* Mexico: The U.S. State Department issued an upgraded travel alert for Mexico as eleven people were killed in the northern state of Chihuahua.* Venezuela: First it was McDonald’s and now it’s local fast ford chain Arturo's which has been closed for several days over alleged tax irregularities.
* Cuba: Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of Spain accepted an invitation to visit Cuba next year.
* Brazil: The construction of a pair of hydroelectric dams along a tributary of the Amazon River has angered natives and environmentalists according to this article.
Image- AFP
Sources- The Latin Americanist, El Universal, Reuters, IHT, MSNBC
I hope this lays to rest all of those idiotic comments I've seen everywhere about Venezuela attacking McDonald's because it's an American chain. But that's too much to ask. The "Western" World's selective memory and propagandistic intentions are inexhaustible.
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