Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Daily Headlines: March 31, 2009

* Mexico: President Felipe Calderon ruled out the possibility of collaborating in joint border patrol ops with the U.S. though he did back the sharing of intelligence info.

* Brazil: Countries around the world should resist the "drug" of protectionism wrote Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in French newspaper Le Monde.

* Cuba: Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza said that Cuba should be readmitted to the regional body since it was booted out in 1962.

* Bolivia: Police made their biggest drug bust in a decade after crashing a major cocaine processing lab.

Image- New York Times (“Mexican Army soldiers on patrol in Reynosa, a border town.”)
Online Sources- Reuters, Bloomberg, LAHT

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