* Haiti: Advocates and community leaders plan to march in Washington this week in order to advocate for temporary protected status for Haitian migrants.
* Cuba: The Castro regime vehemently rejected the White House’s decision to continue the 47-year-long trade embargo on the island.
* Mexico: While millions of Mexicans worldwide celebrated their country’s Independence Day gunmen killed ten at a Ciudad Juarez drug rehab center.
* Brazil: Two ex-policemen were sentenced to nearly 500 years in jail for a 2005 ‘death squad” massacre near Rio de Janeiro.
Image- Haiti Times
Online Sources- The Latin Americanist, UPI, BBC News, Al Jazeera English
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Daily Headlines: September 17, 2009
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