From Latin America, it seems the main crisis of the hour is that nearly every country is simultaneously having a political meltdown. Voters in Brazil are choosing sides, Argentina is scrambling for $3 billion just to pay the electricity bill, and Peru's election results are lost in an administrative labyrinth of fraud claims. Meanwhile, Colombia has a polite, tightly fought poll battle, and Cuba is reminding everyone that Russia still exists. None of this—the debt, the ballots, the ideological trenches—matters a jot when the perfect set of barrels is kicking out in Cerritos, and to add insult to injury, the concrete pour crew hasn't gotten around to patching the biggest pothole on the way to La Paz.