Daily Headlines: May 08, 2007

* The price of development- Peru’s indigenous people fight with the government over energy projects in the rainforest.

* Mexican president Felipe Calderon seems to be doing a good job, according to Mexidata.info’s Allan Wall.

* Car sales in Brazil plummeted by over 7% in April, while Chile’s GDP grew by 6.5% between March 2006 and March 2007.

* Follow-up: 54 Haitian bodies were found dead in the Caribbean after a boat capsized last Friday.

Links- Christian Science Monitor, Mexidata.info, Reuters, Bloomberg, Reuters AlertNet, CNN

Image- BBC News (Tropical birds in Peru’s rainforest)