Post details: Fausta’s Carnival of Latin America
Glentico Renaldo, indeed!
The Seventh Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
Welcome to the seventh Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean. If you would like to send me your posts on the region, please email me at faustaw “at” yahoo “dot” com by Sunday night.
The week’s financial news is that Latin America Leaders Set to Inaugurate Chavez’s Bank of South. Equally as important (and possibly more important), the US Senate passed the free trade agreement with Peru. IBD asks, Peru Is In, Now Where’s Colombia?
This week’s video:
Mary Anastasia O’Grady discussing what took place on referendum day in Venezuela.
This week’s Spanish language website:
Carlos Alberto Montaner‘s website, which is also available in English.
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Montaner and his wife last week at the Globalization and the aRise of the Left in Latin America, and will be posting more on the conference later this week.
ARGENTINA
Episcopal fold loses 1st diocese – in valley
the diocese, which operates out of offices in Fresno, will report to the Most Rev. Gregory James Venables, presiding bishop of the Southern Cone and of Argentina, in his office in Buenos Aires.
BAHAMAS
Why would we want to be American?
BOLIVIA
Trouble in Bolivia
Anti-Chavez Protesters Stone Venezuelan Plane in Bolivia
BRAZIL
Sex, sleaze, and taxes
CHILE
Venezuela 2007 is Chile 1988
CUBA
Update: Catalanist Convergencia party travels to Cuba in support of the Ladies in White, and promptly get rounded up by the police, detained, and are waiting for extradition.
Action Alert Campaign for Cuban Youths.
Dual-language post at Spanish Pundit Cuba celebrates International Human Rights Day by jailing dissidents. Don’t miss also today’s coverage of BUCL’s International Human Rights Day initiative in support of Cuban dissidents: go to Babalu, scroll down and follow the links.
ECUADOR
Correa puts the military in charge of PetroEcuador
Cuba’s Correa and Chavez Suffer Embarrassment of Fraud in Caracas
I predict that Correa will slowly start distancing himself from Hugo.
MEXICO
Higher education in Mexico: A doctor takes charge
NICARAGUA
Autocracy begins to rear its ugly head
Kate is doing an excellent job of covering Nicaragua and Latin America – her blog is a must-read.
PERU
Fujimori trial under way in Peru
Peru may become Latin America’s next success story.
PUERTO RICO
Coming home
VENEZUELA
Updated: Chavez tried rigging the referendum vote; Attempted Theft
Hugo Chávez tried to overturn the results of Venezuela’s recent vote but was rebuffed by the military.
Via Sara, The beginning of the end for Hugo Chavez. This strikes me as overly optimistic.
In Spanish: La verdadera historia de la derrota de Chavez
By far, the most asinine article by a movie star this year: Piano Wire Puppeteers: The Constitution, Media & Dennis Kucinich
Mature socialism and societal decay
Baduel alerta sobre ”golpe de Estado” de los chapistas
Baduel volvió a pedir al electorado opositor que, una vez derrotada la propuesta en referendo, ahora debe movilizarse por una Asamblea Nacional Constituyente, porque una vez que ”se conquista un objetivo, no es tiempo de desmovilizarse, ni tiempo de echarse a dormir. ¡Es tiempo de consolidar el objetivo!”, exclamó.
Una Asamblea Constituyente permitirá, dijo, salir ”al paso” a quienes ”quieren perpetrar el arrebatón que se intentó” con un supuesto desconocimiento de Chávez al resultado del domingo pasado, en alusión al referendo en el que ganó el ”no” a la reforma de Chávez, con una relación de 51 votos a 49.
Venezuela’s Lame-Duck Dictator
On democracies, dead and dying
HACER‘s Venezuelan referendum page.
Una Venezuela nueva espera por nosotros.
More articles at HACER.
HUMOR: [language warning]
Via Miguel, a loose translation with all the bad words you’ll ever need in Spanish.
BLOGGING ABOUT THE CARNIVAL
GM’s Corner
Obi’s Sister
A colombo-americana’s perspective
Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean: The post-Venezuelan-referendum edition
With Hugo in the headlines again, the Carnival goes on.
If you have a chance, please listen to last night’s 1/2hr podcast on the Venezuelan referendum.
SPANISH LANGUAGE BLOG OF THE WEEK:
Basta de apartheid en Cuba
POSTS ON LATIN AMERICA IN GENERAL;
How to enjoy traveling abroad
Venezuela: A Political Storm Rages Over the Andes
MS-13 Creeps Into Canada: Documentary videos at LiveLeak.
