Daily Headlines: October 3, 2008

* 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