UNITED STATES: LACHLAN MARKAY
Solyndra Scandal Ends Green Jobs Myth

President Barack Obama’s solution for America’s unemployment woes has been a stubborn campaign to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on economic “stimulus”–much of it on so-called “green jobs.” Report after report has shown the approach to be a total failure. And now, a new scandal involving Solyndra, a bankrupt solar panel company in California, should be the final nail in the coffin for the government’s meddling in the free market.

POLITICS / ARGENTINA: MATIAS E. RUIZ, EDITOR
Prisoner

Lacking answers, Cristina Fernandez has ended up falling victim to a hazardous cocktail set by her own inexperience and ineptitude, the agenda of dark representatives from the hard-line wing of kirchnerism, and the social and security crisis that her late husband greatly contributed to fuel, for the sake of his political goals. The irony within the chaos: only the so called 'dissident' Peronism and the opposition can stop her fall.