Daily Headlines: October 12, 2008

* Argentina: Election Day may be approximately one month away yet U.S. expats in countries like Argentina have already cast their ballots for president.

* Mexico: The country’s crime wave continued with the killing of over two dozen people in a matter of hours last week including eleven gunned down in a bar.

* Ecuador: Oil and mining minister Galo Chiriboga quit from his post as the government renegotiate contracts with foreign oil firms.

* Panama: The Inter-American Development Bank approved a $400 million loan to fund the Panama Canal expansion project.

Image- MSNBC (“Alan Bonder of the U.S. signs his envelope after filling out his absentee ballot for the U.S. presidential election at the U.S. embassy in Mexico City” in 2004.)
Sources- Buenos Aires Herald, Guardian UK, IHT, Los Angeles Times, Monsters & Critics