Daily headlines: February 28, 2007

* Guess who’s the new U.S. Deputy Secretary of State? John Negroponte (image, at the swearing-in ceremony) - former intelligence head and ex-Ambassador to Honduras during the early 1980s.

* Democracy is most in danger in Venezuela and Bolivia, said a senior U.S. intelligence official yesterday.

* Shares of a Canadian renewable energy firm dropped by 34% on news that Nicaragua’s government is reexamining a concession made to the firm several years ago.

* U.N. emergency aid will be sent to over 300 displaced Colombians that fled across the border to Ecuador.

* Chile’s biggest wine exporter reported a near 17% decrease of its net profit in 2006.

Links- The National Security Archive, People’s Daily Online, El Universal, Toronto Star, UPI, Reuters

Image- Xinhua