Thursday, July 12, 2007

Daily Headlines: July 11, 2007

* The multiple facets of race in Brazil, according to a commentary in today’s Guardian UK.

* Scandal in Ecuador as the parents of a pair of recently reunited identical twins is suing the doctors who separated them fifteen years ago.

* The lawyer for ex-Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega said that his client must return to Panama upon release from a U.S. jail in September.

* Canada and Brazil may come together for biofuel production in Haiti.

* Follow-up: Several factories owned by multinational groups in western Mexico shutdown yesterday after another pipeline explosion supposedly by a small guerilla faction.

Sources- Guardian UK, Reuters, The Latin Americanist, CNN, CTV.ca, BBC News

Image- latinamericanstudies.org (Brazilian high school students in a classroom)

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