* Brazil: The New York Times and BBC News (among other media) examined the legacy of environmental activist Chico Mendes on the 20th anniversary of his murder.* U.S.: Is Florida’s elderly Cuban-American community being exploited as tools for Medicare fraud?
* Peru: U.S. diplomatic officials are facing a confusing situation over a recently issued travel warning on Peru.
* Dominican Republic: Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez is peeved over the pre-Christmas pardons of five convicted embezzlers.
Image- AP (“In this Feb. 1988 file photo is seen Francisco "Chico" Mendes, an internationally acclaimed ecologist and advocate of the preservation of the Amazon Jungle in an unknown location in Brazil. Mendes was shot and killed at his home in the remote Amazon jungle twenty years ago on Dec. 22, 1988.”)
Online Sources- IHT, AP, Living in Peru, New York Times, BBC News
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