* Latin America: A Food and Agriculture Organization report concluded that food supply exceeds demand in the region and that the global food crisis actually began five years ago.
* Caribbean: Bad news for the Caribbean as Hurricane Gustav is expected to gain strength while en route to Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba.
* Cuba: The country needs “a new socialist program” since “Cubans are frustrated, alienated and hopeless” according to a statement issued by some former communist leaders on the island.
* Brazil: The government plans to spend over $28 million on a new guns-for-cash campaign.
Image- MSNBC (“A peasant holds ears of corn during a (2007) demonstration in Mexico City against the price rise of corn, the staple food of low income Mexicans.”)
Sources- BBC News, Xinhua, MSNBC, Monsters & Critics
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