Too much heavy news

Way too much heavy news and analysis coming out of Latin America this week. So time for some articles not about riots, scandals and violence (although not as ridiculous as the Mexican Dwarf Bullfighter article I linked to on the sidebar).

BBC covers Paraguay's soybean industry and Tim points out a Guardian article about coffee growth in El Salvador. I know I'm a geek, but these are both interesting articles about how poor farmers try to compete in the global market.

El Tiempo has offered to host blogs for all of Colombia's Presidential candidates. They have not created an easy link yet, but you can find them by going to El Tiempo's website, clicking on the "politica" section and looking at the bottom right. So far only Antoino Navarro Wolf (former M-19 guerrilla) and Rodrigo Rivera Salazar have taken up the offer.

Argentina plays Brazil in soccer (football, whatever) tonight tomorrow night as part of the World Cup qualifiers. Lots of other good matches going on this week. Also, Pele will be playing a charity match for the victims of last December's Tsunami.

And in some good news, Peru's mermaid baby is doing well. I don't understand the fascination with this story, but her story has really captivated the media and has a happy ending so I'll go ahead and link to it.

3 comments:

Randy said...

Actually the Brazil-Argentina game is tomorrow night. You can follow it on the Jornal do Brasil webpage.

Vai Brasil. Canários vão chutar a bola dentro das bundas dos Albacestes!

boz said...

Thanks, fixed it and figured out the strike-through function. It seemed simple enough, but Blogger doesn't explain it on the website.

Randy said...

If someone emerges victorious from the game, by the way, they will be the first to qualify for the World Cup.