* Follow-up: Brazil’s government faces an uphill battle to fix the country’s prison system after the controversy over putting a teenage girl in an all-male adult jail.
* Three former Chilean military officers were fine and sentenced to ten years in prison over a murder committed during the rule of ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet.
* Mexican state oil-firm PEMEX may lose its monopoly over oil refinement and pipelines if a proposal by the country’s Senate is passed.
* The U.N. will investigate possible corruption by peacekeeping forces in several operations such as those in Haiti, according to a spokeswoman on Tuesday.
Sources- Bloomberg, The Latin Americanist, International Herald Tribune, AFP
Image- Christian Science Monitor (2002 image of Brazil’s notorious Carandiru jail)
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