Titulares de las Americas

A quick look at some of the Spanish-language headlines making the rounds in Latin America:

• El Tiempo & RCN (Colombia): Colombia’s newly named foreign minister had to issue a quick retraction after claming that Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez is the “ideological leader” to Colombian guerrillas. “I admit that I made a mistake” said Fernando Araujo in a radio interview this morning where he also added his “respect for the government and president of Venezuela.”
• La Tercera (Chile): Problems with Santiago’s public transit system have led anti-government legislators to call for the resignation of Chile’s Minister of Transportation. “Its time for new faces to solve the problems of current administrators” said one key opposition politician.
• El Comercio (Peru): U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson praised Peru’s economy during a visit to Lima. “I smiled while looking at Peru’s economic indicators” said Paulson after meeting with President Alan Garcia.
• Diario El Mundo (El Salvador): Guatemalan authorities arrested four suspects in the murders of three Salvadoran politicians last month. Guatemalan police considers the suspects as the minds behind the assassinations though Salvadoran police consider them only as material suspects.
• La Jornada (Mexico) & El Comercio (Ecuador): Mexican director Guillermo del Toro won nine Ariel awards during last night’s ceremony in Mexico City. In addition, best actor went to Damián Alcázar for “Cronicas”- a film co-produced by Mexico and Ecuador.
• La Prensa (Nicaragua): Opposition politicians blasted President Daniel Ortega in a report issued yesterday. Though Ortega has only been in office for a little over two months, Movimiento por Nicaragua deemed Ortega’s regime as “totally disrespectful of the constitution.”
• Primera Hora (Puerto Rico): Leaders of the Popular Democratic Party called for the island’s residents to support having a one-chamber legislature. Though a referendum approved changing Puerto Rico’s legislature to a unicameral chamber, legal battles have prevented it from being carried out.

Links- El Tiempo, RCN, El Comercio, Diario El Mundo, La Jornada, El Comercio, La Prensa, Primera Hora, La Tercera