* Cuba: “I feel even more hate for this tyranny,” said anti-Castro punk rocker Gorki Aguila after he was fined by a local judge for being “an anti-social”.
* Puerto Rico: After almost fifty years of service, one of Puerto Rico’s main English-language dailies- The San Juan Star- closed on Friday.
* Venezuela: “The only thing we aspire to in a new government in the United States is that it respects the dignity of the peoples of our Americas,” remarked Venezuela president Hugo Chavez over the weekend.
* Brazil: Deforestation in Brazil shot up by 64% over the last twelve months, according to official government data.
Image- CNN (“Musician Gorki Aguila leaves a Havana courtroom on Friday”).
Sources- The Latin Americanist, BBC News, Monsters & Critics, Associated Press, Guardian UK
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