Daily Headlines: April 17, 2007

* Hugo Chavez overconfidence may be getting the best of him. Case in point: he’s boasting that Venezuela’s soccer team will upset Brazil in this year’s Copa America!

* Price controls are causing meat and milk shortages in Argentina according to Bloomberg.

* Over 100 members of the Mexican police were arrested after being accused of corruption.

* Colombia and Venezuela may build a joint pipeline that would pump natural gas into Venezuela.

Links- Bloomberg, Reuters UK, Reuters AlertNet

Image- Egg Blog (Venezuelan boy celebrating the national team’s win over Uruguay in 2004)