* Follow-up: Passenger safety will be given more importance than comforts and amenities, declared Brazil’s new head of aviation Nelson Jobim.* Another opponent to free trade in the Americas – Australian flower growers.
* The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved a measure to add $3 billion to border security.
* Cuba’s “active” foreign debt grew by almost $2 billion last year according to statistics released by the island’s government.
* “The project is cold,” said Hugo Chavez on the suspension of plans to build a major gas pipeline between Venezuela and Argentina.
Sources- USA TODAY, Guardian UK, Reuters, International Herald Tribune, ABC Rural
Image- tribunadireito.com.br (2005 image of Brazil’s current defense minister Nelson Jobim)
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