The research shows that tuberculosis is likely to have spread from humans in Africa to seals and sea lions, who then carried the disease to South America and transmitted it to Native populations long before Europeans landed on the continent.
ARGENTINA
Argentina Presents Plan to Bypass U.S. Courts, Pay Creditors; later, Argentina debt plan ruled ‘illegal’
Argentina’s plan to ask investors holding defaulted bonds to swap them for new locally issued debt is ruled “illegal” by a US court.
Companies fear radical turn in Argentina
The government’s unorthodox economic management came under further scrutiny on Thursday when beef exports were suspended to combat inflation, despite dollar shortages.
BOLIVIA
Bolivia Exports More Than 20,000 Metric Tons of LPG in 1H 2014
CHILE
Rerun time: Peru in Diplomatic Squabble With Chile
Map Shows Triangle of Land as Belonging to Peru
COLOMBIA
Rebel Attacks in 2014 on Colombia Oil Infrastructure Cause $531 Million in Losses
[The president of the Colombian Petroleum Association, Francisco Jose Lloreda] called on the government to provide security guarantees irrespective of whether a peace deal is reached with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group in talks in Havana dating back to 2012.
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The FARC and ELN have carried out numerous attacks in recent months on oil infrastructure, particularly pipelines and tanker trucks in the northern provinces of Arauca and Norte de Santander, which border Venezuela, and in Putumayo, which borders Ecuador
CUBA
Moringapalooza Cretin Summit 2014: Caracastan’s Maduro visits his master Nosferatu in Havana
Must-Read: Cuban Catholic Youth Activists Write Pope Francis
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Miley Cyrus Banned from Performing in Dominican Republic on ‘Morality Grounds’
EL SALVADOR
Saving El Salvador: Why The Vatican Needs To Make Archbishop Romero A Saint; I disagree.
“Meet the Press” covered Rand Paul’s pro bono eye surgery in Guatemala and larded it with impugnment of his motives. Paul has been doing pro bono work for decades.
HONDURAS
In Honduras, U.S. deportees seek to journey north again
LATIN AMERICA
ALBA Meets UN Security Council Over Gaza
Build the Border Fence Already!
Are we supposed to believe that Mexican authorities are keeping track of who’s crossing? Mexico Dismisses Perry Claim Islamic State Could Have Crossed U.S. Border
The Mexican embassy in Washington Friday dismissed Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s claim that “there’s a very real possibility” extremists from the Islamic State have already snuck into the U.S. over the southern border.
"They were just never heard from again." A Mexican cartel incinerated hundreds of victims: http://t.co/h2KiBto0hX pic.twitter.com/MQ5p1jhMMz
— VICE News (@vicenews) August 17, 2014
NICARAGUA
Nicaraguans, safe at home, feel little reason to flee to U.S.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/08/18/4296029/nicaraguans-safe-at-home-feel.html#storylink=cpy
PANAMA
New Challenges for Panama Canal at 100
PARAGUAY
Paraguay seizes nearly one ton of cocaine in DR Congo-bound rice
PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico to Use Old Traffic Network to Lay Fiber-Optic Cables
VENEZUELA
VenEconomy: Venezuelan Government Goes for More Censorship, Barbarism
The week’s posts and podcast:
Ecuador’s new fake currency
TSA: Illegals without ID can fly with ‘Notice to Appear’
Colombia: Luis Carlos Cervantes murdered
Would “gender mainstreaming” fix the border crisis?
Argentina: “Qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent”
The Panama Canal Centennial roundup
At Da Tech Guy Blog
Biometrics and the police state
Podcast
Panama Canal, Argentina, Mexico & US-Latin America stories of the week