Saturday, September 15, 2007

Daily Headlines: September 15, 2007

* The world’s largest pot of soup will be a sancocho (i.e. traditional Latin American chicken stew) to be prepared in Caracas later today for over 60,000 people.

* Mexico's attorney general claimed that the rising price of cocaine proves that the government’s anti-crime policy is working.

* Is the decrease in Cuban internet access due to "technical problems" or censorship?

* Follow-up: Argentine environmentalists protested in front of Finland’s embassy in Buenos Aires against a paper mill being constructed near the Argentina-Uruguay border.

Sources- Wikipedia, Bloomberg, People’s Daily Online, The Latin Americanist, Chicago Tribune

Image- BBC News

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