* Mexico: Mexico's Health Department will start a new program designed to push immigrants in the U.S. to provide health care for their families still in Mexico.* Cuba: Cuban state daily Granma released a photo reportedly taken on Thursday of an ailing Fidel Castro meeting with a visiting Chinese senior official.
* Argentina: U.S. and Argentine officials are not pleased with Iran’s approval as defense minister of a man accused of the deadly 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires.
* Peru: In light of June’s deadly protests the United Nations blasted president Alan Garcia for violating the rights of Peru’s indigenous population.
* Uruguay: Despite having “a reputation as the least corrupt nation in Latin America” Uruguay has been shaken up by a series of corruption scandals regarding the government-owned telecom firm.
* Puerto Rico: In another sign of the commonwealth’s weakened economy, the head of the local Home Builders Association said that over 40,000 construction jobs have been lost.
Image- New York Times (“Edy Patricia RodrÃguez, 18, an illegal immigrant, recovered from childbirth last month at the JPS Health Network hospital in Fort Worth.”)
Online Sources- Voice of America, Reuters, The Latin Americanist, LAHT, ABC Online, MSNBC, Xinhua
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