Daily briefs: November 21st

* Thousands of demonstrators protested outside of Fort Benning in the U.S. state of Georgia calling for the closing of the military school formerly known as the School of the Americas.

* A Brazilian researcher claimed that he found evidence proving that the U.S. planned to overthrow Brazil’s president months before a 1964 coup.

* Two terrible tragedies in Central America as a downed tree crushed a Nicaraguan church killing 11 people while 15 people died in a fire in Guatemala City.

* During a visit to China, Colombian vice president Francisco Santos said that China is becoming a new money-laundering center for drug gangs.

Links- Reuters AlertNet, Reuters, CNN, International Herald Tribune,

Image- Sisters of Providence on Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods (2003 protest against institute formerly known as School of the Americas)

Tags- Latin America