Is Latin America On Its Way To Legalizing Drugs?

LAHT.

Latin America may soon be decriminalizing drug possession for personal consumption, according to experts at a conference in Buenos Aires.

Water Policy In Latin America.

From COHA.

Latin American Food Price Remain High. Up 25% from 2007.

From mercopress.

Latin American Economy To Contract More Than Predicted.

Bloomberg reports that..."Latin America’s gross domestic product will shrink 2.6percent in 2009, down from a previous forecast for a 1.5 percent drop, according to an update of the IMF’s World Economic Outlook. The region will bounce back in 2010, expanding 2.3 percent, up from a previous forecast for growth of 1.6 percent."

For The Coup Addicted: A Stroll Down Memory Lane.

Nothing like a good old Latin American coup to get my blood stirring.

It's been a while, too.

Some sources report the last LatAm coup in 1992. Others say it was 2002...when Hugo "the Ego" Chavez got bounced around.

Coups aplenty. That's why I think that I got hooked on Latin America in the first place.

The politics were always so interesting...and ever-changing.

I even quietly feared the coup drought...might go on.

Then along came...good old dependable...Honduras.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_d%27%C3%A9tat_and_coup_attempts