Hugo and Raul, Chew on This … OohRah!
ARGENTINA
Really intact Dinosaur found
ARUBA:
Brothers in Holloway case walk away from jails — again
COLOMBIA
Force, Not Talk
Proof of FARC captives’ survival
Is S. America a terrorist incubator?
CUBA
“His family in Puerto Rico had to send him the medicine”
Bloggers United for Cuban Liberty
Media: Cuba is a Demcracy, Right?
ECUADOR
Ecuador’s Correa’s communist freak show in Montecristi
JAMAICA
This is not news
MARTINIQUE:
Tremor in Martinique
NICARAGUA
Nica news for Nov 27
PANAMA
Thinking about Santa and Panama
PUERTO RICO
Beauty queen ‘wasn’t pepper sprayed’
VENEZUELA:
The Limits of 21st-Century Socialism
Via Human Rights Foundation,
Caracas Nine:
HRF Seeks Protection for Leader of Student Movement in Venezuela; Yon Goicoechea is “Caracas Nine” Dissident #2
Here are a few links to recent posts on Venezuela:
On Election Eve, Chavez Ally Turns Against Him
US Senator Carl Levin Rejects Chavez Allegations of Interference
Venezuela Loses Its Mind – And Its Freedom!
Chavez cuts ties to Columbia, Threatens to expel US Diplomat
The Left Begins Venezuelan Black (DGI/DISIP-driven) Op
Chavez’s Ex Apologizes for His Government
Is Chavez Hurt by His Incessant Insults?
Hugo Chavez: The Musharaff of South America
Hugo Chavez’s Most Dangerous Enemy? It’s Chavez Himself
Hugo Chavez and his Allies are State Sponsors of Terror
Al-Jazeera’s Mariana Sanchez reporting from Venezuela finds discontent among Chavez’s base:
BLOGGING ON THE CARNIVAL:
A colombo-americana’s perspective
ECrisis
Prior posts and roundups from the last 7 days:
Hugo’s meltdown, at IBD
Wednesday: Countdown to Tyranny
Thursday: Today’s Countdown to Tyranny
The “Blame the CIA Game” is back!
Friday: Countdown to Tyranny: Last-minute Chavista Propaganda Offensive
Countdown to Tyranny: The day before the vote
Election day roundup
Today’s Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
Last week’s top story:
Not as strident as all the Venezuelan news, but very important, Four killed in Bolivia clashes over new constitution
A Bolivian protester died early on Monday after being injured in clashes with police over the weekend, local officials said, raising the death toll to four from violent confrontations over a new draft constitution.
Jose Luis Cardozo “died in the early hours on Monday,” said Fidel Herrera, the head of the municipal council of Sucre, and one of the protest leaders.
Cardozo suffered serious injuries on Saturday as thousands of demonstrators demanded their southeastern city of Sucre be named the capital of Bolivia and protested pro-government delegates approving a new constitution.
The protests took a violent turn on Saturday evening when another demonstrator, a 29-year-old lawyer, died of a gunshot wound. Police later used tear gas to quell the protests.
Two other people, a police officer and a third protester, were also killed in the street violence and dozens were injured.
The Bolivarian Revolution’s not quite going as planned in Bolivia.
Bolivian protesters free prisoners
SUCRE, Bolivia (Reuters) – Demonstrators opposed to efforts by Bolivian President Evo Morales to overhaul the constitution on Sunday torched police stations and stormed a jail, freeing 100 inmates, while on the streets protesters clashed with police and one officer was killed.
The protests in the southern city of Sucre came hours after pro-government allies in a constitutional assembly approved a preliminary draft late on Saturday of the new constitution, a key Morales political project.
Morales, a leftist and Bolivia’s first Indian president, says the new constitution will give the country’s indigenous majority more political power.
But the vote was boycotted by the rightist opposition, which has heavily criticized the assembly.
On the streets of Sucre, protesters stood face to face with police officers, setting fires to tires as tear-gas rained down on them.
They also set fire to Sucre’s San Roque prison, starting a prison riot that saw at least 100 inmates escape, local media said.
In other Bolivian news, Bolivia’s Gas Nationalization: Opportunity and Challenges
Spanish-language website of the week:
RELIAL Red Liberal de America Latina
Don’t miss HACER’s roster of Latin American blogs and the Wall Street Journal in Spanish.
