Bloggers of the World Unite!

• One of the perks of being an MLS futbolista: preseason games in Cancun. (See the above image).
• An interesting coincidence: the same laws which caught ex-Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet money laundering in 2002 were also used to link Eliot Spitzer to a prostitution ring.
• Has the Vatican’s new seven deadly sins redeemed liberation theology?
• Chef/author Anthony Bourdain really liked Uruguayan cuisine during a trip there for his show “No Reservations.”
• Latino food vendors received the green light to continue selling near the soccer fields in Red Hook, Brooklyn. (Contrast that with what’s happened around the pitches in Prince William County, Virginia).
• Venezuela’s exportation of oil to the U.S. may save its government from being place on a U.S. list of terrorist-sponsoring countries.
• Spring breakers may be increasingly worried over partying south of the border, but that hasn’t stopped some students from heading to El Salvador to work on social projects.
• Paramilitaries, NGOs, and Venezuela were some of the information gathered from the laptops of recently killed FARC guerilla commander Raul Reyes.
• Are moderates to blame for the “restrictionist” position by some Republicans on immigration?
• The battle of the beefcakes: Saul Lisazo vs. George Clooney.

Sources- A Year in Uruguay, The Daily Dish, The Offside Rules, The Latin Americanist, kottke.org, Foreign Policy Passport, Chile From Within, Two Weeks Notice, Guanabee, Tim’s El Salvador Blog, Plan Colombia and Beyond, holamun2,

Images- boston.com