Daily Headlines: October 19, 2007

* Besides trying to emulate Giuliani-era New York City, Mexico City mayor Marcelo Ebard has looked across the Atlantic to Paris for ways to improve the Mexican capital.

* Illegal immigrants will be barred from U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s proposed universal heath care plan.

* Pope Benedict talked with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet for forty minutes at the Vatican yesterday.

* Over 480,000 Brazilians were infected with dengue this year according to recent data.

Sources- The Latin Americanist, Christian Science Monitor, Reuters, AHN, Guardian UK

Image- SignOnSanDiego.com (Mexico City residents visited a beach built in the capital last April)