This week's Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

Welcome to this week's Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean.

This week's big stories: the governor of Puerto Rico claims that the massive Federal investigation on his wrongdoings is politically motivated, and Hugo gets farked by the FARC.

If you would like to have your posts included in the Carnival, please email me the link(s): faustaw "at" yahoo "dot" com.

New WEBSITE, and new FEATURE
Website: Net for Cuba International

Feature: The Cubanology Biweekly Report

ARGENTINA, VENEZUELA AND AMERICA
Slush and garbage
The imbroglio over a cash-stuffed suitcase

The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo join the circus

CARIBBEAN
Audio: BBC Radio's Caribbean Report

LATIN AMERICA
Pace of investment disappoints Latin America

HACER's weekly roundup.

BELIZE
Every time...

BOLIVIA
Bolivia's Dilemma: Democracy v. Authoritarianism

Bolivia looking for heavy investment from oil firms

Second Venezuelan found with suspicious cash

BRAZIL
If redemption fails, you can still use the free bathroom
Edir Macedo and his Universal Church have prospered by offering a religion "of results" to the upwardly mobile

CHILE
Llaima volcano erupts in Chile

COLOMBIA
Colombia Says DNA Links Boy To Woman Held by Rebel Group

Camera, no action

Colombians getting it done

Bogota opens 'museum of laziness'

A museum dedicated to laziness has opened in Colombia's capital, Bogota.
The event features sofas placed in front of televisions, hammocks and beds - anything associated with the avoidance of work.

Sounds a lot like the Princeton Public Library, if you ask me...

COSTA RICA
Scientists discover three new species of salamanders in Costa Rica

CUBA
Cuban divorce is easy, housing is harder

Church and Stare: Cuban Style

El 8 a las 8

Don't forget the axis of evil

ECUADOR
Failed and Incompetent Economist Correa Locks in Cuban Economic Model in Ecuador

A Tale of Two Cities: Ecuadorean Falls 47 Stories off Skyscraper and Lives; Alvaro Noboa Stumbles and is Abandoned

GUATEMALA
I Hate Monkeys And They Hate Me

MEXICO
Border stories

Via Maria, Tourists Shun Crime-Hit Mexico Beaches

NICARAGUA
Gearing up for the electoral season: Nica News for Jan 2

PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico Leader: FBI Probe Political
in Puerto Rico, the looming threat of an indictment may just help Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila hold onto power

Puerto Rico, Baby

Cockfights canceled due to import ban

Celebrate Three Kings’ Day

TRINIDAD and TOBAGO
Trinidad and Tobago says no to PetroCaribe deal

VENEZUELA
Chavez: Calmer, or just more Convincing?

Chavez "Forced To Reduce Speed Of March"

A new, refurbished, gentler Chavez. A new, reshuffled, more radical Cabinet

The Mighty And Their (Temporary) Fall

Behind Chávez Cabinet Shuffle

Joe Kennedy, Hugo Chavez and That Free Heating Oil

US Democrats Pay Tribute To FARC Terrorists

Chavez punk'd by the FARC: Clara Roja's son was in Colombia all along
Chavez gest farked by the FARC once agan

A FARC'ing Shame... Hugo Chavez Gets Punked

No Honor Among Thieves

The Students of Venezuela, Roaring Like Lions

The first casualty of tyranny is intelligence

Francisco Uson is Free; HRF's First Prisoner of Conscience Conditionally Released

INFLATION CLOSES AT 22.5 PERCENT IN 2007, via Announcement: inflation, crime and a second break

Venezuela cuts three zeros off bolivar currency while I watched The Sopranos

Venezuela's Chavez cools rhetoric after vote loss

A revolution? Awaiting Chavez' changes

Holy Chavistas! Venezuela Violent Deaths Double Iraq's Numbers

Is it safer to walk around in Baghdad than it is in Caracas? Hugo Chávez's socialist "sea of happiness" resembles a war zone.
Where War Deaths Are Worst

The curse of the Pharaoh

Chavez's Baby Rescue Operation is Stillborn

HUMOR
Hugo Chavez to Outlaw Capitalism In Venezuela

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For more Carnival fun, don't miss Haveil Havalim 149: The Impediment to Peace Edition, and SheBlogs Carnival #11



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