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September 21, 2015 By Fausta

The papal visit Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

The question right now is, after getting the finger, how will Francis react to the deliberate insult to Pope Francis and to Catholics in the US?

ARGENTINA
Cristina in Havana:

Seated alongside Raúl Castro is Argentina President Cristina Kirchner. #Pope had tricky relationship with her in past pic.twitter.com/24J7Fc5bp6

— Jon Williams (@WilliamsJon) September 20, 2015

BELIZE
U.S. Targets Tax Evaders Using Belize Accounts. Judge approves ‘John Doe’ summonses on U.S. banks

BOLIVIA
Top Bolivian officials allegedly involved in drug trafficking, according to DEA claim. Secret United States indictments obtained by the media have implicated top Bolivian officials in drug trafficking, reigniting the highly charged debate over whether Bolivia is a victim of US political persecution or whether it is becoming a corrupt narco-state.

BRAZIL
Brazil’s sagging economy:Recession’s sharp bite. The shrinking of a once-vibrant economy is shocking ordinary folk as well as number-crunchers

CHILE
Chile Sees Extensive Damage After Earthquake and Tsunami. My contacts are in areas not deeply affected.

COLOMBIA
Venezuelan Soldiers Reported Crossing Border into Colombia

Black in Bogota. Reaction to police search starts huge debate online

CUBA

Wow… Castro praises Pope for using global warming to spread communism. https://t.co/OLbCwJSaeS pic.twitter.com/yRbFxAmees

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) September 19, 2015

Castro praises Pope’s anti-capitalism stance

Follow Pope Francis’ visit to Cuba here

Cubans Increasingly Detour through Central America to Reach US Soil. Panama Sees Nearly 300 Percent Increase in Illegal Cuban Migrants in 5 Years

ECUADOR
Correa Come Lately Not Fooling Anyone.Ecuadorians Need More than a New Coat of Paint

JAMAICA
Danny Glover to visit Jamaica for reparation forum

LATIN AMERICA
Andres Oppenheimer: Latin America’s new era of disenchantment; nothing new.

Ranking America’s Love for Five Central American Countries

MEXICO
Hillary is ready to fight the war on drugs… in Mexico

Leaked Permit Refutes Egypt’s Account of Mexican Tourist Massacre. Tour Company Offers Proof Convoy Did Not Travel “Out of Bounds”

NICARAGUA
10 dead in land conflicts among Nicaragua settlers, Indians

PANAMA
New Panama Video App Shares Location-based Videos Anonymously

PARAGUAY
Syrians Play Political Prop for Pepe Mujica. Refugee Grandstanding Show’s Ex-President’s True Colors

Paraguayan Journalist among Prizewinners for Defending Press Freedom

PERU
Vigilante Lynchings Go Viral in Peru. Social Media Catalyzes Pent-Up Hunger for Justice

Peruvian serial killer’s brother arrested for murder in Japan. Brother of a serial killer known as the “apostle of death” has been arrested in connection to six murders in Japan

Peruvian Ombud’s Office Calls for Negotiated Solution to Oil Protests

PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico Utility Fails to Extend Contract With Insurers

The Electric Power Authority’s failure to extend the forbearance agreement with the insurers marks a setback for the utility, which earlier this month struck a tentative deal with some of its bondholders to reduce its debt load. Insurers that guarantee $2.5 billion of the utility’s debt balked at extending the talks. The forbearance keeps negotiations outside of court.

VENEZUELA
The Venezuelan Judge Who Caved to Chavista Pressure: Susana Barreiros’s Ruling Follows Chumming with Diosdado Cabello



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January 15, 2010 By Fausta

Earthquake in Haiti? Blame global warming, and the USA

I have been reading on the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, and of course, soon enough one finds stupidity strewn along the path.

First Danny Glover, who believes the earthquake was caused by global warming and climate change:

Says Glover: “When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin’?”

Tim Blair correctly points out,

His obscene opinion would be bigger news if Glover had – in the manner of others – idiotically blamed a less-fashionable deity.

