Welcome to the Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean. If you would like your links added, please email me, faustaw2 “at” gmail “dot” com.
Don’t miss this afternoon’s podcast at 2PM. My guest will be Michael Moynihan.
Del “Informe Mattarollo” a la increible corrupcion en YPFB
Piracy of movies, songs thriving in Latin America
ARGENTINA
Argentine Creditors Said to Swap 3.5 Billion Pesos of Loans
BELIZE
New scholarship holders from Belize to study in Cuba
COLOMBIA
En fotos: estas son las cavernas donde se escondía el ‘mono Jojoy’
Via IBD blog, Colombian VP: Add ecological devastation to cocaine’s toll
Spies in trouble: The domestic-intelligence agency is caught misbehaving again
Video: Colombia discovers Farc hideouts
CUBA
Castro’s New Republican Friends
Arturo Magín Colomar Puig, Cuban Political Prisoner of the Week, 3/1/09
Ill Castro ‘takes walk in Havana’
Sanctions, Keeping Things in Perspective
Raúl welcomes special French envoy
Ecuador Profits from Dirty Financial & Drug Crimes
MARTINIQUE
French PM says order to be maintained in Martinique
MEXICO
Mexico needs Obama’s eye
PUERTO RICO
In Puerto Rico, Less Is So Much More
UBS in Puerto Rico Pension Gets Fee Bonanza Seen as Conflicted
VENEZUELA
Journalists in Venezuela
Leftist Hero Hugo Chavez Takes Control of Rice Plants
Command economy fails in Venezuela
Arria versus Weisbrot: Debate at American University
What to Do about Hugo Chávez: Venezuela’s Challenge to Security in the Americas
Chavez Orders Takeover of Venezuelan Rice Mills