Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Daily Headlines: July 11, 2007

Hooray! It's our 2000th post!!!

* Follow-up: Now that Peru’s Machu Picchu (image) is one of the world’s new "seven wonders", tourism officials will increase the fees to visit the site.

* Want to have a pro-immigration rally in Bridgeton, New Jersey? Try paying $1500.

* Venezuela’s government will create a special anti-drug police force.

* Guatemala’s only train service will shutdown in September due to problems with the government.

* A U.S. federal judge sentenced a sports agent to five years in jail for smuggling baseball players out of Cuba.

Sources (English)- The Latin Americanist, International Herald Tribune, Forbes, MSNBC

Sources (Spanish)- Clarin, El Diario/La Prensa

Image- NASA

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congratulations! Felicitaciones! :)

I like the Latin Americanist very much, it's an excellent source of information about everything Latino. I read it every day!

I'm not a big commenter, but I really love your blog.

2.000 posts it's a HUGE milestone. Felicitaciones una vez más, gente!

Erwin C. said...

Thank you very much for your thoughtful words. It means a great deal to be appreciated be readers such as yourself.