Daily Headlines: October 4, 2007

* The latest U.S. industry to be outsourced to Mexico – horse slaughtering.

* Augusto Pinochet may be dead and buried, but that hasn’t stopped Chilean authorities from arresting his widow and five children on charges of embezzlement.

* Remember the controversy over the construction of a paper mill along the Uruguay-Argentina border? In the latest development the Finnish firm that owns the mill has delayed its opening by several weeks, if not months.

* The Salvadoran government levied $852,000 fines against Esso and Shell after accusing the firms of price fixing.

* Follow-up: The U.S. will not renegotiate a free trade deal with Costa Rica in case its voted down on Sunday, said U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab today.

Sources- The Latin Americanist, Reuters, International Herald Tribune, BBC News, AFP

Image- Weird Meat (Pieces of horse meat)