Welcome to this week’s Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Carnival today is named after a new holiday proposed by a guy in Argentina – SOB day. A holiday we can all celebrate.
ARGENTINA
Clarin denounces Argentine government’s increase in press harassment
A new holiday in Argentina? SOB day!
BRAZIL
Petrobras Debt Risk Rises More Than Pemex on Deep-Water Drill Costs Climb
Brazil’s Petrobras Eyes 2011 Start-Up for Ethanol Pipeline
CHILE
Entrevista a Alejandro Gutierrez, arquitecto ARUP: “Yo creo que debiera haber un Alcalde Mayor”
Alejandro Gutierrez _ Desafíos para Santiago from Plataforma Urbana on Vimeo.
COLOMBIA
U.S. denies visa to Colombian journalist Hollman Morris, citing Patriot Act
Giving a new shade to the meaning of bitch: Ingrid Betancourt sues the Colombian state
COSTA RICA
Legislators Appeal To Constitutional Court To Stop U.S Warships From Entering Costa Rican Waters
CUBA
Hardly surprising: Spain begins to qualify prisoner release terms
At first, Spain’s foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos assured everyone that the 52 Cuban prisoners of conscience that are supposed to be released and shipped to Spain can return to Cuba whenever they like. The release was not a forced exile, he declared to reporters.
Now, however, he is beginning to qualify that statement by saying that Spain cannot guarantee that the Cuban dictatorship will authorize their return.
France offers to resettle deportees
Hollywood Mourns Their Castro Connection
Cuba to release 52 political prisoners, Catholic Church says
The Elian Gonzalez case 10 years on
Obama says: Cuba Si!, Gulf Coast No!
Saturday chuckle, in Spanish with all the dirty words you can fit in three minutes:
Probably Still There to Join in the Fun
ECUADOR
Chavez, Correa Boost Cooperation
As part of those efforts, Venezuela and Ecuador on Tuesday will carry out their first binational transaction through the Unique System for Regional Equalization (SUCRE), to reduce costs and avoid dependence on the U.S. dollar.
Yeah, right.
GUATEMALA
How Guatemala nearly went ‘narco’
GUYANA
Guyanese man pleads guilty in JFK bomb plot
Guyana recommits to peaceful resolution of border issue with Venezuela
HONDURAS
La Gringa is looking for Honduras Blogs.
MEXICO
Mexican president’s allies lead in key elections
Somewhere over the rainbow in Mexico’s elections
Mexicans Vote in State Elections
The myth that the border can’t be secured
Longer-term Impact of the Alliances
Drugs Aren’t the Only Problem
Mexique : Allah au pays des Mayas
Islamists in Mexico (report in Spanish:
PANAMA
South Korea investing big into Panama
Protests in Changuinola, Bocas del Toro Province
PERU
Peruvian Drug Dealers Hid Dope In Vuvuzelas
Catching up with Peru’s fight against narcoterrorists
Pisco to Lima gas pipeline in Peru may take three years
VENEZUELA
Venezuelans oppose Chávez attempt to nationalize private food company
VICEMINISTRO DE CHAVEZ SE QUEJA DEL OLOR DEL CAVIAR…
But Stone also revealed at Friday night’s showing in Santa Monica that the documentary wasn’t about box office returns. No, he’s more concerned about showing it through “the cultural circuit” to impressionable audiences with little knowledge of Latin America.
“We’ve got demand from a lot of universities,” Stone said, for “as many as possible to see it.” It’ll play on TV next year too, he said.
Hugo Chavez belongs in the rogues’ gallery: Compare him to the world’s worst dictators
Not so Random Chavismo Target of the week: Twitter
IMMIGRATION
Lawyer for American Taliban to Head DOJ Arizona Case
HUMOR
During the floods in Brazil that kept Lula from the G20 (h/t Roissy, who looks at the betaness of it all, I think the guy carrying the girls would have carried the day had he used a Rhett Butler technique.)
The week’s posts and podcasts:
Cuba to expel 52 political prisoners: 15 Minutes on Latin America
Cuba to expel political prisoners
Hezbollah honcho busted at his Tijiuana Mx home
Two parties win in Mexico, but does it matter?
In Silvio Canto’s podcast
Obama: we can’t secure the border
