- Autocracy Watch: Hugo Chavez will stop broadcasts of his weekly TV show until after the December elections. Also, he'll restrict appearances on the news to "inaugurations and public rallies of (official) candidates."
- Communism Watch: World Bank lists Venezuela and Argentina among top Latin American "opportunity" nations where poor kids can become rich adults.
- Great Moments In Diplomacy I: U.S. State Department uses bogus travel advisories to undermine Bolivia's tourist economy.
- Great Moments In Diplomacy II: Ecuador said something funny about Colombia, and then Colombia boycotted some Ecuador thingy, and then Ecuador said something funny again.
- White Power: Christian Science Monitor summarizes the complexities of Bolivia's social upheaval and then blames it all on "the anti-American Aymara and Quechua" races.
