Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Daily headlines: March 20, 2007

* You can run but you can’t hide- El Salvadoran authorities are going after deadbeat parents who have immigrated to the U.S.

* Guatemalan army documents show that the regime of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt presided over a plan to commit several massacres.

* New Zealand’s foreign minister starts a two-week tour of Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina today.

* In soccer action over the weekend, Melgar became the leader in Peru after a controversial win over Cienciano, Martin Palermo’s four goals were the difference in Boca Juniors’ rout over Gimnasia-La Plata in Argentina, and America topped Chivas in the latest edition of Mexico’s “superclasico”.

* Opposition politicians from Dominica want their government to reject Venezuela’s offer to build an oil refinery there.

* Six prisoners died in a jail brawl at a maximum-security penitentiary in Recife, Brazil.

Links- Arizona Daily Star, Prensa Latina, Mercopress, ESPN Soccernet, People’s Daily Online, Houston Chronicle, Forbes, Monsters & Critics,

Image- BBC News (Salvadoran kids lining up for help after Hurricane Mitch hit the country in 1998)

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