Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Daily Headlines: September 15, 2009

* Costa Rica: In an example of the changing face of immigration in some Latin America countries, fifty-four African migrants from as far away as Ethiopia and Somalia were detained in Costa Rica.

* Dominican Republic: Amnesty International denounced proposals to change the Dominican constitution that would hurt reproductive rights including a possible total ban on abortion.

* Puerto Rico: Education officials and Gov. Luis Fortuno defended the silly and controversial decision to ban five prominent books from public high schools curriculums due to their use of slang.

* Chile: The Bachelet administration wants to curb immigration from the mainland to Easter Island in order to preserve the island’s unique environment.

Image- AP (“Undocumented African migrants listen to instructions from a Costa Rican immigration official upon their arrival at a detention center in San Jose, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009.”)
Online Sources- AP, LAHT, Amnesty International, Bloomberg

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