* Latin America: The deltas for the Colorado River and Brazil’s Rio São Francisco are just two of many waterways worldwide in danger of sinking and displacing hundreds of millions of people.* Mexico: With over three months left in the year the homicide rate in Ciudad Juarez has broken the record of 1,653 murders set in 2008.
* Cuba: Could the ban on traveling from the U.S. to Cuba be overturned this year? One congressman thinks so.
* Peru: Children’s rights groups in Peru claimed that kids are prostituted by their impoverished parents for a pittance and that “various foreign bands” are behind the making of in child porn.
Image- BBC News (“The Sao Francisco flows along the canyon in northeastern Brazil”)
Online Sources- The Latin Americanist, AFP, LAHT, Bloomberg
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