* Cuba: Democratic legislators and President Obama aren’t seeing eye-to-eye after Senate Democrats refused to allocate funds for the upcoming shutdown of the Guantanamo detention center.
* Venezuela: The good news – Venezuela’s economy continues to grow. The bad news – the rate of growth is at its slowest pace in roughly six years.
* Peru: Oil production has slowed down significantly as a result of growing protests by indigenous groups.
* Bolivia: Former President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada may be tried in absentia for his supposed role in the deaths of 60 demonstrators six years ago.
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Online Sources- Voice of America, Bloomberg, Reuters, BBC News
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Daily Headlines: May 20, 2009
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