Daily Headlines: April 16, 2007

* Will nationalization of foreign oil operations in Venezuela help or hurt the country? The Council on Foreign Relations investigates.

* Here’s a fun little nugget of knowledge: the profits of Britain’s largest supermarket chain surpass the gross domestic product of Peru.

* Two Guatemalan indigenous leaders had to cancel their tour of the U.S. after immigration officials rejected their visa requests due to lack of “sufficiently strong” ties to their home country.

* A correspondent for a New York-based newspaper on Haiti- Haiti Progres- was shot to death over the weekend.

* No deaths or major damage were caused when an earthquake which registered 6.3 on the Richter scale hit Mexico on Friday.

* Brazil’s Felipe Massa won the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix yesterday.

Links- Tucson Citizen, ABC News, Council on Foreign Relations, Newsday, Guardian UK, MSNBC

Image- Submerging Markets