Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Daily Headlines: October 24, 2007

* Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa made an interesting offer to the U.S. government: let us open a military base in Miami and we’ll let you keep using your base in Manta, Ecuador.

* Happy slightly belated birthday to o Rei do futebol Pelé who celebrated 67 years of life yesterday.

* It was double duty for about sixty Mexican firefighters who volunteered to put out wildfires in California before returning home to tame growing forest fires.

* Are educational standards in Latin America too low? Columnist Andres Oppenheimer thinks so.

* Follow-up: Should we believe U.S. Ambassador to Colombia William Brownfield’s claim that U.S.-Colombia relations will be unharmed despite the close relationship between Alvaro Uribe and Hugo Chavez?

Sources (English)- Reuters UK, eluniversal.com, The Latin Americanist, Salt Lake Tribune, MarketWatch, International Herald Tribune

Source (Spanish)- El Diario/La Prensa

Image- El Universo

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