Daily Headlines: October 1, 2007

* After hosting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week (image), Bolivian president Evo Morales will apparently return the favor in November.

* Brazilian officials granted refugee status to a pair of Cuban athletes who defected during the Pan American Games in July.

* During his weekly radio show, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez announced plans to construct fifteen hospitals across the country.

* Peruvian miners plan to go on strike next week over the lack of rights to thousands of subcontracted laborers.

* The campus of Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM) was named a UNESCO cultural heritage site last week.

Sources (English)- Bloomberg, BBC News, Monsters & Critics, AFP

Sources (Spanish)- El Diario/La Prensa

Image- BBC News