Daily Headlines: March 17, 2008

* 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)