Monday, May 18, 2009

Daily Headlines: May 18, 2009

* Venezuela: General Motors’ woes have hit Venezuela where the troubled automaker will close assembly plants there for three months.

* U.S.: Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced a guest-worker bill last week that would legalize the status of about two million illegal immigrant farmworkers and their families.

* Cuba: The White House should press for Cuba to return to economic bodies like the International Monetary Fund according to the personal views of one senior IMF official.

* Uruguay: Now it’s official – the Uruguayan government lifted the ban on gays joining the military.

Image- AP (“A flag flies over a General Motors dealership, Friday, May 15, 2009, in Willoughby Hills, Ohio.”)
Online Sources- The Latin Americanist, Bloomberg, AFP, New York Times, miamiherald.com

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