* Cuba: “Fidel (Castro) is sitting there, alive and well,” said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as he continues his visit of Havana.
* Brazil: Authorities arrested eleven soldiers accused of cooperating with a Rio de Janeiro gang.
* Argentina: Anti-government protestors banged on pots and pans and called for the Kirchner administration to drop its plan to raise export taxes.
* Bolivia: The U.S. ambassador to Bolivia was ordered to return to Washington in the aftermath of protests last week in La Paz.
Sources- Voice of America, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Age
Image- Guardian UK (“Hugo Chavez visits Fidel Castro in hospital, August 2006.”)
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