Daily Headlines: January 7, 2008

* Congrats to Elsa Murano; on Thursday, she became the first female and Hispanic president of Texas A&M University.

* Coming soon to the Canadian market: Mexico’s Corona beer.

* South Korean auto giant Hyundai is looking at Brazil for the site of its first South American factory.

* El Salvador will continue being the only Latin American country to send troops into combat in Iraq.

* Follow-up: In December, Colombia’s newest tourist attraction was launched – a theme park at the former estate of dead drug capo Pablo Escobar. Not to be outdone, Bogotá opened a “museum of laziness” last week.

Sources- The Latin Americanist, Independent Online, BBC News, AHN, Canadian Press, Houston Chronicle,

Image- Texas A&M University