Daily Headlines: August 7, 2009

* Honduras: Roughly 24 hours after police and protesters clashed in Tegucigalpa tensions continued when soldiers occupied public hospitals where workers went on strike against the de facto regime.

* Peru: Families of policemen killed during incidents in the Peruvian Amazon last June have accused the government of doing very little investigating into the circumstances of the officers’ deaths.

* Caribbean: Weather experts estimate that there could be as few as three hurricanes in the Atlantic this year.

* Cuba: The White House’s top counterterrorism adviser said that closing the detention center at Guantanamo would “help in combating terror recruitment” yet was unsure if the jail will close by the January deadline.

Image- AP (“Riot police officers throw rocks to students during a protest at the National University in Tegucigalpa, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009.”)
Online Sources- Bloomberg, AFP, MSNBC, CNN, The Latin Americanist