Thursday, June 14, 2007

Titulares de las Americas

* About twenty thousand teacher’s union supporters gathered in Oaxaca’s main square to protest the local government.

* Paparazzi discovered actor Mel Gibson and his family vacationing in Cartagena, Colombia.

* Brazil’s president said that Brazilians ought to speak more positively about their country in order to decrease the negative perceptions by the media.

* Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza said he would be willing to head an OAS mission to Venezuela regarding RCTV.

* Coca production in Bolivia increased by 8% in 2006 according to a United Nations study.

* A Peruvian ship dating back to the War of the Pacific was found off the Chilean coast.

* The chief prosecutor in the Dominican Republic rejected the country’s inclusion on an intermediate list of the worst human traffickers.

Sources (Spanish)- El Universal, Hoy Bolivia, Folha da Sao Paulo, Hoy Digital, La Republica, El Vocero de Puerto Rico, Milenio


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