Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Daily Headlines: July 04, 2007

* Follow-up: Remember the incredibly shrinking Chilean lake? Scientists believe that global warming is to blame for its disappearance.

* Mexico’s Carlos Slim: world’s wealthiest man.

* Colombian guerilla group FARC released a video showing several hostages.

* The pitfalls of the U.S. asylum system have hurt the Haitian community, according to the Christian Science Monitor.

* Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is caught in a bit of a problem after confessing to being in a relationship with a reporter while divorcing his wife.

* Osvaldo Romo died in jail earlier today; he was one of the main members of Chile’s intelligence/torture operations during Augusto Pinochet’s rule.

Sources- BBC News, The Latin Americanist, Guardian UK, Christian Science Monitor, Yahoo! News

Image- International Herald Tribune (According to the caption “Large pieces of ice and some areas with water at the bottom of a lake in southern Chile that was discovered dried up in late May. Experts believe water flowed to a nearby fiord through a hole in a glacier at the northern end of the lake.”)

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  1. Anonymous12:35 AM

    I am not one to begrudge anyone their success. But Carlos Slim is a pig. He publicly mocked Gates/Buffet's humanitarian efforts (for which Gates won Time Man of the Year) while he gouges Latin America--most especially Mexico--with some of the highest cell phone rates in the world with total impunity owing to his monopoly on cellular and wireline phone service.

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