* Honduras: De facto Honduran president Roberto Micheletti continues his tiff with Organization of American States secretary general Jose Miguel Insulza while ousted president Manuel Zelaya continues his tour of regional leaders.* Mexico: Gang violence has been blamed for a prison riot that killed at least nineteen prisoners.
* Latin America: The foreign ministers of Peru and Brazil met and affirmed the “strategic alliance” between both countries.
* Ecuador: Researchers believe that too much tourism and mosquitoes brought in by visitors could cause an “ecological disaster” on the Galapagos Islands.
* Argentina: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner unveiled a $391 million public works and jobs project designed to alleviate unemployment and poverty.
* Brazil: President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is making a hard push so that Rio de Janeiro can be awarded the 2016 Olympics.
Image- AP (“Police and army soldiers stand guard on the sidelines of a march by supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya in Tegucigalpa, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009.”)
Online Sources- LAHT, AP, Xinhua, New York Times, Bloomberg
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