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Vasquez Mota, a one-time journalist and economist, has served in the government as a legislator, as education secretary, and as the country’s first female social development secretary. She also was Mr. Calderon’s campaign manager.

Obama picks Marxist dictator Chavez’s oil instead of ethical Canadian oil choosing Hollywood celebs over middle class workers. What a hypocrite.

In his inaugural address Saturday in Guatemala City before a crowd that included more than a dozen heads-of-state, Perez appealed to Mexico and the United States to help Guatemala fight drug trafficking.

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez joked about having “a big atomic bomb” and mocked US disapproval during a meeting between the two allies in Caracas. – The Telegraph

“The enemy sees weakness…” “One thing that troubles me is the fact that Mahmoud Ahmajinedad next week will be traveling to Latin America and coming up through Central America. We know that there are some concerns about Iran establishing missile bases in Venezuela. We’re on the crux of having what could be a twenty first century Cuban missile crisis that could threaten us right down here in south Florida.”

Iran has expanded its economic, political and military influence in Latin America, taking advantage of an upswell of anti-American sentiment in the region led by Chavez and his eight-nation Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas. – Bloomberg.com

Mr. Chávez pledged, “we will deepen the socialist revolution: socialism, socialism and more socialism. – O’Grady at WSJ

Mari Carmen Aponte had a controversial relationship with a suspected Cuban spy and a provocative op-ed on gay rights that sparked a backlash in El Salvador and throughout Latin America. Ms. Aponte has twice failed to win approval from the U.S. Senate, but was recess appointed by President Obama.

Marxists and/or anti-American leftists are in control of the following countries in Latin America: Venezuela, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Peru, Cuba, and Brazil.

Colombia’s president hails killing of Farc leader Alfonso Cano. Santos called Cano’s death the “biggest blow” against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in the group’s history.