Daily Headlines: August 17, 2007

* Follow-up: Remember the “incident” we mentioned in Daily Headlines on Wednesday regarding Rigoberta Menchu being ejected from a Cancun hotel? Turns out it never really happened. (Hat tip: Guanabee).

* Researchers concluded that the infamously dirty air above Mexico City causes more health damage to children than tobacco smoke.

* This is a peace process? – Colombia’s government found that new criminal gangs were forming in areas that had been controlled by paramilitary groups.

* Caribbean countries are bracing themselves for the season’s first hurricane.

Sources- The Latin Americanist, Latina.com, Guanabee, Reuters, International Herald Tribune, BBC News

Image- UCLA