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July 12, 2010 By Fausta

The SOB Day Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean with VIDEO

LatinAmerWelcome 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:

The First Sip of Water

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’

Hiring: héroes para Guatemala

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

Mexico’s Culture of Racism

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…

Stone’s Reel Mission

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

Brewer To Boston: MYOB

So, Will Holder Tell Arizona that the States Are Pre-empted from Defending Themselves from Hezbollah, Too?

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

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Filed Under: Argentina, Brazil, Carnival of Latin America, Chile, Colombia, Communism, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, elections, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Hugo Chavez, illegal immigration, immigration, Ingrid Betancourt, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Venezuela Tagged With: Abdel Nur, Gulf oil spill, Oliver Stone, vuvuzela

June 18, 2010 By Fausta

Say “no” to the vuvuzela

Vuvuzela: an ugly name for an ugly instrument of torture.

Well, not that it’s any consolation, but one of the torturers got hurt by it:
Vuvuzela injures South African woman’s throat after she blew the horn too hard at World Cup game

The vuvuzela really blows.

We know the plastic horns trumpeted by World Cup fans are annoying. Now they’ve become a health hazard.

A South African woman ruptured her throat by blowing the horn too hard, doctors told her.

The 3-foot noisemaker has become the unofficial symbol of the 2010 World Cup.

The horns have riled thousands of fans, players and commentators with their ear-piercing sound that resembles a beehive about to burst.

For 29-year-old Yvonne Mayer, the horn proved dangerous, too.

She said a co-worker gave her the horn and she brought it along to watch South Africa’s opening match with Mexico. She admits she was “blowing it as hard as I could.”

“At first I thought I’d gone down with a bug, but the next day it was worse. When I went to the doctor, he took a look and then laughed,” she told the Daily Mail.

“He said I’d ruptured my throat by blowing too hard, and that perhaps I had been doing it all wrong.”

The forceful blowing put a tear in her throat, but no long-term damage is expected.

In the meantime, the Vuvuzelas a gold mine for China manufacturers. Ugh.

Good news: All England Clubs bans vuvuzelas from Wimbledon.

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