Category Archives: Paraguay, Uruguay

Memo to the Media Luna prefects: You’re toast!

As if it weren’t enough that popular opinion is going to broom these “autonomist” butts out of office (and a landslide is going to confirm Evo), there’s this little bombshell from off the coast of, of all places, Uruguay: Uruguay … Continue reading

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More hilarity from Paraguay

This one just speaks for itself: U.S. Ambassador James Cason’s singing isn’t music to the ears of one Paraguayan senator.Cason released a CD two weeks ago of himself singing Paraguayan folk songs in the local Guarani indigenous language.Cason tells the … Continue reading

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My head just exploded.

Remember how I said the newly elected leftist president of Paraguay was by no stretch of the imagination a moderate, and even posted proof? Well, guess what the Dissociated Press’s own hilariously named Christopher Toothaker wrote. And if you guessed … Continue reading

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Lugo comes to Venezuela

And gets a hug-ito from Chavecito at a religious ceremony at Caricuao in his honor:And if the speech he gave in Ecuador here is any indication, he will work well with the rest for integration:BTW, El Ecuadorable and Evo are … Continue reading

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Pre-wedding pants checks in Paraguay?

This has all the makings of a farce. A couple jailed on suspicion of having a same-sex wedding was freed Monday after a doctor determined that the groom is a hermaphrodite. Prosecutor Jose Planas ordered the couple jailed after their … Continue reading

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Lugo a “moderate”? Keep dreamin’!

Meanwhile, I’ll just smile over how wrong the press initially got him…while savoring this: President-elect Fernando Lugo, whose historic election ended six decades of one-party rule in Paraguay, on Friday named a former leftist militant to head his Cabinet when … Continue reading

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BushCo might want to rethink that toy ranch they bought…

…because look who’s the new president of Paraguay! A leftist ex-bishop Monday celebrated his historic electoral triumph in Paraguay’s presidential election after defeating the ruling party candidate and ending 61 years of conservative rule. Fernando Lugo was declared the winner … Continue reading

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Joao Goulart, murder victim

Courtesy of Aporrea, another skeevy spy story comes to light: The Uruguayan ex-spy, Mario Neira Barreiro, asserted that the former Brazilian president, Joao Goulart, was assassinated in 1976 at the request of then-dictator Ernesto Geisel, who ordered “Operation Scorpion”. In … Continue reading

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Uruguay scores a double

Viva Uruguay! First, on the trade front, the Uruguayan congress punched a fat hole through BushCo’s plans for the Southern Cone: The Uruguayan ruling leftist coalition Frente Amplio (FA) reiterated on Sunday its rejection of a free trade agreement with … Continue reading

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We all live in a Brazilian submarine

Everybody sing! “Brazilian submarine, Brazilian submarine…” And our friends are all on board; many more of them live next door. And the band begins to play… This month’s discovery of a monster offshore oil reserve justifies Brazil’s plan to build … Continue reading

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