* Environmental experts severely criticized the Brazilian government’s plan to build a network of dams in the Amazon rain forest.* Prosecutors flew in relatives from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Honduras in the case of a truck driver accused of negligence in the deaths of 19 people smuggled into the U.S.
* The Miami Herald looked at the lives of poor Honduran children that live in the country’s major dumps just to survive.
* Switzerland’s two largest banks halted all transactions with Cuba as they consider the island to be a “sensitive” country.
Links- Finance 24 (South Africa), CNN, Miami Herald, International Herald Tribune
Tags- Brazil, environment, immigration, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Cuba, international economy, poverty
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