SOUTH AMERICA:
Crisis in the Americas
As fears mount, experts debate terrorist inroads in Latin America (registration required)
COLOMBIA
Media Myths About Free Trade Cause Many To Forget Benefits
Notes from a Reader in South America, Ambassador Gherbasi
Betancourt’s husband asks Chavez to keep mediating
Uribe and Chavez trade insults as Venezuela freezes ties
Uribe: Chavez wants a Marxist FARC government in Colombia
Further adventures in Bolivarian diplomacy
CUBA
Is there a doctor in the Gulag?
Around the Block for Some Cafe … (roundup)
Jeff Jacoby: Writing the truth about Cuba
ECUADOR:
I Marched with the Terrorists: Chevron-Texaco sued again in the Amazon
Ecuador’s Correa wins control of constituent assembly, official results show
Unofficial Vote Count Confirms Correa Victory
VENEZUELAN-ECUADOREAN-IRANIAN AXIS ON THE MOVE
IMMIGRATION
Estados Unidos, Admision Gratis
MEXICO
U.S. Anti-Drug Plan Would Recast Legal System in Mexico
From Mexico but posting on the Brooklyn madrassa, War of Ideas on the Homefront
PANAMA
Panama November Rains Leave Jamaica Mission Team Stranded
PERU
Victims of Ica Held a Peaceful Strike During Friday’s Riot
Violently Treated Women in Peru March for Their Rights
You tax money at work: UN declares 2008 as ‘International Year of the Potato’ (IYP)
PUERTO RICO
Pageant officials investigate who put pepper spray on Miss Puerto Rico Universe’s gowns
VENEZUELA
The referendum on the extensive rewrite of the Constitution is scheduled for December 2.
Who are the students of the Venezuelan opposition?
This Ain’t Hell has a roundup of referendum articles and posts.
Read the item-by-item analysis of the constitutional reforms at the Venezuela’s Constitutional Reform website.
To vote or not to Vote? Venezuela at the crossroad or all the doors will open Chavez’s reform
Vi a Maria A comeback for communism
Do Wealthy Liberal Democracies Fail?
Chavez Loses Lead; Declares Opponents Traitors
Only The Sith Deal In Absolutes
Center for Security Policy‘s articles on Venezuela via CVF
(In Spanish)
Countdown to Tyranny I
Countdown to Tyranny II
Countdown to Tyranny III
Countdown to Tyranny IV
Article 98: Patents and the decline of innovation in Venezuela
Other Venezuela-related posts:
Yes, we have no milk in Venezuela
“Do you want me to pee on you?”
Video: Unhinged in Venezuela
Breakdown
Excusing Chavez and Defending The Indefensible
Voting in Tyranny
Loving Chavez
Excusing Chavez
Clown Conference, Tehran, November 19, 2007
HUGO CHAVEZ VS. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Hugo and ‘Jad, talking currency
Special thanks to Maggie, Eneas Biglione, Larwyn, and Maria.
Linking to the Carnival:
A Colombo-americana’s perspective
Pajamas Media
The Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean "Por Que No Te Callas" Edition
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As usual, Chavez manages to suck off all the air when it comes to Latin American news.
The “Por que no te callas?” fallout continues. While the story went mostly ignored here in the USA, it was the story of the week in Latin America and parts of the USA: there’s even a ringtone:
The king’s on the phone, and he says: ‘shut up!’
To give an idea of how much attention the king’s five-word outburst has received, consider the numbers on YouTube.com. Three YouTube postings with the exchange have been viewed almost 800,000 times.
By comparison, the first part of the YouTube/CNN Democratic debate received about 73,000 hits, according to YouTube.
Happy to oblige, here’s the You Tube explaining the event:
But I prefer the Juan Carlos as Leonidas:
Via GM Roper, the cartoon
Distraction tactics in Venezuela
The Hilarity: ‘Tis Overwhelming
Plenty of You Tube to go around.
First it was King Juan Carlos; Now it’s King Abdullah‘s turn. Is this the beginning of a trend? More Governments seem ready to join the King of Spain in telling Chavez to shut up.
Spanish-language link of the week:
Via Kate, El comandante y el Rey: La salida de Juan Carlos I, tras las interrupciones e insultos de Hugo Chavez, tuvo la virtud de rasgar el velo de hipocresía que rodea las Cumbres Iberoamericanas
Also don’t forget to visit The Wall Street Journal in Spanish.
