Yes. It’s summer in the northern hemisphere. Deal with it.
ARGENTINA
Audio slideshow: The Welsh in Patagonia, 150 years on
Los presos ahora ganan 46% más que un jubilado
BOLIVIA
Bolivia Ready to Renew Ties with Chile to Resolve Maritime Claim, at least until the next time.
BRAZIL
Good luck with that: Rio’s favelas to accommodate visitors to 2016 Olympics
CHILE
Chile’s Pinochet covered up report on death of U.S. student, documents say
COLOMBIA
Colombia’s Ecopetrol to Export 1st-Ever Cargo of Crude to Japan in August
El Monótono Dialogo De Paz En Colombia, ¿Qué Intenciones Tiene?
Cuba Emerges as Paradise for Gay Tourism
Secretive White House meeting reveals Obama’s plan to visit Cuba in 2016
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Cabarete: Dominican Resort Is a Refuge Twice AbandonedHaitians, who had brought new life to an abandoned seaside hotel, face ejection under new laws and conflict with their island neighbors.
ECUADOR
Scraping the barrel
Will Ecuador turn into Latin America’s Greece?
EL SALVADOR
Salvadoran Government Deploys Armored Cars to Support Police against Gangs
JAMAICA
Was the PetroCaribe buyback a good deal for Jamaica?
LATIN AMERICA
Latinoamérica, ¿Para Qué Utilizan Los Gobiernos Socialistas La Ley?
MEXICO
Annals of ExcavationUnderworldHow the Sinaloa drug cartel digs its tunnels.
‘FEMINICIDE,’ MEXICO ISSUES ALERT FOR SPIKE IN VIOLENT CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN
A Transformation in Mexican Migration to the United States, Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire – 27 July 2015 (H/T Mexidata)
PANAMA
Supreme Court ruling allows work to resume on Panama’s 29-MW Barro Blanco hydropower project
Watch: Panama Canal July Update (h/t JC),
PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico to miss debt payment, signalling default
URUGUAY
Here’s why a historic meat packing plant in Uruguay was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site
VENEZUELA
Ciudad Guayana: Venezuela supermarket looting leaves one dead, dozens detained
Caracazo en Gotas: San Felix Edition
Mega-Gangs the New Plague in VenezuelaOrganized Crime Takes Root in Neglected Slums
Meanwhile, back in Caracastan: Maduro steals foreign-owned property
Venezuela Runs Out of Birth Control
Maduro takes over brewers complex as Venezuela runs out of beer because of lack of barley
The week’s posts and podcast:
Chile: Eat your rock before it gets cold
Argentina: Cristina tweets Iran
Answers: Where can women go, instead of Planned Parenthood?
Peru: Shining Path’s shameful prisoner camps
En español: @OLPL visita Bayly
New Jersey: It’s the taxes, stupid.
Argentina: Tokyo Rose does the Falklands?
Venezuela: Leopoldo Lopez still in jail, FP fails
As expected: WH finishing up latest plan for closing Guantánamo
PODCAST
A word about Che merchandise plus US-Latin America this week