* Cuba: Cuban bloggers have been unfairly harassed and repressed by the island’s government and in the latest incident one of the country’s best-known bloggers claimed to have been briefly detained and attacked by “three state security agents.”* Mexico: Mexican authorities found a secret 133-yard tunnel under construction below the U.S.-Mexico border.
* Colombia: Colombian coffee growers will harvest 30% less this year according to the head of the committee overseeing Colombia’s national coffee exporters association.
* Brazil: Officials at Brazil’s Bandeirante University reversed its idiotic decision to expel a female student who wore a “mid-thigh length red dress.”
Image – MSNBC (Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez said that she was threatened and assaulted by local police last week.)
Online Sources- CNN, MSNBC, Reuters, The Latin Americanist, Bloomberg, LAHT
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