In other Venezuelan news,
The referendum on the Constitution is scheduled for December 3. Here’s what Chavez wants to do and what will really happen
Chavez’s radical push spurs military dissent
Chavez’s proposal to change the name of the National Guard to that of Territorial Guard, and reassign its members to other security forces, triggered a wave of discontent in mid-August. Corporals in the 40,000-strong Guard complained that the change amounted to the Guard being eliminated — and Chávez was forced to backtrack.
Hugo Chavez: Students forced masked soldiers to shoot them.
Students Emerge as a Leading Force Against Chavez
Hugo Chavez Certifiably Insane
Venezuela scrambles for food despite oil boom
Via Siggy, who calls it “journalistic fraud and deceit re: South America”, If Hugo Chavez is a dictator, then so are Brown and Sarkozy
Sean Penn: Hugo Chavez Is ‘Much More Positive’ for Venezuela Than Negative
Among the inbound luggage there might be the odd flying carpet bought by the more outlandish visitor to Tehran’s Grand Bazaar. But Venezuela’s main international airport is buzzing with rumors that the “ghost plane” comes and goes laden with artifacts that would make a TSA official throw a fit: automatic weapons, electronic gadgets, and suspect lead crates.
UPDATE:
Jackson Diehl of the Washington Post is exactly right (emphasis added):
For the past week, the press of the Spanish-speaking world has been abuzz about a verbal slapdown of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez by King Juan Carlos of Spain. Incensed by Chavez’s ceaseless insults and interruptions during an Ibero-American summit meeting in Chile, the normally temperate Juan Carlos turned to Latin America’s self-styled “Bolivarian” revolutionary and blurted: “Why don’t you shut up?”
The story might have lasted a day, while everyone chuckled over something that, as one Spanish newspaper put it, “should have been said a long time ago.” That it has lasted a week is the work of Chavez. He called a news conference last Monday in which he recounted the history of Spanish colonialism and compared himself to a persecuted Jesus Christ. He held another news conference Wednesday to announce that he was reviewing all ties between Venezuela and Spain. He demanded a royal apology. He even coined his own phrase: “Mr. King, I will not shut up.”
Crude and clownish, si, but also disturbingly effective. Borrowing the tried-and-true tactics of his mentor Fidel Castro, Chavez has found another way to energize his political base: by portraying himself as at war with foreign colonialists and imperialists. Even better, he has distracted the attention of the international press — or at least the fraction of it that bothers to cover Venezuela — from the real story in his country at a critical moment.
In 13 days, abetted by intimidation and overt violence that has included the gunning down of student protesters, Chavez will become the presumptive president-for-life of a new autocracy, created by a massive revision of his own constitution. Venezuela will join Cuba as one of two formally “socialist” nations in the Western hemisphere. This “revolution” will be ratified by a Dec. 2 referendum that Chavez fully expects to win despite multiple polls showing that only about a third of Venezuelans support it. Many people will abstain from voting rather than risk the retaliation of a regime that has systematically persecuted those who turned out against Chavez in the past.
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If you’re thinking you haven’t heard much about this transformation in a major oil-producing country two hours by air from Miami, you’re right. U.S. media and human rights groups have basically ignored Chavez’s latest power grab. Human Rights Watch, which has been conducting a campaign about what it says is the “human rights crisis” in neighboring, democratic Colombia in close cooperation with congressional Democrats, has issued no statement on the Venezuelan violence — including the shooting of the students by government-backed paramilitaries on Nov. 7 — and objected to only one of the 69 new constitutional articles.The Bush administration seems to have abandoned any effort to influence events in Caracas, hamstrung by Chavez’s use of “the empire” as a foil. Worst of all, Latin America’s own democratic leaders, who rallied in the 1990s against a less-ambitious attempt by right-wing Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori to install an autocracy, have largely been silent. Unlike Chavez, Fujimori didn’t have petrodollars with which to subsidize his neighbors’ fuel or buy their debt bonds; Chavez has spent billions on both. The summit of Spanish-speaking countries would have been entirely harmonious had not Chavez himself deliberately provoked Juan Carlos. The king missed his cue; rather than addressing Chavez, he should have asked the assembled heads of state: “Why don’t you speak up?”
Bravo!
ELSWHERE IN LATIN AMERICA:
Posts on SOUTH AMERICA in general
Brrrr… South America Has Coldest Winter in 90 Years
ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, PARAGUAY (Tri-border area)
In Paraguay, Piracy Bleeds U.S. Profits, Aids Terrorists
BOLIVIA
Hugo’s having trouble exporting his Bolivarian Revolution,
Revolution postponed: A popular president deadlocked by a determined opposition
U.S. to Bolivians: Stop attacking ambassador
CHILE
After the Caudillo
7.7 Quake Shakes Northern Chile
CUBA
Cuban farmers reject Venezuela-Cuba confederation
Reality in Cuba: “El Concierto”, “The Concert”
A roundup of Anti-Fidel “International” Blogs
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:
Dominican Government Calls for Censorship of HRF Film on Human Trafficking
HONDURAS:
The latest phone company wiretapping scandal.
