If I was undecided yesterday (which I really wasn't), then today I am decidedly certain...the real question is, why is this man smiling?
- With elections not looking favorable, Chavez looks to distract the electorate with more threat generation. This quote from a former Venezuelan ambassador to the UN is one of the best encapsulations of Chavez’s tactics that I have seen: "President Chávez has used his anti-Americanism as a form of government policy, not only internationally but also when faced with a series of errors that he cannot explain." Hell, he hates us so much he even goes after McDonalds…
- Argentina places restrictions on imports from Brazil and China. Is there lead in the empanadas?
- Jose Miguel Vivanco, the HRW official expelled from Venezuela by Chavez last month, tells his version of the story, as linked to by Daniel at VZ News and Views.
- Meanwhile, HRW goes after Uribe in Colombia for interfering with the judicial process by trying to lean on judges for investigating links between members of his government and paramilitaries.
- Carlos Menem is being investigated for arms trafficking, supposedly selling weapons to Ecuador and Croatia in the 1990s.
- The Cocaine Diaries is a BBC series featuring Alex James of Blur traveling around Colombia looking into how the cocaine business works. I haven’t had a chance to see any of the series, but it comes highly recommended. I’m hoping it will re-run on BBC America at some point. If anyone knows of alternative means of viewing, by all means share…
- Serious environmental disaster in Bolivia, as the heavily polluted Choqueyapo River poisons agriculture and drinking water
Photo: Foto-cualquiera.com
1 comment:
just FYI: empanadas aren't that big of a dear in Arg. Probably lead in the alfajores or choripan.
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