* Cuba: The U.S. House of Representatives approved a spending bill that included provisions to relax travel and remittance restrictions to Cuba. The bill will likely face a serious challenge in the Senate, however.* Latin America: Could Argentina, Ecuador and Venezuela be “destabilized” due to the global economic crisis? CIA Director Leon Panetta thinks so.
* Guatemala: The country’s government still has a long way to go to repair the human rights violations during the civil war according to Amnesty International.
* Colombia: Time magazine examines the shortcomings of extraditing suspected Colombian drug capos to the U.S.
Image- BBC News
Online Sources- Time, AP, Amnesty International, BBC News, Reuters
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