Ancient Americans had chocolate alcohol
ECUADOR:
CHAVEZ AND IRAN BUY PAL CORREA: CORREA EASILY BOUGHT TO STAND UNITED FOR NUCLEAR ANDES
MEXICO
The U.S. and Mexico: Taking the “Merida Initiative” Against Narco-Terror
GUERRILLAS IN THE MIST:
In a Modernizing Mexico, Blasts Reveal Shadowy Side
You must be a legal resident to get a driver’s license in Mexico
NICARAGUA
A Colombo-americana’s perspective has a huge roundup links on the subject of Venezuela’s influence in Nicaragua
PANAMA
Kucinich Protests Army Training School
PERU
The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
4,000-Year-Old Temple, Mural Found in Peru
Education and Peru: The Work of Tapurisunchis
PUERTO RICO
Adios: Pharma Retreats From Puerto Rico
Pet massacres carried out in Puerto Rico
URUGUAY
Another day, another country: Uruguay
Special thanks to Eneas Biglione of HACER
Would you like to send a link to next week’s Carnival on Monday November 19? Email me your links to: faustaw “at” yahoo “dot” com.
BLOGGING about the Carnival:
A Colombo-Americana’s Perspective
Cubanology
Gateway Pundit
Obi’s Sister
The Third Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
This week’s big Latin American news is that the King of Spain told Chavez to shut up during the XVII Latin American Summit in Chile.
Mind you, the King not only told him to shut up, King Juan Carlos told him in the most in-you-face disrespectful way. Thank you, your majesty.
Bloggers from all over are posting about it:
King Juan Carlos has Chutzpah: Entire Diplomatic Corps Needs Some to Undo Jabba-like Take Over
Spain’s King Tells Chavez to Shut Up
The King and Chavez: Chavez reaching the deep end
Not one to stop when having dug himself into a hole, now Chavez Accuses King of Coup Knowledge
Red Liberal has a selection of Spanish bloggers posting on the story.
More at Spanish Pundit
THIS WEEK’S SPANISH-LANGUAGE BLOG:
Via Kate, this week’s Spanish language blog Resistencia Universitaria
Also in Spanish, WSJ Americas
SOUTH AMERICA: general articles:
Sources: Feds Target Hezbollah Cell in L.A
Via Beth, The Arab Invasion of South America
HACER commemorates World Freedom Day
ARGENTINA-BOLIVIA-CUBA
(In Spanish) El mito del cadaver del Che Guevara (The myth of Che Guevara’s corpse)
ARGENTINA
Don’t Cheer for Cristina, Argentina
BRAZIL
Via Siggy, Brazil discovers huge oil reserves
Bad news for Hugo?
Others blogging on this:
Bad Debt
Gateway Pundit
Gustavo Coronel
Memeorandum
Protein Wisdom
Venezuela News and Views
Weekly Standard
Major Anti-piracy Street Raids In Brazil
COLOMBIA:
Colombian president angered by Sen. Clinton’s opposition to free trade accord (h/t Instapundit)
CUBA:
Useless nothings: UN praises Cuba’s ability to feed people
Abortion and Oscar Elias Biscet; Un sueño cubano
MEXICO:
‘I Wish My American Friends Who Fret About Mexican Immigrants Could Be Here with Me…’
NICARAGUA
The recent missteps of Danielito in Chile
TRINIDAD
Trinidad must be stopped
VENEZUELA:
A Caracas Musharraf
Diamonds, Guns And Dirty Money
Useless Idiots, A Century Later
Gunmen fire on Venezuela protest
Would you like to send a link to next week’s Carnival on Monday November 19? Email me: faustaw “at” yahoo “dot” com
Others posting about it
A colombo-americana’s journey
Heading Right podcast
Obi’s Sister
The second Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
Welcome! This week’s posts on Latin America and the Caribbean are:
On Latin America in general:
Wealth and Nations, via Dr Sanity
SOS: Truth Telling Deeply Needed for Latin America (link now corrected)
ARGENTINA:
Via Eneas of the Hispanic American Center for Economic Research, Corruption in Argentinian election – 28-October-2007
Via Siggy, Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina: Jewish community welcomes new president, who has taken a strong position against terrorism and the Dirty War.
