Hari Simran - Fausta's Blog

ARGENTINA
Argentina Now Freer to Bargain with Holdout Creditors. Argentina will rather go down paying millions to their lawyers than to their creditors.

The Argentinian Harry Reid? Argentine leader Fernandez cancels travel after ankle injury

BOLIVIA
Sky transport of Bolivia: no congestion, quicker trips to work
A $234m cable car route linking La Paz and El Alto is offering clean, affordable transport to people in both cities – and great views

Bolivia Has Highest Foreign Reserves in Latin America

BRAZIL
5 Brazilian habits Americans will never understand

[Sound starts right away] Watch: Plane bursts tyre at Rio de Janeiro airport and continues to gate
American Airlines plane carrying approximately 200 people bursts a tyre upon landing at Rio de Janeiro airport but drives forward to gate

CHILE
Children stolen by Chile regime come to light

COLOMBIA
In Colombia, a palm oil boom with roots in conflict

CUBA
Cuba’s Vested Interest in Discrediting CIA Spy Rolando Sarraf Trujillo

In Cuba, harassment of U.S. diplomats even extends to their pets. Will that now change? Nope.

Nylons for nothing in Cuba

Odds & Ends from Miami: Cuba, Post Script

Arrestados hoy: Lourdes, @AGRodiles, Victor, @eliecer_cuba, @rescobarcasas, @instante_claudi http://t.co/LRPgeENO6B pic.twitter.com/hBqZ72AdWZ

— 14ymedio (@14ymedio) December 30, 2014

ECUADOR
Ecuador’s Correa to Visit China

Gas Ovens Take the Heat for Ecuador’s Flagging Economy
Induction Cookers the Touted Cure in Tax Overhaul to Close 2014

IMMIGRATION
MOST ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CAUGHT AT BORDER NON-MEXICAN AND ADULT

JAMAICA
Former Warrenton mayor behind Jamaican bobsled team dies

MEXICO
Juan Garcia Abrego, the man who ran the Gulf Cartel from the 1980’s until 1996: LEGENDARY MEXICAN CARTEL BOSS FIGHTING FOR U.S. CITIZENSHIP

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Northern-Va-Yoga-Teacher-Hari-Simran-Missing-in-Mexico-287306811.html

NICARAGUA

Ortega’s government has granted Wang, among many other sweeping powers, the ability to expropriate land along the canal route, which may affect as many as thirty thousand Nicaraguan property owners. It appears likely that Wang will also be able to seize the autonomous territories of the black Creoles and indigenous Sumo and Rama Indians, which were granted to them by the Nicaraguan Constitution of 1987.

Doubts over ambitious Nicaragua canal project grow as work gets underway. About the only ones to gain would be the Chinese, IF the Chinese government is involved – and even that is not clear at this point.

Would Augusto Sandino Support the Canal for Nicaragua?
Opponents Invoke the National Hero but Ignore His Nuance

PANAMA
Panama Canal Consortium Wins $233 Million for Cost Overruns

PARAGUAY
Paraguayan Leftist Guerrillas Free Brazilian Hostage

PERU
Peru Finishes 2014 with 3.22% Inflation Rate

PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico’s appeal in tax dispute is “baseless”-Doral

URUGUAY
Uruguay’s anti-tobacco law spurs black market in cigarettes

VENEZUELA
Jackson Diehl: Obama is overlooking deep trouble in Venezuela

New Year’s Wishes for Venezuela

There are reasonable options but no one cares

Maduro demands respect from the US
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he demanded respect from the US during an encounter with American Vice-President Joe Biden in Brazil.

Venezuela recession confirmed as Maduro attacks US ‘oil war’

And Their Ice Cream, Too