Dr. Darsi Ferrer has been found dead in West Palm Beach, cause unknown.
The Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
Argentina flirts with Iran as West watches nervously
The Year in Argentine Beef – 2011
Cristina “8 y ½”, in Spanish.
BRAZIL
The Anointed
Can a former political radical lead Brazil through its economic boom?
COLOMBIA
Today’s Video: Rolling for Peace
CUBA
The Tehran, Havana, Caracas axis in Latin America
Darsi Ferrer is a Cuban human rights hero
Fireworks off the coast of Cuba
LATIN AMERICA
Iran Tries to Gain Sway in Latin America
Tehran Fosters Economic, Military Ties In Region, Raising U.S. Terror Concern
Morning Bell: Iran Conducting Anti-U.S. Operations in Latin America
MEXICO
Mexico – Rising Natural Gas Superstate?
A FAST & FURIOUS STATE OF MIND
Gunwalker goes “legal” … again
Iran in Mexico and the Caribbean: Building a Strategic Trampoline towards the US
PERU
Peru’s Top Indigenous Leader Says Industry, Traffickers Behind Shaman Slayings
PUERTO RICO
1 of Puerto Rico’s most-wanted fugitives arrested in Dominican Republic
Christian Nieves playing cuatro,
VENEZUELA
A preview of October 7, 2012 (or how fascism does not lose elections)
Barbarians at the Gate: Chavista Hordes Set Fire to UCV’s Aula Magna Over Election Loss
The week’s posts,
Heritage on The Iranian Threat
CITGO’s Santa’s coming to New Jersey!
La amenaza Iraní
Moneywalker, too?
Israel Accuses Iran of Introducing Terrorism in Latin America With Chávez’s Support UPDATED on 12-9-11
Fortuño for VP, and the Constitutional question
Fast and Furious documents dumped last Friday afternoon UPDATED
The year without Mel Zelaya Carnival of Latin America, and VIDEO
Welcome to this week’s Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean. As the title indicates, it’s been a year since Mel Zelaya was thrown out of office. He and his teddy bear are also gone from his tin foil-lined room at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa.
The UN Office for Drugs and Crime’s report
ARGENTINA
Collateral damage
Cristina se reunió con empresarios antes del comienzo de la cumbre del G20
BARBADOS
Barbados and Panama sign double taxation agreement
BOLIVIA
Bolivian Bottles Build Houses
BRAZIL
Brazil’s foreign policy
An Iranian banana skin
Lula has little to show for his Tehran adventure
Lula’s adventure in Tehran smacks of the overconfidence of a politician who basks in an approval rating of over 70% and who sees the Iraq war and the financial crisis as having irreparably damaged American power and credibility. But the United States is still Brazil’s second-largest trading partner. Although some American and Brazilian officials are keen to prevent ill-will over Iran from spoiling co-operation in other areas, it nevertheless may do so. The United States Congress may be even less willing to support the elimination of a tariff on Brazil’s sugar-based ethanol, for example.
Lula wants the UN reformed to reflect today’s world, with Brazil gaining a permanent seat on the Security Council. But by choosing to apply his views on how the world should be run to an issue of pressing concern to America and Europe, and in which Brazil has no obvious national interest, Lula may only have lessened the chances that he will get his way.
Lula skips G20 summit due to deadly Brazil floods
CHILE
Piñera’s (dis)approval
Entrevista a Josep Montaner, “El rol de la sociedad civil ha de ser activo en cualquier situación” Video in Spanish,
Josep Montaner _ Rol de la sociedad civil from Plataforma Urbana on Vimeo.
COLOMBIA
THOMSON: Santos sweeps to the presidency
Platform for security, stability and development win b
Good news from Colombia, but does Obama appreciate it?
Ros-Lehtinen: Recognizing Colombia’s presidential election and the U.S.-Colombia alliance Ros-Lehtinen Resolution on Colombia Elections Passes House
Will Washington treat Colombia’s Santos as an ally?
COSTA RICA
Father’s Day in Costa Rica
CUBA
When Learning Turns to Dust
Syrian president due in Havana on Sunday
Interviews With Dr. Darsi Ferrer and Juan Juan Almeida
ECUADOR
UPDATE: Filmmakers Argue Against Ruling In Chevron Case
HONDURAS
A year without Mel Zelaya
More intromission by US Ambassador Llorens and G-16
JAMAICA
Mr Coke turns himself in
MEXICO
Mexican Violence Crosses Borders; Attracts Media Attention
Mexico Represents Single Biggest Drug Trafficking Threat to U.S.
PANAMA
Washington Post on retiring to Panama
PARAGUAY
Journalists in the crosshairs of Paraguayan People’s Army
PERU
Peruvian Franken-Corn Defamation Case Update
Keiko Fujimori Leads Peru Presidential Poll, El Comercio Says
Keiko Fujimori says “I will be in the second round” for president of Peru in 2011
Peru judge rules Van der Sloot confession valid
PUERTO RICO
Students approve strike pact. Back in the olden days when I was a student at the UPR they were striking, too, but no one slept in cute little tents on campus. Either way, the strikes are a total waste of time.
VENEZUELA
Today’s podcast at 11AM Eastern: UN: Most of the cocaine going to Europe passes through Venezuela
The report launched by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) expresses concern about Venezuela due to the existence of cells of armed insurgent groups, such as the Bolivarian Liberation Front and civilian militias supported by the government.
WDR 2010 website. PDF file: full report.
Syrian president meets with Chavez in Caracas
Revolutionary Rot, But News It’s Not: AP Ignores Venezuela’s ‘Battle for Food‘, also at BizzyBlog
Como el paternalismo crea dictadores
A radical shift to the radical left in Venezuela
Ollie Loves Hugo & Hugo Loves Ollie
Le Monde criticizes the selling out of Venezuela to Cuba, Chavez gets revenge by taking away a minor farm of Diego Arria and Letter from Diego Arria to Hugo Chavez
VenEconomy: Venezuela Dominated By & Split Up Into Ghettos
Commie Despot Renegs On Debts, Seizes Oil Rigs
Today’s Video: Oligarchs vs. Bolivarians
Maria Conchita Alonso on Oliver Stone’s South of the Border (VIDEO)
HUMOR
My cousin sent this, Por que Cuba No fue a el Mundial Los Pichy Boys
The week’s posts and podcasts:
How about, Sayonara, Citgo?
Venezuela to nationalize U.S. firm’s oil rigs
Venezuela’s fast-track doctors
Jamaica: Dudus Coke in the can
Mexican gangs’ lookouts in Arizona
Rum war?
Obama Secretary of Labor: Illegals Have a Right to Fair Wages VIDEO
In Silvio Canto’s podcast.
In Rick Moran’s podcast.