South America
Dog, cat, and mouse in the South Atlantic
Argentina, the world press tells us, intends to rename its top soccer league the “Cruiser General Belgrano First Division”, in honour of the Argentine ship sunk by the Royal Navy during the 1982 Falklands War. Far be it from any outsider to prescribe how a country honours its war dead, but honour is not what the move is about: it’s part of a continuing, exhausting barrage of Falklands agitprop from Argentina’s Kirchner government. Kirchner is scrambling to keep Argentine economic growth rolling, barracking businesses and workers in the classic caudillo manner as inflation outpaces the dubious official statistics. She has tried, with some success, to close off Southern Hemisphere ports to boats flying the maritime flag of the Falklands and to weld traditionally UK-friendly neighbours into a regional bloc against “colonialism”. Tensions are high and the Falkland Islanders are feeling besieged.
‘To the benefit of large corporations’
The Liberals are unimpressed with the Conservatives’ use of foreign aid funds.
Is this foreign aid?
Elizabeth Payne wonders what’s going on at CIDA.
Feuding neighbours
Will Colombia’s new leader ease tensions with Venezuela?
Ayahuasca: that South American drug everyone’s raving about
Noah Richler was warned ‘it’s like 30 years of psychoanalysis in one night’
Al-Qaeda: the world’s new pushers
Islamist extremists are assisting Colombian cocaine smugglers
Colombia under threat from Chávez
Venezuela may be supporting leftist guerrillas in Colombia