Daily Headlines: February 2, 2009

* Venezuela: President Hugo Chavez condemned a recent attack on Caracas' oldest synagogue while Israeli officials insinuated that the vandalizing occurred with government approval.

* U.S.: A Mexican newspaper reporter seeking political asylum in the U.S. was freed after spending seven months in a detention center.

* Peru: Did the country’s navy really have plans to stage a coup d’état against Peru’s’ government?

* Cuba: Hundreds of Spaniards demonstrated for and against the Castro regime during a pair of marches commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban revolution.

Image- MSNBC (“A member of the Jewish community views a vandalized tabernacle in a synagogue at the Israeli Association of Venezuela headquarters in Caracas on Saturday.”)
Online Sources- IHT, El Paso Times, AP, LAHT, Bloomberg