Tim Blair refers to another idiot, Pat Robertson.

While we watch that YouTube, it may be worth asking if Danny’s donating for earthquake relief any of the $18 million bucks Hugo Chavez gave him a few years ago for making that movie about Toussaint D’Overture, the Haitian slave that led the revolt against the French and declared himself emperor.

We’re still waiting for the movie.

Menwhile at the HuffPo, Bill Quigley opines, Part of the suffering of Haiti is indeed “Made in the USA.” because in the last decade the US cut foreing aid to Haiti. Of course, the fact that Haiti has, of its own making, three centuries’ worth of disastrous history have nothing to do with Quigley’s opinion.

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September 19, 2009 By Fausta

Honduras: Danny Glover heading there to help “resistance”, Zelaya to the UN

As if there was any doubt that Danny Glover is a propagandist, Agence France-Presse reports that he’s heading to Honduras to support the students’ resistance (article in Spanish). He will be part of a delegation but didn’t specify other members of the party.

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Glover made his statement from Havana, where he is visiting, along with Harry Belafonte, the UN-sponsored Caribbean film festival Muestra Intinerante de Cine Caribeño.

No word as to what’s happened to the $18 million Chavez gave Glover to make two movies a while ago.

In other Honduras news, Mel Zelaya is heading to next week’s UN General Assembly, where he counts on the support of Hugo Chávez and General Assembly president Miguel D’Escoto… and of the Obama administration, too.

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March 8, 2009 By Fausta

Viva Maria Conchita

"Chavez welcomes actor and director Sean Penn aboard the presidential plane"

‘Shut up about Chavez the killer’ Venezuelan co-star tells Sean Penn

The saccharine conventions of showbusiness were thrown out of the window last week, when the Hollywood actress Maria Conchita Alonso was collared by paparazzi and asked if she was pleased about her former co-star Sean Penn’s recent Oscar victory.

“He’s an amazing actor. I can’t take that away from him,” she said of Penn, who worked with her on the 1988 cop film Colors. “It’s just that he has no clue at all what’s going on in Venezuela. He’s been praising Hugo Chavez, who is a dictator and a killer. He should shut up about what he doesn’t know.” Alonso, who was raised in Venezuela, was apparently upset by a glowing article that Penn had written for The Nation magazine about her homeland’s charismatic but increasingly dictatorial left-wing President.

In normal circumstances, Alonso’s interview might have been brushed under the carpet. But for the first time a Hollywood insider was saying what much of America thinks: left-wing luvvies in the movie business should wake up to the real nature of their hero. For one thing, Mr Chavez throughout his career has criticised Hollywood as a medium of American “cultural imperialism”. And Penn, who since his Oscar-winning performance in Milk has become a vociferous gay rights activist, is also open to allegations of hypocrisy.

The article came out in the UK’s Independent, which, unlike US newspapers dares point out,

The Venezuelan leader’s political hero, Fidel Castro, imprisoned and executed gay men, and once declared: “In this country [Cuba] there are no homosexuals.”

Benicio, unlike Maria Conchita, continued to display his characteristic cluelessness:

On Thursday, Benicio del Toro made headlines when he took tea with Mr Chavez at his palace in Caracas. The actor, in Venezuela to promote Steven Soderbergh’s film Che, told journalists that his host was “nice” and that he’d “had a good time”. Del Toro’s comments caused apoplexy on the political right in the US, but lately even Democrats have been perturbed by Mr Chavez’s intolerance of media criticism and political opposition.

Not that Benicio and Penn are alone: Danny Glover’s already fed at the petrodollar trough, receiving $18 million to make 2 movies; Oliver Stone’s making a biopic of Chavez, and Harry Belafonte schoomzes with Chavez as often as he can. Maybe they should all get together and make an Ocean’s 11 with Hugo as the casino owner?

Readers of this blog know Maria Conchita has spoken the truth about Venezuela in the past.

Special thanks to Larwyn and Don Surber.

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