Daily headlines: March 06, 2007

* A new trend in Mexican tourism- offering taxi tours of areas beset by drug violence.

* Exceptional article in the town of Cabrera, Dominican Republic which serves as “a microcosm of the remittance phenomenon growing throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

* Fifty-five Haitian gang members were arrested last week by U.N. peacekeepers.

* A new law was passed in Peru that would stiffen the penalties against attacking tourists.

* Brazilian police suspect a death squad was behind the execution style killing of five people who attended a kids party outside of Rio de Janiero.

* Argentina’s inflation rate dropped to its lowest level in over two years.

Links- Reuters, Kansas City Star, Monsters & Critics, MSNBC, CNN, Bloomberg

Image- Seacoastonline.com (Aftermath of a shoot-out in the border town of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico)