Monday, December 31, 2007

Daily Headlines: December 31, 2007

* The photoblog of Argentine First Daughter Florencia “florkey” Kirchner
is “a gossip columnist's dream” according to the Guardian UK.

* Fifteen ex-agents of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet were
sentenced to prison over their role in “revenge killings” of dissidents.

* The Vatican's second-highest official said that he would like to meet
Cuban
acting president Raul Castro when he visits the island in February.

* Remember the monkey an airline passenger traveling from Peru to New York tried to smuggle under his hat in August? Sadly, the pint-sized primate died last week.

Sources- Guardian UK, fotolog.com, CNN, The Latin Americanist, Houston Chronicle, International Herald Tribune

Image- rollingstonela.com (“Florencia Kirchner in New York, November 2006”)



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