Daily Headlines: July 17, 2007

* Follow-up #1: Felisa Miceli (image) quit from her post as Argentine Economy Minister in the aftermath of her hiding over $64,000 in her office’s bathroom.

* Follow-up #2: Problems have emerged with the legal team representing Central American plaintiffs in a landmark pesticide case.

* The director of acclaimed documentary Bus 174- Brazil’s Jose Padilha- is behind the lens of an upcoming film on police corruption and gang violence in Rio de Janeiro.

* Bolivia’s government plans to nationalize the country’s railroads.

* Honduran President Manuel Zelaya called for a moratorium on the “massive and selective” deportations of his countrymen from the U.S.

Sources- Guardian UK, The Latin Americanist, San Jose Mercury News, Reuters, Bloomberg, MSNBC

Image- BBC News