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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
Perhaps this week you heard news reports about Venezuela bombing a couple of bridges that connected it with Colombia , and have been wondering what all the tension is about. If so you should run to read this report in UK's The Independent about America's role (surprise!) in fomenting tension. (via Forexlive ) As it turns out, Colombia is basically our last surrogate state in Latin and South America....
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
From a devastating food crisis in Guatemala to water cuts in Venezuela, El Nino has compounded drought damage across Latin America this year. The occasional seasonal warming of central and eastern Pacific waters upsets normal weather patterns across the globe and occurs on average every two to five years. Typically lasting around 12 months, El Nino reappeared once again in June. Guatemalan authorities...
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Relief Web (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Smarter Travel (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Delta is offering sale fares from Atlanta to cities in the Caribbean and Central America including Antigua, San Salvador, Santo Domingo, and St. Kitts, among several others. Book tickets by Monday, November 23.
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IOL (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
With Venezuelan troops mobilised on the border with Colombia, and Peru accusing Chile of military espionage, bilateral tensions are once again flaring across Latin America.
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FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
By Cyril Mychalejko November 16, 2009 Courtesy Of "Information Clearing House" Latin America may soon become the next front in Washington's so-called "War on Terror." Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) , Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, held a hearing on Oct. 27 to investigate his "serious concerns about expanded Iranian influence in the region.”...
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西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
"The fall of the Berlin Wall restored common sense to Europe, but what about Latin America?" asks Pedro José Izquierdo — A continent where Communism lingers on . An excerpt: Populist dictatorships of various creeds have popped up all over the continent, from Bolivia to Nicaragua, passing through Ecuador and, of course, the pitiable rising star, Venezuela, not to mention the island...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Latin America's first gay marriage will be held on World AIDS Day on December 1, the Argentine couple, who are both HIV positive, said Monday. "We will become husband and husband," said Alejandro Freyre, 39, and Jose Maria Di Bello, 41, after they were given the date by the Buenos Aires registry office. An Argentine judge on Friday paved the way for the couple to marry in a first for Latin...
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Left I on the News (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
From Ha'aretz today: Thousands of people in Buenos Aires protested against President Shimon Peres' visit to Argentina on Monday, some of whom carried a banner telling the octogenarian he deserved a Nobel Prize for murder. Protestors in Brazil last week offered Peres a similar welcome, some of whom shouted at him: "War criminal, go home."
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Stowed away on cargo ships and unsure where their dangerous journeys will take them, increasing numbers of African immigrants are arriving in Latin America as European countries tighten border controls.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
An Argentine judge paved the way for gay marriage when she granted a homosexual couple permission to marry in a first for Latin America, the world's biggest Catholic region. Buenos Aires, known for its active if low-key gay movement, became the region's first city to approve civil unions for gay couples in 2002. It was followed by Villa Carlos Paz in the north and the southern province of Rio Negro....
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Leftnews.org (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Hands Off Venezuela supporters attended this past weekend’s convention of the youth wing of the Ontario NDP in Ottawa. While there, HOV managed to get the following resolution approved by delegates, which now becomes part of ONDY policy. Latin America Because Canadian banks and financiers have invested heavily in Latin America and, as such, have a large [...]
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
In commemoration of the feast of All Saints, which is a holiday across Latin America where family members honor their deceased relatives, Natalia Cartolini posts a series of photographs she has taken of cemeteries in Ecuador and Peru [es].
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
One year after the election of President Barack Obama, it's time to ask whether his ambitious campaign promises about Latin America are being fulfilled, or whether, like others before him, he has placed the region at the bottom of his foreign policy priorities. Let's take a quick look at some of Obama's key campaign promises for the region: • Obama, who had never had much contact with Latin America...
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