Friday, September 11, 2009

Daily Headlines: September 11, 2009

Note: Better late than never? What can I say apart from apologizing for posting these headlines so late in the day.

* Brazil: U.S.-based Boeing may outbid French firm Dassault to win a Brazilian military contract for 36 fighter jets.

* Cuba: A court upheld the unjust two-year sentence against a Cuban who spontaneously protested the country’s food shortages on TV.

* Guatemala: According to a government report hundreds (if not thousands) of children were put up illegally for adoption by the military during Guatemala’s civil war.

* Mexico: Police apprehended an alleged hitman accused of at least eighteen murders in Ciudad Juarez.

Image- AFP (French-made Rafale fighter jets.)
Online Sources- Bloomberg, Reuters, LAHT, MSNBC

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