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ARGENTINA Argentina Media Group Suffers Reversal in Court Ghana Ordered to Release Argentine Ship BRAZIL Brazil’s Graft Probe Now Targets Ex-Leader Da Silva Denies Wrongdoing in Vote-Rigging Scheme...
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ARGENTINA Defence chiefs prepare new plans to defend Falkland Islands Defence chiefs have drawn up new contingency plans designed to prevent hostile action by Argentina towards the Falkland Islands....
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ARGENTINA Documentary (in Spanish): BRAZIL Brazil Nightclub Fire Kills at Least 245 Brazil Streetwalkers to Take English Lessons for 2014 World Cup; RELATED: The Proud Winner of the Miss Brazilian...
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ARGENTINA Prepping The Next Conflict Argentine-Iranian relations A pact with the devil? BAHAMAS Gaming in the Bahamas A bettor option Churches and internet cafés face off in a referendum on gambling...
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ARGENTINA Argentina’s Betrayal The Kirchner government has decided to whitewash Iranian terrorism The IMF and Argentina Motion of censure The fund blows the whistle BRAZIL U.S. Corn-Ethanol Producers:...
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ARGENTINA Argentina dispatch: the troubled reign of Queen Cristina of Argentina Beset by economic stagnation, Argentines are growing weary of President Cristina Kirchner’s obsession with the Falklands,...
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ARGENTINA Argentina Signals Willingness With Holdout Creditors Former Spanish judge Baltazar Garzón is romancing Cristina Fernández (link in Spanish). BRAZIL Brazil Santa Maria nightclub fire death...
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The dead Hugo Chavez Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
Welcome to the Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean. The top story in our hemisphere this week: the announcement of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez’s death. While the government has announced a...
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ANTIGUA Stanford Victims Will Benefit From $300M Settlement ARGENTINA Imprisoned priest Francisco Jalics breaks silence over Pope Francis, clearing him for involvement in ‘Dirty War’ Jalics had been...
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Peru’s definitely not Cyprus
Last Tuesday in Rick Moran’s podcast I mentioned that the flight of capital from the EU might make emerging markets very attractive. Well, look at Peru: Peru intensifies currency fight (emphasis added)...
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ARGENTINA Argentina’s Cristina Kirchner rips British rule of the Falklands in Twitter tirade A Bit of 1984: Biometriics Used in #Argentina Today (h/t McNorman). BRAZIL China and Brazil sign $30bn...
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The rigged Venezuelan election Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
In Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, at least according to the chavista-controlled board of election, won last night. Henrique Capriles Radonski demanded a recount, asserting that electoral fraud had taken...
View ArticleEcuadorian Ambassador to Peru allegedly kicks a woman in public
Video: Racial slurs, insults, build up to the ambassador’s wife slapping one of the women, and the ambassador, Rodrigo Riofrio Machuca, joining in and kicking the women. The eyewitnesses say that the...
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The kidnapping Mexican teachers Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
Yes, Mexican students studying to be teachers are holding hostages in protest against president Peña Nieto’s proposed changes. Mary O”Grady reports on Mexico, Where Teachers Take Hostages President...
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The Memorial Day Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
ARGENTINA Are We Becoming Argentina? The Republican Party is taking America down a dangerous path. Alan Faena’s Argentine Residence The restoration of the businessman’s Argentine estancia is a...
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The Iranian networks Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
This week’s big news item is the spotlight on a subject I’ve posted about for years: Iran’s Latin American networks. Mary O’Grady has the background information: Uncovering Iran’s Latin Networks A...
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The Colombia-loves-NATO Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos got his neighbors in a flutter by hinting that he would like Colombia to join NATO, which conveys a message to the rest of South America – and not about...
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ARGENTINA At least 3 dead, dozens hurt in Argentina train wreck Tweet of the week: It'd be funny if it weren't their actual system of gov't. Cc @fausta #argentina pic.twitter.com/ramGqJvTcw — J.P....
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The “where is Snowden” Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
ARGENTINA Today’s must-read: Iran’s Latin America Strategy Repsol Rejects Argentina’s YPF Compensation Offer Spanish Oil Firm Calls Terms Unsatisfactory After Last Year’s Expropriation by Buenos Aires...
View ArticleRow, row . . . the Amazon?
Via Subroto Roy, Row the Amazon: Dr Mark de Rond and Anton Wright will row the entire length of the Amazon River in September of this year. If they are successful, they will be the first in history to...
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