Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Daily Headlines: April 9, 2008

* Cuba: The government proposed a major overhaul of the island’s health care system which includes closing some clinics.

* Peru: Four defendants were convicted for participating in the 1992 La Cantuta massacre.

* Brazil: Trojans be damned; how about trying a “rainforest” condom?

* Uruguay: President Tabare Vazquez has requested that the Bush administration declassify several documents pertaining to Uruguay’s “Dirty War.”

Image- Guardian UK (Notice the poster honoring famed doctor-turned-revolutionary Ché Guevara at a Cuban ophthalmology institute in Venezuela.)

Sources- Reuters, AFP, MSNBC, BBC News


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