Daily Headlines: April 12, 2007

* Mexican police arrested two men suspected in the murder of a Televisa reporter in Acapulco.

* The Dominican Republic will place armed guards along its border with Haiti.

* Over a month after FIFA head Sepp Blatter criticized the Colombian government’s wish to host the 2014 World Cup, the country’s national soccer body officially withdrew its bid.

* The governor of the province where Rio de Janeiro is located has requested that federal troops be deployed to control spiraling violence in that city.

* Counter-narcotics officials from Mexico and Colombia will work more closely together according to an interview with a top Colombian law enforcement official.

Links- Prensa Latina, The Latin Americanist, ESPN Soccernet, Reuters, International Herald Tribune, BBC News

Image- BBC News (Mexican journalists ask for “Justice” in the murder of one of their colleagues)