Thursday, April 19, 2007

Titulares de hoy: 19/04/07

Note: As a change of pace, today’s “Daily Headlines” will be from the Spanish-language press. Enjoy!

* The U.S. Senate suspended $55 million in funds to Colombia’s armed forces as controversy mounts against President Alvaro Uribe.

* A Mexico City legislator will introduce a bill that would create a taxi service solely for the use of women.

* Several proposals by Hugo Chavez did not get signed into the final declaration of an energy summit hosted by Venezuela.

* Brazil’s highest court started hearings in a trial against 11 former legislators accused of corruption.

* Peru’s foreign affairs minister expressed worry over 7 F-16 fighter jets purchased by Chile and placed at a military base near the Peru-Chile border.

* A massive drug bust in the Argentine province of Santa Fe yielded nearly a ton of marijuana.

* China’s Vice President reaffirmed his country’s ties with Cuba during a visit by senior Cuban officials to Beijing.

* Ecuador has sufficient oil for the next quarter century, according to the country’s energy minister.

* Coffee growers in Honduras warned that they would halt production unless the government passes a law in their favor.


Image- El Universal (Female taxi driver in Mexico City)

Links- El Tiempo, RCN, Clarin, El Universal, Folha Online, La Nacion, Granma, El Comercio, La Razon

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