Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Daily Headlines: January 15, 2008

* “I'm convinced that by giving to those who have the least, we will all have more” declared Alvaro Colom who was inaugurated as Guatemalan president on Monday.

* Care to find out what “socialism smells like?” Then why not try the new perfume from Spain’s Catalan Socialist Party.

* Less cocaine was intercepted by the U.S. in 2007 from Latin America than the previous year according to new data.

* Follow-up: Less than a week after freeing a pair of high profile hostages, Colombia’s FARC guerillas allegedly kidnapped six tourists.

Sources- The Latin Americanist, Xinhua, MSNBC, Guardian UK, Bloomberg, AHN

Image- RFI.com (Alvaro Colom celebrates winning Guatemala’s presidential elections last year)

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