Daily Headlines: May 28, 2007

Note: Posting will be a little light over the next 24 hours due to the Memorial Day holiday here in the U.S.; a day of remembrance and reflection.

* Will the Dominican Republic’s “little New York” plan be successful or result in a resounding “Bronx cheer”?

* Archeologists in Mexico found wooden pieces that may have been used in “peace offerings” by the Aztecs over five hundred years ago.

* The few survivors of a Peruvian government flight that killed thirteen people claimed that inclement weather was to blame for the accident.

* Via Angus Reid: El Salvadoran president Tony Saca has a paltry 23.4% approval rate, while Rigoberta Menchu is a distant third in the race for Guatemala’s presidency.

* A chapter in Uruguay’s dark past is being reopened with the exhumation of bodies supposedly killed during political repression in the 1970s.

* A crash in the 66^th lap ended Venezuelan rookie driver Milka Duno’s hopes of finishing her first Indianapolis 500.

* Colombian songwriter Fabio Alonso Salgado (a.k.a. Estefano) was shot and critically wounded at his Miami residence.

* Follow-up: The beleaguered Universidad de Chile soccer team was saved from bankruptcy and a possible dissolution after a group of investors purchased the club.

Sources (English)- Guardian UK, Wikipedia, Angus Reid Consultants, International Herald Tribune, The Latin Americanist, FOX Sports, CBS News, ESPN, ABC News

Sources (Spanish)- La Razón,

Image- ABC News (Construction of a subway tunnel in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)