Daily Headlines: April 20, 2007

* It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a dirigible recently inaugurated by Venezuelan police to fight crime in Caracas.

* Thousands of people were evacuated from the area around Colombia’s Nevado de Huila after increased warnings of a volcanic eruption.

* Protestors clashed with police in Bolivia over natural gas revenues.

* Peruvian police arrested a senior member of rebel group the Shining Path after taking part in protests by coca farmers.

* Remember our post in March on the Jamaican beauty queen who stepped down after she got pregnant? So far pageant officials have yet to name a successor.

Links- Jamaica Gleaner, The Latin Americanist, Reuters, People’s Daily Online, BBC News, ABC News, Reuters AlertNet

Image- Reuters