$2,685 for one seat for one game at the new Yankee Stadium in New York. Granted, it’s behind home plate. Still I can’t help but wonder if the nation’s priorities are misguided.

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Calling the weekend in Trinidad the “Anti-American at the Summit of the Americas”, the apoplectic American right has come unhinged because the President did the unthinkable and actually had a conversation with Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez. Even worse, they shook hands. ¡Diós mio!

Well, well, well, I must say that for the first time in my life I am truly awed by change in the United States and thus it doesn’t surprise me that the American right is beside itself. If I am happy, they must be truly miserable. Let them rot in their misery, the rest of us deserve better than the failed neo-liberalism that they continue to proffer in their orgy of self-enrichment. President Obama’s pledge to “seek an equal partnership” where  there is no senior partner and junior partner in our relations is being greeted across the continent as a sign that this is really the historic change that Latin America has been seeking with the United States. As Time’s Tim Padgett notes:

If it’s genuine, it’s hard to overestimate how important that promise is to Latin Americans, who’ve experienced a lot more heavy-handed interventionism and condescending disregard than they have partnership from either Republicans or Democrats in Washington. It not only heartened Latin leaders in Trinidad, it disarmed them.

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Institutionalised discrimination which once divided South Africa ended 15 years ago, but the country is still plagued by the lingering effects of decades of apartheid.

While the younger generation now integrate freely at school and on the playing field, they still find that race is an issue.

Mike Hanna reports.

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Until the global recession, the former Soviet republic of Latvia was experiencing the kind of growth that some described as a miracle. Now, it has all tumbled down, with unemployment at 14.5 percent.

Worldfocus special correspondent Daljit Dhaliwal and producers Sally Garner and Ara Ayer report on the scope of Latvia’s fall.

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