* Venezuela: First it was Spain and now it’s France who supports Venezuela’s desire to develop a civilian nuclear energy plan.
* Chile: The government agreed to compensate one of the country’s “top investigative journalists” for censoring her 1999 book.
* Puerto Rico: The FBI arrested “prominent Puerto Rico lawmaker” Jorge de Castro Font for allegedly being involved in an extortion scheme.
* Mexico: Mexico’s government may revise their proposed 2009 budget due to worries over the U.S. financial crisis.
Image- CNN (“Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro and France's Bernard Kouchner speak in Paris on Thursday.”)Sources- Bloomberg, MSNBC, The Santiago Times, IHT, The Latin Americanist
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