Daily Headlines: May 07, 2007

* Boobies! Now that I’ve got your attention, approximately 18,000 volunteers stripped down to their birthday suits in Mexico City’s Zocalo (image) for a photo shoot by Spencer Tunick.

* “There are so many intelligent filmmakers working in Latin America,” observed Colombian actress Catalina Sandino Moreno in a great interview with the Guardian UK.

* The always informative Global Voices Online gives the reactions of Chilean bloggers to a new political faction that will start on May 12- Chile Primero.

* Archeologists in Bolivia uncovered the remains of a 1300-year-old skeleton who may have been a priest in the ancient Tiwanaku civilization.

* Wedding bells loom for the former leader of Peru’s Shining Path rebel group.

* "Believe in the police service and do not pay a ransom" advised Colombian police to Trinidadians at a conference last week. (Easier said than done, paisanos!)

Links- Global Voices Online, Chile Primero, MSNBC, Guardian UK, The Latin Americanist, BBC News, Trinidad Express, CBC

Image- CTV.ca