* Venezuela: Maracaibo mayor and key opposition figure Manuel Rosales was granted political asylum in Peru days after he left Venezuela.* Latin America: “A senior IMF official” said last week that Latin America should be able to rebound well from the global economic crisis once it ends.
* Brazil: Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega called on developed countries to “clean up their financial system(s)” in order to overcome the weakened worldwide economy.
* Puerto Rico: Over the weekend, hackers disrupted a number of local web sites for mega-companies like Google, Microsoft, and Coca-Cola.
Image- daylife.com (“Picture taken on March 25, 2009 of Venezuela's top opposition leader Manuel Rosales during a press conference organized by opposition governors and mayors to claim their pacific resistance against President Hugo Chavez, in Caracas.”)
Online Sources- The Latin Americanist, BBC News, Reuters, CNET News
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