Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Daily Headlines: April 2, 2008

Did anyone notice our fake April Fool’s Day "headlines"? Anyone? Regardless, let’s return to posting some real news stories.

* French President Nicolas Sarkozy offered to send a medical “humanitarian mission” to Colombia for kidnapped politician Ingrid Betancourt.

* Mexico's Mataviejitas, (“Little Old Lady Killer”) was sentenced to over seven hundred years in jail.

* The air accident rate in Latin America is double the global average according to the International Air Transport Association.

* Coming soon to Venezuela: a new form of currency.

Sources- Reuters UK, The Latin Americanist, Guardian UK, MSNBC, UPI

Image- BBC News

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