* Peru: A magnitude 6.0 quake rattled Peru this morning; the quake occurred nearly one year after a deadly tremor killed hundreds in the country.
* Venezuela: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez suggested that OPEC subsidize some of the oil exported to impoverished countries.
* Mexico: Mexico City Attorney General Rodolfo Felix blamed the police for abusing and mistreating the survivors of a deadly nightclub raid last month.
* Colombia: “(The FARC) are not a revolutionary group. They are terrorists,” said one of the U.S. contractors freed last week from his guerilla captors.
Image- TIME (“Members of a church inspect the ruins with a firefighter in Pisco, Peru, August 19, 2007.”)
Sources- AFP, The Latin Americanist, Reuters, CNN
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