BOLIVIA:
Learning English through avatars
CUBA
Poster relates Che’s dark side
“The Victims of Che Guevera” poster, produced by the Young America’s Foundation, centers on a collage that uses tiny photos of those killed by Cuba’s communist regime to compose the face of the Marxist guerrilla, who has become a popular T-shirt icon.
Via Larwyn, WaPo Writer Waxes Poetic for Castro Regime Control Mechanism
Son: [Oscar Elias] Biscet is “an inspiration”; The unyielding ones
ECUADOR
The Vatican Denounces Chavez-Correa anti-Freedom Constitutional Epidemic
HAITI
Again… UN Troops Involved In Another Child Sex Scandal
MEXICO
Chucha Libre
NICARAGUA
Nica news for Nov 2
VENEZUELA
Venezuela’s Constitutional Reform continues the item-by-item review
The New York Times Does PDVSA: The Perils of Petrocracy
EXPOSING THE CHAVEZ NIGHTMARE IN LATIN AMERICA
Troops Attack Venezuelan Protesters – Again
Venezuela Congress OKs ending Chavez term limits; Via Larwyn, Venezuela Circling the Drain
OTHERS LINKING THE CARNIVAL:
A colombo-americana’s perspective
Babalu
Dr. Sanity
ECrisis
Heading to Retirement
The Washington Times
The first CARNIVAL OF LATIN AMERICA and the CARIBBEAN
Welcome to the first Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Today’s top Latin American news is that Argentina’s first lady, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, is now its president.
Here’s the BBC video report
The campaign has been colorful, to put it mildly, between those auctioning their votes on line to that suitcase with $800,000 that Chavez (allegedly) sent the Kirchners last August
Argentina To Elect New Evita – Or Is It Hillary?
From The Heritage Foundation: Argentina: Implications for the U.S. If First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner Becomes President. One thing for sure: expect more populism.
This week’s Spanish-language roundup: Martha Colmenares’s roundup on the Argentinian elections
BAHAMAS:
Road Rage in the Bahamas
BOLIVIA:
The women’s civic committee of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, shows how the police have tried to repress protestors. Bolivia Confidencial posts their video here (Such is Evo’s repression) in Spanish.
BRAZIL:
Learn To Surf In Floripa
CHILE
Subjective Lens photoblog Chile
CUBA:
Leonard Weinglass’ seditious activism on the Cuba 5
Cuba, Bush, and The Lives of Others
ECUADOR:
ECrisis posts on International terrorist rings in Spain and Latin America, and links to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps
Also at ECrisis, Banco del Sur is a Slush Fund for Sponsors of Terror, Drug Running, Criminals, Mafias, Racketeers and Propagandists
MEXICO:
The Rehabilitation of Miguel Hidalgo
AfroMexico – Mexicans of African descent (via Mexico in English)
Anything but no, when it comes to travelling with the dog.
NICARAGUA:
Ortega’s Nicaragua: Another Tropical, Socialist Paradise?
PERU:
Alvaro Vargas Llosa on Fujimori’s Shadow
PUERTO RICO:
La Casa’s Leticia Rodriguez Continues Legacy
VENEZUELA:
The Venezuelan bloggers are doing a line-by-line review of Chavez’s proposed constitutional reforms. You can read it all here: Venezuela’s Constitutional Reform.
Veneuela-USA looks at
Constitutional reform – Article 100
Alive and blood thirsty (comments on the Che influence over chavismo)
Another shameful day in Venezuela’s democracy
The hunt for the liter of milk
Chavez is Adored by His Subjects – NOT!
The Prophetic Scent of repression.
The Human Rights Foundation: Artists Reunite for Human Rights in Latin America; Concert Tour in New York to Stress the Plight of the Caracas Nine
The Venezuela Connection: exhibit F, as a Royal Navy warship seizes 3 tons of cocaine from Venezuelan vessel
More at the Royal Navy website.
If you are a Latin America or Caribbean blogger who wants your post featured in next week’s Carnival, please send me your link: faustaw “at” yahoo “dot” com.
One link per blog, please.
Special thanks to Lady Godiva for her kind words and support.
Don’t miss also the resources at the Hispanic Center for Economic Research for more information on Latin America.
Others blogging on this:
The Astute Bloggers
Doug Ross@Journal
Dr. Sanity
GM’s Corner
Obi’s Sister
Sigmund, Carl and Alfred