Daily Headlines: September 4, 2009

* El Salvador: Rest in peace Christian Poveda; the filmmaker best known for his 2008 documentary “La Vida Loca” was found dead in El Salvador. (Above is the trailer for that film which focuses on gang life in Central America).

* Mexico: Hours after Mexican president Felipe Calderon praised the country’s counternarcotics efforts gunmen killed at least eighteen people at a Ciudad Juarez drug rehab clinic.

* Chile: Arrest warrants have been issued to over 120 former agents and soldiers accused of human rights violations during the “Dirty War” dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

* Peru: The country’s resurgent Shining Path guerillas downed a Peruvian air force helicopter which killed at least three people.

Online Sources- Washington Post, Times Online, BBC News, CNN, MSNBC, YouTube