* Rest in peace Rafael Tufiño; one of Puerto Rico’s most well-known artists died last Thursday at the age of 85.
* Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom vetoed a bill that would’ve ended a six-year moratorium on the death penalty.
* Argentina and Brazil will start a new bilateral payment system that would use their own currencies rather than U.S. dollars.
* Former Venezuelan President Jaime Lusinchi was called to court next month to face accusations in the 1986 deaths of nine people.
Sources- New York Daily News, JURIST, The Latin Americanist, Xinhua, Associated Press
Image- prdream.com (“Goyita”, painted in 1953 by Rafael Tufiño)
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