may welcome India. The operative word is may.
HARDBALL: DONALD TRUMP BLASTS JORGE RAMOS’S CELL PHONE NUMBER TO 200,000 INSTAGRAM FOLLOWERS
PANAMA
Odebrecht Wins Contract to Renovate Panamanian City of Colon
PUERTO RICO
The perfect Summer portrait, A Sleeper Awakened With Color
Frederic Leighton’s “Flaming June” is on loan to the Frick Collection in New York for the next three months.
URUGUAY
‘Gourmet cannabis’: Take a peek inside a Uruguay marijuana club , if you must. To paraphrase Dean Wormer, “fat, stoned and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
VENEZUELA
MUD, the Sausage Fest
Gay marriage, at long last (but not here)
The week’s posts and podcast:
Colombia: FARC blows up oil pipeline
Bloody Friday: France, Tunisia, Kuwait terror attacks UPDATED
Morgenthau on the Iran-terror connection
Ecuador: Demonstrations against Correa
SCOTUS upholds Obamacare subsidies
The other flag controversy: US Embassy in London flies the rainbow flag
Today’s WTH moment: Venezuelan vet arrested for smuggling heroin in puppies UPDATED
Mexico: EL GRAN HERMANO del cartel TE VIGILA
Venezuela: Next stop on the Obama administration’s “normalizing” with dictators?
Podcast: The flag controversy plus US-Latin America stories of the week