Daily Headlines: July 18, 2007

* Peruvian police said that they caught seven Iraqis trying to enter the country illegally with fake passports and en route to the U.S.

* We’ll discuss in more detail later today the tragic airline accident in Sao Paulo that may have killed approximately 200 people. Almost coincidentally, a Colombian airliner overshot its runway last night and landed nose first into the sea.

* Did you know that Uruguay is the country with the most suicides in all of Latin America?

* U.S. prosecutors want the soon-to-be-released Manuel Noriega to be sent to France rather than his home country of Panama.

* Spain’s government will forgive over $36 million in debt from Nicaragua.

* Follow-up: The same cold front that brought Buenos Aires’ first snowfall in nearly 90 years has also damaged millions of dollars worth of crops in Chile.

Sources (English)- International Herald Tribune, Al Jazeera, Prensa Latina, The Latin Americanist, CNN

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

Image- Fayrouz in Beaumont (Fake Iraqi passport obtained by an Australian journalist)