Daily Headlines: June 29, 2007

* Legislators at a U.S. House meeting disagreed on the extent of funding by U.S. companies like Chiquita Brands to Colombian right-wing paramilitary groups.

* Is using a local sheriff’s department to detain illegal immigrants lawful? A sheriff in Panama Beach, Florida thinks so.

* Bolivia’s government is beginning proceedings to seize land an opposition leader allegedly obtained illegally.

* Follow-up #1: The governments of Chile and Peru said that Alberto Fujimori’s possible candidacy in Japan’s legislature will not affect the legal proceedings against him.

* Follow-up #2: Ecuador's Interior Minister called for the suspension of a death sentence against a businessman convicted of killing four people in the U.S.

Sources- International Herald Tribune, Guardian UK, Yahoo! News, The Latin Americanist, Bloomberg, People’s Daily Online

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