Monday, May 19, 2008

Daily Headlines: May 19, 2008

* Latin America: The Andean Community and the European Union reached agreements over trade negotiations as a Latin America- E.U. summit ended on Saturday.

* U.S.: A Haitian woman who accused her adoptive family of “repeated beatings…and compelling her to perform forced labor” won her case in federal court.

* Colombia: Army officials have denied Venezuela’s accusations that Colombian troops illegally crossed the border.

* Cuba: Cuban officials claim to have documents proving that the U.S. government is secretly funding dissident groups on the island.

Sources- MSNBC, SignOnSanDiego.com, New York Times, Bloomberg, The Latin Americanist

Image- Al Jazeera English

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