The BBC has Brazil corruption scandals: All you need to know. It’s clearly not all you need to know, since not only are entire books being written on the subject, the Beeb forgot to mention that the Federal Police shut down the Lava Jato task force, for instance, and Odebrecht is almost [Read More]
This morning in the news: Dozens of Russia-related stories on every home page. All-Russia headlines. Latin American and Caribbean stories in the home pages of New York Times: 0 BBC: 0 Drudge Report: 0 Real Clear World: Venezuela Political Prisoner Leopoldo Lopez Released to House Arrest Surprise Concession for Opp [Read More]
Last year the Rio Olympics were 51% over budget, to the tune of $1.6 billion, the month before they opened. The 2014 World Cup $3 billion stadiums were becoming white elephants a year later. Now Brazilian authorities have suspended the issuing of new passports because of a budget crisis: The government said emergency funds [Read More]
Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López has been held in solitary confinement for 71 days, and has not been allowed to speak to his lawyers for 81 days. The above photo shows him prior to his February 2014 arrest. Yesterday López’s wife tweeted this, “Leopoldo himself cried out from his cell [Read More]
José Santos, Odebrecht’s top officer in Ecuador, has turned in to investigators videos of his meetings with government officials, according to Veja. In exchange, he received the shortest sentence of all seventy-seven of the company’s informants. Seventy-seven singing: Big enough for a symphonic chorus. Santos’s tapes must be music to [Read More]
The Supreme Court of the United States has declined to hear an appeal of the 2014 decision. You can see it in today’s list under CERTIORARI DENIED, listed as docket #16-1178 DONZIGER, STEVEN, ET AL. V. CHEVRON CORPORATION. As you may recall, in 2014 Judge Kaplan found the $9.5B Environmental Judgment [Read More]
The great Joel D. Hirst remembers RCTV – The Day the Music Died. Hugo Chávez denied by decree RCTV’s license renewal, not by due process of law. Hirst writes, Ten years ago now – ten years. Maybe that was when it ended. It certainly was dramatic. Hugo Chavez had just [Read More]
Fans of the film Gladiator can’t forget the arena scene of the reenactment of the Scypio Africanus vs. Hannibal battle. Maximus, a former general played by Russell Crowe, turned what was supposed to be a sure defeat into a victory by using a traditional Roman army defense: the Testudo, or [Read More]
Oscar López Rivera, FALN terrorist convicted of waging war against the United States, will be honored as “National Freedom Hero” at this year’s National Puerto Rican Day Parade on June 11. The guy is an unrepentant terrorist who used his own apartment as a bomb-making factory. López Rivera was reportedly involved directly or [Read More]
Who do you believe? On the one hand, US Authorities Still Haven’t Found “A Single Dollar” of Drug Lord El Chapo Guzmán, says Mexico’s Attorney General Raúl Cervantes Andrade, The ex-leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, did not use the financial system, so thus far, no financial resources have [Read More]
Long-time readers of my blog have been reading about the festering disaster caused by Venezuela‘s communist leadership for well over a decade. Back when I had my own podcast, I did several shows on the closings of radio and TV stations dating back to almost a decade ago, and I’ve [Read More]
Demonstrations for and against the regime scheduled for today, the anniversary of Venezuela’s 1810 independence from Spain. As The Guardian put it, Venezuela braces for the ‘mother of all protests’ as both sides call for rallies. In anticipation, Maduro announced that the popular militia has added another 50,000 members (link [Read More]
Argentina’s former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, along with her children, has been charged with money laundering. When the news popped up last week, I thought it was an old news item. It is, and it isn’t: This is the fourth time she’s been charged with money laundering. DW has [Read More]
The WSJ reports that, for the first time in twelve years (emphasis added), Fourteen nations plan to issue a joint statement in coming days calling on the government of President Nicolás Maduro to release political prisoners, return full powers to the National Assembly and set a timetable to hold regional [Read More]
Grieving Mothers Lead Authorities to Mass Grave in Mexico. Amid soaring violence in Veracruz, Mexico, a group founded by mothers of missing people discovered what may be the country’s largest mass grave. More than 250 skulls have been recovered so far. Horrible: Last Mother’s Day, a few dozen women, all [Read More]
Julian Assange, still hiding in full view at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, sent a letter to the XV Encounter of the Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defence of Humanity, held in Caracas, Venezuela (who knew there was such a thing?) earlier this week, praising Hugo Chávez, [Read More]
House Speaker Paul Ryan is at the border; the WaPo reports, Ryan makes trip to U.S.-Mexico border as lawmakers mull building Trump’s wall House Speaker Paul D. Ryan led a delegation of House Republicans on a six-hour tour of the U.S.-Mexico border Wednesday, seeing firsthand by helicopter, horse and boat [Read More]
misandry: noun 1. hatred of males. In an attempt to make herself relevant, the once-future POTUS emerged to make a video: The video was made for the MAKERS conference and starts with (emphasis added), “Despite all the challenges we face, I remained convinced that, yes, the future is female,” Yes, [Read More]
Seriously bad news for the entire hemisphere: Brazil’s largest criminal organization, the PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital – First Capital Command) is recruiting Colombian FARC members (emphasis added), as it seeks heavy-weapons and other expertise to help expand its hold over Latin America’s drug trade, investigators and officials in both [Read More]
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